That’s 6 months for each claimed IQ point.

There’s a bit of a dirty-old-man vibe running through a lot of Fritz Lieber’s work, to be honest.

Possibly helps that Edge of Tomorrow’s source was less well-known, and the setting was straightforwardly changed, while Ghost in the Shell trips over its own feet by changing the lead to white while keeping the Japanese setting, and then making it a big reveal that the character’s secretly Japanese after all.

The people in charge of Covid safety compliance were concerned by the crew’s refusal to discuss how the host eats or breathes.

Thing is, commutes and short breaks vary in length — either lots of very short things like TikTok or longform things that are well suited to pausing anywhere like podcasts seem better adapted to that than 10-minute chunks.

That’s got nothing to do with smartphones, though.

COVID has lots and lots of children. That’s kind of why it’s a problem.

‘Manky’ is a British slang term for ‘filthy’ -- not in a good way, more in a ‘full of mould’ way -- which doesn’t help with taking the title seriously.

....got superpowers, fought Doctor Doom, etc.

Don’t want to argue that it won’t be impressive at all, but I kind of feel that the emphasis on new developments in underwater filming might have more technical appeal than being an obvious breakthrough for a mass audience though.

it’s taken longer to make than Boyhood

The revival was 1975 and the book was bimonthly for quite a while after, so you’ll reach the 80s from there quicker than you might think.

“And that’s not even getting into releasing it during the pandemic....”

Accepting that it had to change, it’d still be better without the subtitle.

Maybe a disproportionate percentage of the people who are willing to risk their health to go to a movie are also the same people who’ll be there on opening weekend

If US copyright periods aren’t extended in the next three years, Holmes becomes fully public domain there anyway. (As has already happened in many countries, since the US’s mix of fixed-term copyright for older works and life+70 for newer is unusual.)

Kind of, but the concept rather than just the execution looks like the bad bit this time round.

His vocal style is inspired by the original Speed Racer cartoon, where the US dub made more effort to match the lip movements than the original soundtrack did, producing some weird results.

The beginning of The Colour of Magic is a fairly direct Lankhmar parody — in particular, Bravd and the Weasel are parodies of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser, and the name of Ankh-Morpork echoes Lankhmar. Even though Discworld moves away from parodies of modern fantasy as early as the last part of the first book, yes,…

I’d guess that the problem from the film-oriented side is that co-ordination of plot elements takes effort (with the different structures of film and TV production not helping).