Except the economic motivations of those hiring nepo children isn’t to fill a role that sells a lot of tickets, it’s to create a generational talent with access to the same network of contacts and producers that the parent had. Lily Rose-Depp, Scott Eastwood, Zosia Mamet. These aren’t actors getting jobs because…

Rumer Willis

I thought Once Upon a Time in Hollywood purposefully cast a bunch of nepo babies for the Manson family? Kevin Smith’s daughter, Andie Macdowell’s daughter... thought there were others too?

......I meant the paragraph wasn’t that hard to read.

Hughes et al once made their DM so mad that he stopped their D&D game. Not that hard.

This is a difficult needle to thread, because what made Honor Among Thieves work so well was that it wasn’t just another fantasy story - it was someone generating a fantasy version of exactly was was going on in a D&D game. It leaned so hard into the gaming tropes that I really felt like I was watching a gaming group…

Honor Among Thieves was really just too fun.  It’s a shame it didn’t do the numbers it needed too.  

Glenn Close was also in GotG as Nova Prime.

Dave Bautista was also a Marvel superhero

I am also keeping an open mind, but also increasingly thinking that The Crow is like Terminator/T2 - lightning in a bottle that cannot be re-created.

Oh it’s definitely unrealistic, I’m just saying that if the guy had a proven track record of like “he always has a book out in [x] years”, there could at least be a debate about it, but as it stands Martin left them no choice.

Can’t believe it took me this long to say it but: what a hack. First and foremost, adaptation is inherently an act of change; changing the medium of the story doesn’t just involve changing the shape of a story, it demands it. You’re a lot more likely to dash yourself against the rocks hewing too faithfully to the…

“My relative seems to believes that if an 8 year old says “I think I am a different gender” then they can walk into some magic clinic the same day they decide that and just get all the surgery they need to transition.”

He nearly sank All That Jazz by dropping out of the lead part. Roy Scheider was hired two weeks before production started. 

According to the BBC, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight will film in Belfast, Ireland.

If you’re going to be that reductive then you can make the same argument about literally any film franchise.

First, Fury Road is not a sequel. It’s a reimagining/reboot.

I don't think you understood what he said, or how script writing and movie productions actually work.

there is nothing silly about Conan the Librarian. He preforms a valuable service to the public.