Fox Movie Boss Says Execs Thought ‘X-Men’ Was a ‘Disaster’ and Rupert Murdoch Flipped Out Over ‘Fight Club’: ‘What Kind of Sick F—ing Human Would Make This?’

Considering its message of course he'd hate Fight Club lmao

Haha get fucked Murdoch

I remember listening to an interview with Brad Pitt where he talked about getting stoned with Edward Norton and going to the Venice film festival. Apparently the audience hated it and they laughed their asses off while the movie was booed

Murdoch should be in federal prison with his son.

Rupert Murdoch thinking Fight Club is sick tells you everything you need to know about the billionaire class.

Murdoch probably got offended at the idea of debt erasure

This is why soulless corpo's should never be in charge of the creative process

Your daily reminder of how stupid C-Suite people are and that we should all be f****** irate they make 400x, 450x or more the median wage.

Ah yes, X-Men starring Hugh Jackman, the godfather of 2 of Rupert Mudoch's daughters.

Rupert murdoch is human scum, the only thing we should be doing with this information is celebrating fight club. Plus fox did it's best to ruin every iteration of the X men they released. The only reason those movies were good was a mix of fiege going the extra mile and having an amazing cast evey time.

This article is trying to get a reaction from readers and I’m not giving it to them. Hindsight is 20/20 and I’m sure there’s more context to what happened at the time and I’m not gonna read that article to find out 

I thought both movies were excellent and they represent the types of movie that people actually go to the cinema for vs the unoriginal, generic sequel rubbish that we mostly get now

Leave it to Murdoch to be outraged at getting back at the rich and powerful corporations that keep people as debt slaves. Not at all surprised by Murdoch's going for the sleaze and trashy to win over audiences. That is still his go-to strategy with his media empire.

Fight Club is sick only in its symbolic preamble to 9/11 or rather, psyching young American males up to fight (overseas). Not the only media to do so in this time period. 

Imagine being one of the most reprehensible, soulless, heartless, pure evil ghoul, who’s willing to destroy society, humanity, and the viability of life on this planet, ALLLLL for a couple more bucks And still having the gaul to say a **fiction writer** is a sick f****** human being & while the other is suborning literally reality with gross fictitious lies all for the sake of destroying humanity & society, purely for profit This man doesn’t even bother to judge films on any kind of merit—let’s be real He was just shook and upset and confused that the s*** superhero popcorn movie was not as popular as the weird narrative driven movie Normal people try to figure out where they/this/that went wrong, billionaires just get angry and blame others I bet he felt even more justified in destroying humanity and society after this

The kind of sick fucks whose lives have been destroyed, and families torn apart by misinformation campaigns and fake news.

The definition of Typical “conservative” with conservative values thinking that apparently everyone loves the world that “they’re building”. Maybe if they stopped smelling their own farts we’d all be in a better world.

You would think that the execs would be looking at films purely in terms of probable return on their investment and not the content itself. Fight Club underperformed at the box office, but X-Men was pretty huge.

Proving billionaires should decide or influence nothing

I mean, if anyone speaking from pure experience has insight into what makes people sick...

It always baffles me when I hear people though X Men was a flop. I remember the monet I realized movie critics are full of c*** is when one very confidently proclaimed that X Men would never get a sequel. I knew INSTANTLY in that theater that movies were about to change forever and that we were seeing the beginning of a framxhise that would go the distance.

All those people need to be fired.

I remember when I first saw fight club. It was at a friend's house and I felt it was the first movie I ever saw that when it ended, i just "got" it, like somehow inexplicably id unlocked just how shit worked. It was a weird feeling. In thinking about it now, a social reset i believe is needed but the problem with things like that is what about the day after ? It seems like there's always a plan for the act but not the aftermath.

I mean he's BFFs with Hugh Jackman so apparently it all worked out.

Yet another reason why studio executives shouldn’t be the ones making creative decisions. I will never understand Hollywood.

How long until Rupert Murdoch finally croaks, or is he going to achieve immortality?

I often wonder what it would’ve it been like working at the studio during the Mechanic era, having started working at TCF a few years afterwards. In addition to ID4, Titanic, X-Men, he also brought back Star Wars in 1999 with Phantom Menace. That era was willing to take expensive and/or creative risks. During the late 2000’s and early 2010’s it was all about cost containment. Sure, Fox made high priced tentpoles, but if it came down to spending an extra 5 or 10 million to make a better film, they wouldn’t do it. And speaking of 20th Century Fox, that merger with Disney should’ve never have happened. Everyone in the industry is up in arms about the Paramount/WB merger, but the outrage and reaction for Disney buying 20th Century Fox was never this strong. Maybe people in Hollywood were just glad that Murdoch was in charge of one less aspect of the media. Or Marvel fans were glad Marvel was getting the X-Men franchise back, which by the way, they haven’t really done much with outside of Deadpool. In the end, less movies got made, and it cost people their jobs.

Looking how the fandoms turned out, he’s kinda right

This just made me remember that I saw Fight Club for the first time, stupid and young and not aware it was satire, on TV waiting for what the interwebs said would be the world premiere of the Xmen trailer.

I was 13 when X-Men came out and I thought it was pretty dumb even then

An even better question is how many sick f****** humans really vibed with Fight Club. Not that I’d know anything about the movie, ofc.

Tbf after Invisible Monsters wasnt picked up and was called too disturbing Chuck P wrote Fight Club in an effort to be more disturbing intentionally and it turned out to be his first big hit,

He founded a news station where the head guy organized it basically as an environment to sexually harass the employees. But fight club is what he found shocking. 

Poopert Turdcock 

They rarely know what the hell they’re talking about. I blame them for the DC universe to be so far behind. WB execs could never get their shit together on what they wanted out of it and caused so much bs with creators

Fox to dumb for you

“Sick F** Human” ohhh man the irony

Murdoch: "What kind of sick f****** human would make this." Me: "David Fincher, he's the best we've got."

Proceeds to rot the brains of an entire generation with hateful propaganda - muttering “sick fucks”

Rupert Murdoch probably got scared thinking it would cause a class revolution but instead it helped his ilk because people are stupid.

god I hate these people, I hate them so f****** much

Fwiw, at least back then a movie like that could get made and the worse thing to happen was a rich, powerful person took umbridge with it. Notice how there's almost no new entertainment that addresses important issues anymore, and when they do on social media, their websites and patreons get deleted?

X Men was pretty trash.