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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8260242" data-attributes="member: 18">I think [USER=83242]@dave2008[/USER] has a point re: writing, simply because looking at where medium-to-big budget movies fall down, 2010-present, it is very much usually in the writing, and even good writers often have bad scripts. For example, the same guy wrote the script for Arrival and the script for Bird Box, and not long apart either. Arrival was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars, and Bird Box... well... also an adapted screenplay... and not a good one. Yet then he went on to be showrunner and one of the writers for recent Netflix Shadow and Bone adaptation (if anyone needs an "Eberron" show there you have something close), which is solidly better than the book its based on. Or look at the same guy writing the final draft on Prometheus (appalling tosh) and the Watchman TV series (somehow about as good as the original, astonishing comic series). Indeed he's done a lot of "Ooof bad" and "Wow great" stuff. This is very much not how it was in the 1990s, say, where a lot more movies got let down by terrible acting or bizarre directorial choices.If we're looking at point of failure, and you have experienced writers, actors, and director, writers are the most likely point of failure.</blockquote>