During the shoot of an epic comic-book film adaptation, the lead actor was getting jangly nerves. Thinking of scathing Empire reviews, angry vloggers yelling into static cameras, annoyed Twitterers writing “dat film waz WELL shit lol =D”, and many other negative things, the actor had to voice his ever increasing fears to the director.
Pulling the director aside near the end of the shoot, the actor spilled forth his doubts & fears and everything else that had spiralled aroud his head endlessly since he had taken the job. For this comic book source material was legendary, and fans who felt betrayed often had a way of making themselves heard.
The director shushed him, and spoke slowly, calmly and with a firm but quiet reassurance:
“Look. The film is going to be whatever it’s going to be, but no matter what it turns out to be, it’s going to be the way WE wanted to make it. Just remember that, and you’ll be fine.”
And with that, the director turned and called for the background extras to get into position…