>2013 - David F. Sandberg is a poor AF freelancer in Sweden doing animations and videos to local companies for peanuts, decides to start making horror short films with his wife using a camera he had bought with the public money he got for some documentary about some tranny immigrant, makes a 3 minute horror short film "Lights Out" and posts it online
>2014 - Lights Out goes viral and gets millions of views, Hollywood suits fill his email inbox, one producer wants to turn Lights Out into a feature film with Sandberg directing even though he hasn't even been to a film set before, Sandberg gets flown to LA with his wife and starts working on the script with James Wan and Eric Heisserer (Arrival)
>2016 - feature film version of Lights Out is released and makes 150 million on a 5 million dollar budget, Sandberg is already directing a sequel to the first Annabelle film because the suits loved his work on Lights Out
>2017 - Annabelle sequel is released to critical and commercial acclaim (over 305 million at the box office), Sandberg is offered Shazam! and he signs on in July
>2019 - Shazam is released and previews from critics are glowing with praise, many hope that it will be the savior of DC films
Director of Shazam! career progress is insane
>2018 - Has his ass ravaged in turn by Jay Baumann and Mike Stoklasa.
That sounds amazing
guess he sucks dick good
The hack frauds were on point when they said this was the new hollywood trend, grabbing indie directors who had a surprise hit and immediately put them in charge of a huge franchise movie, all to very mixed results.
well, he's a jew and james wan's protege
He's not Jewish. But maybe the Hollyjews thought he is because of -berg.
Damn, Jay is ruthless.
Who?
>manchild director of antiart numale garbage likes rlm
amazing
the shitposting is already written
Based Bauman.
And I don't know who this writer guy was nor am I going to defend him, but Arrival was based on a very good short story, so half the work was done already, and in fact some of the shit they made up for the movie was the weakest parts (namely the Chinese subplot), but it had Villanueve at the helm and he probably fought to keep the story as pure as possible, while The Thing and Nightmare on the other hand felt like the movies were noted to hell and back by dumbfuck executives and they had to follow suit.
>Gentiles are taking on Jewish names to keep from being kicked out.
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
>Sandberg is a Swedish surname, meaning "Sand Mountain"
>As of 2014, 46.4% of all known bearers of the surname Sandberg were residents of Sweden (frequency 1:540), 30.7% of the United States (1:29,945), 6.6% of Norway (1:1,976), 4.6% of Finland (1:3,032), 4.3% of Denmark (1:3,354), 2.2% of Canada (1:41,674) and 1.2% of Germany (1:167,842)
>while The Thing and Nightmare on the other hand felt like the movies were noted to hell and back by dumbfuck executives and they had to follow suit
This is actually why Heisserer optioned the short story that Arrival was based on by himself, wrote the script on his own without anyone paying for it and then insisted on being a producer on the film so he could keep jewsuits from fucking up the film. Then Villeneuve basically shot the script like it was written.
it pays to know how to work with people
Cheap-ass horror movies are the best path to Hollywood success.
Pretty much, Fede Alvarez got in the same way.
Lol. Ask and thall shall return videotape without rewind
The short story anthology Arrival came from has the deepest writing you'll ever read. There's one with a war between regular dudes who take so much alien Adderall they become warring Gods on Earth.
What's next for Sandberg? He made (((Levine))) a superstar now so he do whatever he wants
>(((Levine)))
He's not jewish
Yeah. Also the two new Godzilla directors (Michael Dougherty and Adam Wingard) both started making horror films. And so did Aquaman director James Wan. And James Gunn. And many others.
Not exactly. Dude was getting millions of views for his shorts on YouTube as far back as 2006. He was offered many jobs (took one as a consultant) and sold a series in 2011.
To say he went from a struggling nobody in 2013 to Shazam director in 2018 is not accurate.
Are you sure those millions of views didn't come AFTER he became a Hollywood director? And the Swedish animated documentary series that he sold was exactly the kind of no-budget DIY shit for peanuts that I was talking about.
He WAS a struggling nobody dealing with financial problems and depression.