NEWS: Trent Reznor Pissed Off at Label for Ruining His Film

Dec 05, 2008 - By Mali

ninme08 12 05 NEWS: Trent Reznor Pissed Off at Label for Ruining His Film

Trent Reznor was planning on making a 3D films of his upcoming tour with the help of James Cameron’s film crew. He was planning on bringing the film to theaters, for a 3-D NIN extravaganza. He even had planned an extra free shows for fans to say  “thank you” for all their support, but he made two big mistakes. First, he included his record company and then he allowed them to dick around for months before giving him the cold shoulder. Something Reznor has had to deal with before and doesn’t seem to happy about dealing with again.

Here is what Reznor had to say about the situation:

File this one under lost opportunities.

I’m very proud of the show we’ve put together for this tour and have been working hard the last few months to find a way to capture it. I had an amazing situation lined up that would have allowed me to film the show in 3D with James Cameron’s team for a theatrical release as well as DVD / BluRay, etc. We had an extra date added to the tour that we were going to give away all the tickets for and have a filming party / thank you show.

I made two critical mistakes. One was to approach a certain record company that owns some of the song rights about producing / funding. The second was to allow said company to fuck around as usual for months before saying um… no. We then achieved the impossible by finding alternate production / funding but the timetable is too rushed to get it filmed comfortably with the remaining time left on the tour. This tour and a lot of the personnel involved finish at the end of this leg, so we can’t push filming into Jan / Feb.

Deep breath…
This was an amazing tour and production – certainly the best thing I’ve ever been involved with and likely the final tour for NIN on this scale. Thank you to those who came out to see it and forgive me for having a Kanye West moment, but this was FOR SURE the best show of the year and any bullshit end-of-the-year poll you may read in the next few weeks that says otherwise simply has it wrong. Those of you who saw it know I’m right.

The shows we have announced in 2009 and any more that may be announced will be a completely different approach with some different personnel and will likely be the last for the foreseeable future.

Source: NIN

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