I think every director who reaches a certain level of success should be allowed, ONCE, to just make whatever they fuck they want with zero oversight

thet world needs more Cats and Death Strandings

just completely undiluted, completely insane directorial visions

show us the movie that's in your heart and probably should be kept locked in there

I'm glad for the qualifier there

if you can only do it once, you have to make that ONE time just absolute purestrain self-indulgence

you can't hold anything back

just once, make a movie that's ONLY for you

and then go back to having oversight the rest of the time because auteurs are best in small doses.

I feel like this would result in at least some percentage of those films accidentally being extremely niche pornography, but honestly that might be a feature instead of a bug.

yeah that's fine I guess

Because then at least the director would be admitting "yeah the worldbuilding is like this because it turns me on" instead of trying to pretend that whatever their fetish is was vitally necessary to the plot.

It would definitely also result in some really weird crossover fanfiction but with a Hollywood budget, which is delightful.

"This is my directorial masterpiece" /gestures at "Lupin III vs Captain Planet: Deathmatch"

Amazing, fund it immediately.

I’m genuinely afraid of what some directors would make though

I don’t think I want to see what is in Zack Snyder’s heart, even ironically

unfortunately we're about to find out