Filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted,” “Ben Hur”) has become the go-to producer if you want to do a ‘Screenlife’ project – those movies where the narrative takes place almost entirely on computer screens.
In that capacity, he has worked on a number of notable films, including “Searching,” “Unfriended,” “Missing,” “CTRL,” and Amazon Prime’s infamous “War of the Worlds” film starring Ice Cube.
Bekmambetov, coming off the Chris Pratt-led “Mercy” earlier this year, is currently out promoting Ronan Corrigan’s crypto heist thriller “LifeHack” and participated in a Reddit AMA yesterday.
Understandably, much of the conversation turned to “War of the Worlds” and what went wrong with the film, which collected five Razzie awards and sits at a dismal 4% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Asked how he felt to have worked on the project, Bekmambetov says: “The criticism of War of the Worlds didn’t surprise me. I’ll take three weeks at number one at Amazon Prime over a good review any day. Always have.”
He adds that “LifeHack is my reparation for The War of the Worlds”. The comments follow on from Cube saying in December the movie was shot in 15 days during the pandemic, saying: “the director wasn’t in there. None of the actors was in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie.”
