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Sci-Fi Movie Flops That The Creators Still Defend
By LEO NOBORU LIMA
Tank Girl
Talalay admitted to EW that she resented her adaptation of the eponymous British comic series for a long time. "It was a disaster. I couldn't talk about it for 10 years."
Talalay embraces the fact that not everyone loves it. "I always said, 'I want to make a film that you give it either a one or a ten,'" the director told EW.
Speed Racer
The epitome of the Wachowskis visionary anti-commercialism was arguably 2008's "Speed Racer" even though audiences didn't know what to make of its sugar-rush aesthetics.
As ever, the Wachowskis were ahead of their time — "Speed Racer" flopped in theaters in 2008 but became a massive cult favorite.
Blade Runner
Director Ridley Scott revealed to Total Film Magazine, from the moment he began working on "Blade Runner," he was certain of the project's value, and he held on to that.
"I knew I was making something very, very special. So I would never take no for an answer. But they didn't understand what they had," Scott said.
Blade Runner 2049
When "Blade Runner 2049" grossed a mere $276 million worldwide against a budget over $150 million, Villeneuve realized that he'd done something financially reckless.
It was an opportunity and he took it. "Let's just say it would not be a good idea for me to make a movie like that twice," Villeneuve quipped to The Telegraph.
The Abyss
The deep-sea-set 1989 film grossed only $90 million worldwide against a budget half that size, an underperformer by Hollywood standards.
"It wasn't kind of a slam dunk in the way 'Aliens' was," he said at a 2023 Beyond Fest panel (via IndieWire). "Like, we just knew 'Aliens' worked.