• Published:March 28th, 2008
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:Fandom, Movies

We mentioned Fanboys and its attendant controversy a few weeks ago on this site. The film’s second director, Steve Brill, took it upon himself to respond to messages from those fans who are concerned with how the director of Heavyweights is going to crap on their dreams for a sensitive, uplifting movie about a Star Wars fan dying of cancer. One fan wrote in this eloquent, forthright plea for the director:

You’re involved with Fanboys for nothing more than a quick buck. You don’t give a damn about the movie, Star Wars or its fans, so why the fuck did you agree to the job? Do you sleep comfortably at night knowing that you’ve bastardised a film that has the potential to become a cult classic for years on end into a movie which will be forgotten about in less than 6 weeks.

Little Nicky was okay, the rest sucked.

Once more, fuck you!

Brill’s response is a riposte in the vein of Oscar Wilde, the sort of thing that you’ll have on your mind late at night, marveling at its innate beauty:

Hey Owen. You’re kind of a big mouth tough guy over the internet. Wanna come say fuck you to my face? I’d be happy to give you the chance. How about this tough guy. You and I go head to head in a Star Wars Trivia contest. You think I don’t care about the wars fucker? I know more about it than you can imagine. I care deeply and have been immersed in Star Wars since it came out. I was there jerk off. I still have my stub. I have seen the trilogy probably a hundred times in the theater! And you dare question my caring. You think I would do it for the money!? I did it to get the movie released! So people like you could see it. But come on. Let’s prove who cares more. Five thousand dollars to the winner of a trivia contest. I’ll donate my winnings to the American Cancer Society…So get ready big shot… If you e mail me again, you better be ready to lose that five thousand.

I have no idea who I’m supposed to be rooting for here. It’s like some sort of mentally handicapped gladiatorial battle.