Talent whose careers didn't really go anywhere

Richard Kelly, you could not have asked for a better debut as an indie filmmaker than Donnie Darko but he was never able to have continued success and hasn't directed a movie in over a decade.

Neill Blomkamp, he was touted as the next big thing in genre filmmaking after District 9 but hasn't directed a feature film since Chappie flopped 5 years ago.
 
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jellycar said:
Rebecca Gayheart tho she murdered a guy
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Sort of: she actually ran over and killed a little boy.


Now she looks like an aging stripper who sucks dick for cocaine:

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Immortal Technique said:
Dakota Fanning. She still does stuff, but they seem to be bit parts. I guess I expected her to be a bigger star since she was probably one of the better kid actors to be in movies. Seems once she grew up, Hollywood had no roles for her or she just wouldn;t suck the dicks to get them.
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She's got a new TV series.
 
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Immortal Technique said:
Do you watch it? I came across it while searching for a Mind Hunters replacement since that show isn't ever coming back, and it's in the same kinda genre. Curious if it's good or above decent like the reviews it has.
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Episodes haven't started airing yet.
 
Overly Serious said:
Okay, enough sperging on ones already mentioned. I'll add Emily Perkins (one on the right):
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Probably not fair to say her career "didn't really go anywhere" as she's teaching drama now according to her bio and presumably enjoys that. But she had a tonne of talent. I guess she just wasn't really considered movie star looks, though I thought she was cute. If you can overlook the total lack of budget, Ginger Snaps is a great low-key horror movie. And the sequel's not bad, either.
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I don't know if her acting was anything exceptional, but I do remember liking the second movie more. Less high school drama and more lunatics being loons
 
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Übertroon said:
I don't know if her acting was anything exceptional, but I do remember liking the second movie more. Less high school drama and more lunatics being loons
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It's a hard pick between the first and second as they're quite different. But the second does have one of my favourite cinema lines (spoilered because it gives away the ending of the first one).




Context: Bridget being haunted by the ghost of her sister which taunts her that she's going to succumb to the same fate she did...
Bridget: "I'm stronger than you."
Ginger: "That's not how I remember the first fifteen years of your life."
Bridget: "Well it's how I remember the last fifteen minutes of yours."

Also, the end of Ginger Snaps 2 is one Hell of a... Well you've seen it, you know.
 
Erik Von Detten is now in real estate iirc....

The little girl who played Madeline in the live action film. She fell off the face of the earth apparently.
 
Pretty much any of those interchangeable lunkhead Australians Hollywood repeatedly tries to hype up as action stars, from Sam Worthington to Jai Courtney. Courtney especially... as many franchises as that man's killed, his agent deserves an Oscar for the performance they must have given tp studios who keep hiring them.

The female equivalent are pretty much any of the Victoria's Secret models who try and have an acting career. Brooklyn Decker, Kate Upton. Cara Delwhatshername... all talentless, yet each will pop up in a dozen movies over 3 years then they never get work again.

UnKillShredDur said:
I know you technically said "talent," but Will Smith's kids all thankfully seem to have fizzled out, despite their *actually* talented father and *not actually* talented mother, doing their very best to make their shitty kids famous. Uncle Phil would be disappointed as fuck.
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Fun fact: The reason Will Smith had to start taking pretty much every movie role offered after about 2013? He lost damn near every penny he had producing all of Jaden's star vehicles... he lost something like 100 million on After Earth alone.

Jaden is so talentless, trying to buy him an acting career nearly bankrupted one of the most successful actors of all-time.
 
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Boston Brand said:
Fun fact: The reason Will Smith had to start taking pretty much every movie role offered after about 2013? He lost damn near every penny he had producing all of Jaden's star vehicles... he lost something like 100 million on After Earth alone.

Jaden is so talentless, trying to buy him an acting career nearly bankrupted one of the most successful actors of all-time.
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That's one of those "fun facts" that isn't even actually fun because everybody already knows that Will Smith's kids are shitty and share none of his talent. (They might have inherited the lack of talent from their shitty scientologist mom, or maybe not.)

It is very true that Will used his contacts to get son a failed movie career, but you may have forgot he also used them to get his daughter a failed record contract.. (and she isn't any more talented than her brother is...)
 
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UnKillShredDur said:
That's one of those "fun facts" that isn't even actually fun because everybody already knows that Will Smith's kids are shitty and share none of his talent. (They might have inherited the lack of talent from their shitty scientologist mom, or maybe not.)

It is very true that Will used his contacts to get son a failed movie career, but you may have forgot he also used them to get his daughter a failed record contract.. (and she isn't any more talented than her brother is...)
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I knew about the record deal too... I just think its hilarious that Will Smith, a man whose name at one point guaranteed your movie would top the box office, who has charisma coming oozing out of him...

Nearly spent every dime he had trying to buy his worthless kids careers because they lacked the talent to earn one. And will have to spend the next decade saying yes to every script offered to him for the paychecks, Nicholas Cage-style.
 
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