Has Steven Spielberg gone Tom Cruise crazy?

[jackbourassa]

So Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) are joining forces and creating a new reality television show (because that's what we need in America, more reality TV) where contestants compete against one another for the right to direct a film. The show is expected to air next summer and will follow the format of American Idol, where contestants are voted off by a voting public and critiqued by a panel of judges. Hopefully there will be no fat naked guys, secret alliances and Trump product placements, but who knows.

Here's the link:

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/04/05/spielberg-to-create-a-reality-show/

Is it me or is Spielberg scraping the bottom of the barrel here?

Hey Steven, you've got Academy Awards and $3 billion, why do you need to do this again?

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. Wasn't there already something like that - Project Greenlight

I've never seen it, only heard Lloyd Kaufman deliver a very angry and lengthy rant about how shit it was.

(Also did anyone else have that PC "game" Spielberg put his name to - "Director's Chair", where you had to make a movie starring Jennifer Aniston, Quentin Tarantino and Penn & Teller. (Only on my PC it always crashed in the edit suite so I never got to see the completed picture.)

[Paladin]

2. Spielberg Needs To Put His Efforts.....

...into assuring that his next movie is the same quality as "Private Ryan," rather than "The Terminal." Why he's wasting time on a dubiously talented religious fanatic and yet another reality show is beyond me.....