Even though the movie has a 2% score on Rotten Tomatoes (and made the review site’s list of the worst movies ever), the producer of Ice Cube’s new War of the Worlds remake defended it, saying the studio “intended to make a good movie.”
No one sets out to make a bad movie. Period. Ever. No one rolls out of bed to go work for 12, 14, 16 hours a day, sometimes, 6, 7 days a week in our case, to make a bad anything.
producer Patrick Aiello told Toni’s Film Club
In the film, Ice Cube plays a Department of Homeland Security expert in surveillance and threat assessment during an alien invasion.
The movie is a screenlife story, meaning everything happens on computer and phone screens.
We were only trying to entertain. It’s unfortunate that the movie was hated, or group hated, or just piled on top. We have no control over that. You can only look at the end results and know if your effort was justified. And if we ascend to the number four, number five, or number six most-watched movie on Amazon’s platform ever, then we have totally been victorious.
Aiello continued
Unlike Netflix, Amazon doesn’t share its streaming numbers, so we might never know how War of the Worlds is performing – though all the bad publicity has likely led to plenty of hate-watches.
War of the Worlds is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
We intended to make a good movie. I think we made a really good movie for the money we had. We’ll be fine.
Aiello concluded
Source: GamesRadar