Dean Devlin

that'd be terrific.

so there's quite a few disaster movies for all I know but that tends to be his niche and he produces a guy called Dean Devlin and he does lots of various stuff as well so quite a lot of sci-fi he

likes the explosions oh Godzilla

Yeah, I

think that's probably a growing movement now.

Yeah, I thought you'd enjoy that one.

When Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich first pitched the film's idea around different studios, they purposely did not send their treatment to MGM, who had distributed their previous film Stargate, which was 94, but had since obtained franchise rights and kept them out of a proposed TV series adaptation.

Their concept was described as War of the Worlds meets Pulp Fiction.

Moving on from there, a rather surprising film that initially was going to get military support but the Department of Defense ultimately pulled out of was the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.

As to why, writer Dean Devlin states, their one demand was that we remove Area 51 from the film, and we didn't want to do that.

so they withdrew their support in a slightly more humorous example according to david rob's 2004 book operation hollywood in the james bond film goldeneye the department of defense demanded the nationality of admiral chuck farrell be changed from a u.s admiral to a different nation owing to perceived incompetence the studio acquiesced and made him french the problem was the studio was also getting help from the french military GoldenEye screenwriter Bruce Fairstein stated of this, When the French lent us the boat, they wanted to make sure that the French military was in no way made to look bad.

When they lend you the toys, they want some say in how the toys are used.

That was the original thing.

Then Emmerich and Dean Devlin and Andrew Davis got hold of it and changed it, basically.

And then... it's noted that basically Emmerich was rewriting it as they were making it.

So it literally was being written as they went.

director of Geostorm is, right? No.

Is Dean Devlin the director of Stargate? independence

day um the original stargate movie the original stargate the one who hated fucking sg1 and atlantis and all of that yeah

godzilla like he he's done a bunch of that stuff but yeah i'm a sucker for the gerard butler like disaster movies i watch every white house down whatever i

On the special effects and all this, neither here nor there.

But there was an interview with the guy who directed one of the directors, Dean Devlin, of Independence Day.

And they were talking about movies in 1982, what a great year that was for movies.

And so this is a long-winded way to try to give you an analogy.

And, you know, we turned it into this gigantic cultural phenomenon.

And I took Dean Devlin out there.

you know, who later made the movie Independence Day, all about Area 51.

I mean, his one question was, so if aliens were to attack the Earth, wouldn't Area 51 be our, like, first line of defense? Wouldn't we have saucers there that we could fly and, like, fight the aliens? And I'm like, yeah, Dean, yeah, that's exactly what we do.

We can't do that.

And he didn't tell me why, but I later found out it was because Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were trying to do more movies.

And so the corporate powers that be at MGM were saying, no, we can't make a TV show.

It's a movie.

And never watched it again.

So cut to 25, 30 years later, I had written a spec pilot script, and my agents had sent it all over town, and Dean read it, and he loved it.

So I get a call from my agents, and they said, Dean Devlin wants to meet with you.

And I said, he's punking me.