Yeah, you read that correctly. Here’s an interesting little story coming out of THR.com. Turns out that one of the producers on the first Transformers flick, Don Murphy, is a chronic comment troll. He’s notorious for reading through film review blogs and getting angry when people speak the truth about some of the shit that comes out of Hollywood. So one day a few years ago, Murphy was trolling the blogs once again and found a post from comic book artist Eddie Campbell about the flick From Hell. It turns out someone named James Robert Smith wasn’t happy about the production or felt the need to comment (Murphy, by the way was also a producer on From Hell). So while trolling the blog and finding Smith’s comment, Murphy went one step further and did some research. He found out that Smith wasn’t just your average commenter, he was a published author.
Murphy, probably thinking of ways to attack Smith where it hurts, decided to order the book online in hopes of criticizing his work.
But then something interesting happened. Murphy fell in love with the book. Flock is apparently a story about highly intelligent prehistoric birds that defend their Florida habitat from theme park developers. Murphy decided to put down his defenses and offer Smith a movie deal for Flock…
So there you have it, proof that expressing the truth about an opinion can actually lead you to bigger and better things. We just have to make sure that lots and lots of movie producers are out there reading comments.
