10 Movies That Changed Your Mind About Directors You Hated

3. Batman Begins - David S Goyer

There was once a time when David Goyer wasn't counted as some sort of messianic writing whirlwind, brought in to oversee the creative conceptions of Batman movies, and Call Of Duty and high concept sci-fi and fantasy TV shows. In fact, there was a time when he wasn't considered very good at much of anything, writing things like Kickboxer 2 and David Hasselhoff's Nick Fury: Agent Of Shield and scratching a living until someone handed him a pen and told him to write Blade. At that point, the writer channelled all of his successes in writing really bad horror flicks into another, burdgeoning genre, and it paid off magnificently, earning him not only some pretty impressive writing gigs, but also the chance to direct for the first time. That he did with Zig Zag, which was entirely forgettable, before graduating from writing to directing Blade Trinity, which is where the wheels burst off. Despite some good ideas, the film was sloppy and silly, and it was very obvious that Goyer's writing successes with the first movie (and parts of the second) were no more than a blip. And he clearly wasn't a good director. But then, just as Goyer was being re-assessed as another mid-card, poorly skilled writer/director, Chris Nolan employed him to help on Batman Begins, and the tight, dark story he produced was a revelation. His comic book fandom shone through, and all of a sudden a Z-lister given a chance to direct proved that he actually maybe was as talented as we all thought for a while. Did It Last? As a director, Goyer is still awful: there was nothing in either The Unborn or The Invisible that disproved that theory, but as a writer, he continues to pick up gigantic billings, and fan adulation. And that will inevitably lead to some more directing opportunities.