So there’s a little bittersweet news today, folks.  I’ve always had a fondness for boat movies, undersea movies and suchlike, and I definitely liked the whole Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea concept.  So when a remake of same was announced, I was somewhat happy about the whole thing.

At least until they told me McG was directing it.  And then I had a problem with the whole thing…but the irony is that I needn’t have a problem with it any more.

See, it seems that McG decided he wasn’t going to have anything more to do with the remake, and thus, he walked away.  And when he did that, Disney decided to shut down the whole program.

The big problem here, of course, is that McG is pretty much a tainted director now since the lesser performance of Terminator Salvation, and the fact that filming an underwater epic like Twenty Thousand Leages Under the Sea would necessarily have to be would cost money like no tomorrow in really lousy economic conditions and be only remotely guaranteed returns (it’s a known quantity but nothing’s been done with it in decades), they just didn’t have much choice.

So hopefully McG can find work again, but if nothing else, he probably made enough cash to not have to worry about work for a while.  Maybe he can go write a biopic or a chick flick or something, something really out of left field