After I spoke with author/director Christopher Landon about “We Have a Ghost,” he talked about there was a bigger set piece he had written “that acquired minimize out as a result of there was no manner we might afford to do it.” After I requested him to explain that scene, he laid out what his plan was, and why Netflix made him minimize it out of the film:
“When Ernest escapes from the CIA, there was an enormous chase set piece that had him leaping by the wall of a subway prepare, using that, freaking everybody out, and folks cheering once they see him within the subway, to him getting out of there and operating by site visitors. And he ran up a staircase and leaped by the third flooring, a wall, flew by the air, landed by the roof of a Brinks truck, acquired chased by extra automobiles within the Brinks truck. He threw the doorways open, threw all the cash out, had crowds of individuals operating in … It was all this loopy s***. And Netflix was like, ‘Yeah, no, you make this manner too costly.'”
For a few years, Netflix was seen because the studio the place cash nearly did not matter and big-name filmmakers might get astronomical budgets for eye-catching tasks. However after the streamer’s inventory worth took a significant hit in 2022, inflicting ripple results that considerably impacted all the leisure trade, Netflix’s devil-may-care spending habits have evidently been curbed a bit. It stays to be seen how these harsh financial realities will have an effect on upcoming productions, however we’ll be right here to doc it because it occurs.
“We Have a Ghost” is presently streaming on Netflix.