While, at first glance, it’s an easy assumption to make that
the director has sole creative control over a film, there’s also the matter of
the producers to consider. The producers and production companies attached to a
film are the money backing it, and they get a considerable amount of sway over
what ends up in the final product; they can pull funding to the film if they
don’t agree with what the director wants to do with it. Sure, you will
occasionally get the auteurs that partially or even entirely fund their own
movies themselves, but in the Hollywood system this isn’t always the case. Not
to say that this is always a bad thing, mind you; just that it occasionally
leads to bad decisions. To further illustrate this, let’s get started with
today’s film: This is Walking With Dinosaurs.