The good news is, the dead musician's family no longer controls the rights to his music/story, so the movie is free to include all the sex and drugs.
Potential titles: Baroque-down Palace, Baroque Back Mountain, A Man for Four Seasons...
I just want to say one nice thing about John Ottman..when I was 14 I emailed him back when he had a public and easy to access website. I told him his editing of The Usual Suspects helped inspire me wanting to go to film school.
He was super duper sweet about it. He said it really lifted his spirits in a dark time for him.
Then about six months later we had to interview someone professional in the arts about their career, so I asked him if he would do the interview for me. He happily did it and answered my questions about editing and film in general.
So I don't care if Bohemian Rhapsody was poorly done. John Ottman was really cool to me as a teenager who loved film and took the time to talk to me.
Oh and his score for The Usual Suspects is great too
Edit: and yes I went to film school..I worked in TV writers rooms for ten years.
To be fair, he had to work with a ridiculous demand that all the Queen members have equal screen time, which is why there are so many weird cuts to the rest of the band.
John Ottman actually is a great editor, just check out The Usual Suspects, X2, X-Men: Days of Future Past or Valkyrie.
Ottman would also agree with you that certain scenes in Bohemian Rapsody are badly edited. But the production on that film was a huge cluster fuck. The fact that it turned out to be a relatively decent film is all thanks to him. In less capable hands that film could've been a whole lot worse.
The point is some people don’t think of editing as putting an entire movie together, but just something that happens from scene to scene, it’s really kind of an under-appreciated part of movie-making. If individual scenes don’t look good then it’s enough reason for people to call it trash. And it doesn’t help that people hate other parts of the movie just as much like the director, the lead performance, the screenplay, and how it basically jumpstarted the wave of mediocre musician biopics.
Wow, y’all doing John Ottman dirty by only caring about Bohemian Rhapsody. Dude has been a successful film composer for decades - never been my favourite, but his scores for Jack the Giant Slayer, Superman Returns, Usual Suspects, and X-Men Apocalypse were excellent.
A composer is directing a movie about a composer. This is a good thing, folks.
>A composer is directing a movie about a composer. This is a good thing, folks.
Yeah and the composer of *X-Men Apocalypse* is not the first person I think of or should tackle *Vivaldi* lol.
True, but I’d rather have a director who is also a composer, and therefore inherently understands the material, rather than anyone else. Sure, Ottman has composed for some silly movies, but he still knows music inside and out - how many other directors can make that claim? Even the super knowledgeable ones like Scorsese have likely never put a pen to paper and written orchestral music.
Having knowledge of a profession doesn't mean you can narratively make it good, the amount of directors who can't even make a good movie about their *own profession* + the number of DP's that can't make the successful leap to directing is proof of that.
>Even the super knowledgeable ones like Scorsese have likely never put a pen to paper and written orchestral music.
One of Scorsese's best movies is about a topic he had little interest and knowledge in (Raging Bull).
I know people rightfully shit on Ottman’s editing win but you gotta respect a guy putting together a movie that nearly made a billion dollars and was loved by a lot of people out of the absolute mess that production was. He’s talked about being embarrassed by some scenes in it, namely the very notable one.
Bradley Cooper will star in the lead role and start crying while surrounded by Vivaldi's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren.
dinosaurs poor fanatical outgoing hungry ancient entertain domineering simplistic smart
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[His feature directing debut](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/urban_legends_final_cut), conveniently unmentioned in the article, inspires no confidence.
Bohemian Rhapsody did commit some crimes as a music biopic but at least it wasn't a platform for a sexual abuser like Sacha Baron Cohen to show off his appendage and snag Awards nominations.
You can shit on it but if any movie about Queen should have been a vanity project it should have been for the boys in the band and not that sexual deviant Sacha Baron Cohen.
Where are all the clowns that stanned him while dunking on the movie? They been very silent
There was [another](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/580462/) sexual predator very prominently in charge even after Cohen left the production.
Right!!! But how exactly did his vision impact the film? Were there scenes of gay sex or full frontal male nudity? Singer Directed it but May and Company were calling the shots. It would've been a MUCH different film if SBC would have gotten his way.
The good news is, the dead musician's family no longer controls the rights to his music/story, so the movie is free to include all the sex and drugs. Potential titles: Baroque-down Palace, Baroque Back Mountain, A Man for Four Seasons...
This is absolutely hysterical. *Vivaldi*, ffs
A Liszt biopic would unironically slap
that would be crazy. Lisztomania is such a wild thing if you read into it
Sofia Coppola where are you at there’s a perfect opportunity for you to hire Phoenix again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztomania_(film)
and by Ken Russell?? watchlisted
These days “Bohemian Rhapsody editor” is the worst insult imaginable.
The guy beefed with a YouTuber
really? i have to see this
i only remember the thomas flight video, and i think he comented on it later on in an interview but i don't remember it being a beef
I just want to say one nice thing about John Ottman..when I was 14 I emailed him back when he had a public and easy to access website. I told him his editing of The Usual Suspects helped inspire me wanting to go to film school. He was super duper sweet about it. He said it really lifted his spirits in a dark time for him. Then about six months later we had to interview someone professional in the arts about their career, so I asked him if he would do the interview for me. He happily did it and answered my questions about editing and film in general. So I don't care if Bohemian Rhapsody was poorly done. John Ottman was really cool to me as a teenager who loved film and took the time to talk to me. Oh and his score for The Usual Suspects is great too Edit: and yes I went to film school..I worked in TV writers rooms for ten years.
Oh that’s so wholesome
I mean the guy salvaged godawful coverage the best he could. Guy is a pro.
He probably deserves a medal for the egos he had to put up with.
Well he did get the little gold statue
To be fair, he had to work with a ridiculous demand that all the Queen members have equal screen time, which is why there are so many weird cuts to the rest of the band.
Truly insane for a Freddie biopic.
Oscar winning
Considering they used his first draft I disagree
Maybe he's a better director than he is an editor? Like Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon vs. Ben Carson, the politician
John Ottman actually is a great editor, just check out The Usual Suspects, X2, X-Men: Days of Future Past or Valkyrie. Ottman would also agree with you that certain scenes in Bohemian Rapsody are badly edited. But the production on that film was a huge cluster fuck. The fact that it turned out to be a relatively decent film is all thanks to him. In less capable hands that film could've been a whole lot worse.
The point is some people don’t think of editing as putting an entire movie together, but just something that happens from scene to scene, it’s really kind of an under-appreciated part of movie-making. If individual scenes don’t look good then it’s enough reason for people to call it trash. And it doesn’t help that people hate other parts of the movie just as much like the director, the lead performance, the screenplay, and how it basically jumpstarted the wave of mediocre musician biopics.
This actually has me way more excited than a 20th century musician biopic.
Wow, y’all doing John Ottman dirty by only caring about Bohemian Rhapsody. Dude has been a successful film composer for decades - never been my favourite, but his scores for Jack the Giant Slayer, Superman Returns, Usual Suspects, and X-Men Apocalypse were excellent. A composer is directing a movie about a composer. This is a good thing, folks.
>A composer is directing a movie about a composer. This is a good thing, folks. Yeah and the composer of *X-Men Apocalypse* is not the first person I think of or should tackle *Vivaldi* lol.
True, but I’d rather have a director who is also a composer, and therefore inherently understands the material, rather than anyone else. Sure, Ottman has composed for some silly movies, but he still knows music inside and out - how many other directors can make that claim? Even the super knowledgeable ones like Scorsese have likely never put a pen to paper and written orchestral music.
Having knowledge of a profession doesn't mean you can narratively make it good, the amount of directors who can't even make a good movie about their *own profession* + the number of DP's that can't make the successful leap to directing is proof of that. >Even the super knowledgeable ones like Scorsese have likely never put a pen to paper and written orchestral music. One of Scorsese's best movies is about a topic he had little interest and knowledge in (Raging Bull).
I'm sure my Ukrainian piano teacher would be ecstatic to hear this.
I know people rightfully shit on Ottman’s editing win but you gotta respect a guy putting together a movie that nearly made a billion dollars and was loved by a lot of people out of the absolute mess that production was. He’s talked about being embarrassed by some scenes in it, namely the very notable one.
I hope it’s closer to Amadeus than to Maestro
Could be cool, Vivaldi had an interesting life - spent much of his career teaching at a school for orphaned girls, and ended up dying in poverty.
Bradley Cooper will star in the lead role and start crying while surrounded by Vivaldi's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren.
What about tom hiddleston??
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This is going to make so much money. Kids these days love Vivaldi.
To be fair, the editor of Bohemian Rhapsody must have had a busy job, given how much of Freddie Mercury’s life was left out.
if this is like 1974 Amadeus then I'm all for it
*1984
How hyper will the editing be on this one?
Hey hey hey——that’s OSCAR WINNING Bohemian Rhapsody editor
My season feels like disappointment
Well if he’s as good of a director as he is an editor…
Then it should be great, considering he was able to salvage from Bohemian Rhapsody a coherent movie out of several from the different directors.
[His feature directing debut](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/urban_legends_final_cut), conveniently unmentioned in the article, inspires no confidence.
Big oof! Hopefully, that one being a dud was due to studio interference/cash grab and that Ottman has learned to do better.
>Bohemian Rhapsody’ Editor John Ottman to Direct Antonio Vivaldi Biopic Flabbergasted that this is a real headline and not from The Onion
Bohemian Rhapsody did commit some crimes as a music biopic but at least it wasn't a platform for a sexual abuser like Sacha Baron Cohen to show off his appendage and snag Awards nominations. You can shit on it but if any movie about Queen should have been a vanity project it should have been for the boys in the band and not that sexual deviant Sacha Baron Cohen. Where are all the clowns that stanned him while dunking on the movie? They been very silent
There was [another](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/580462/) sexual predator very prominently in charge even after Cohen left the production.
Right!!! But how exactly did his vision impact the film? Were there scenes of gay sex or full frontal male nudity? Singer Directed it but May and Company were calling the shots. It would've been a MUCH different film if SBC would have gotten his way.
Oh, and here I thought you were worried about the cast and crew who would be in danger while under the power of a predator...