John McTiernan is one of the most interesting people in all of Hollywood. He made some of the biggest movies of the 80s and 90s, though his career waned in the early 2000s when he failed to achieve the box office success he had enjoyed the previous decades. In a crazy twist, he actually went to jail for spying on his Rollerball provider in 2013 but went home to serve out the rest of his sentence on house arrest. Now, McTiernan is back and circling some projects to direct. But the Hollywood he's returned to could not look any different. He recently sat down with Forbes to discuss his career and the state of the industry today. In reading that interview, I was pleasantly surprised when he came out so strongly in support of the theatrical experience. Read More: Hollywood Needs to Prioritize Research and Development or It Will DieHe said, "It’s a significant thing, and it’s a significant thing politically. It’s actually pretty well documented that the experience of seeing a drama, a movie, or a play in a group of other people is a completely different experience than seeing it alone. Enormous numbers of hormones exchanged and all sorts of information that goes in between people in the audience. It will happen again, we have not watched the end of the agora, the public space.”McTiernan hopes the movies he's working on now are better than the last two he put into theaters. He said, “I gave up working...
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