Talk:Akiva Goldsman

Script quality
Here is the relevant passage from the citation, whose byline is "After a series of disappointments, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has become a Hollywood heavyweight." Goldsman's glorious second act is a remarkable reversal of course. In the late 1990s, the satirical Razzies Awards nominated him for worst-screenplay prizes for "A Time to Kill" and "Batman and Robin." (Sample dialogue from the latter: Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze bellowing "You're not going to put me in the cooler!") He followed those distinctions by producing the hokey "Jaws" wannabe "Deep Blue Sea"; Variety goggled at the picture's "sheer dumbness." "I sort of got lost," Goldsman said by phone. "I was writing away from what I knew. It's a little like a cat chasing its tail. Once you start making movies that are less than satisfying, you start to lose your opportunity to make the satisfying ones. People are not serving them up to you, saying, 'You're the guy we want for this.'" I don't think it's accurate to say that they were scripts he found were of subpar quality. The industry did not think highly of A Time to Kill or Batman & Robin. — Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

"Post-Apotheosis"?
[Goldsman] co-wrote and produced the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, released on August 4, 2017, which was one of Goldsman's post-Apotheosis films.
 * Sorry—"post-Apotheosis"? Does that actually mean something? – AndyFielding (talk) 08:37, 12 January 2022 (UTC)