In fairness, "huge delays, way over budget, constant studio fuckery" is pretty much the standard mode for Star Wars films?

For serious.

That was my point: he would probably still have been mayor at the time if Gawker hadn't dug up the crack tape.

It's actually the thing I really love about classically trained british actors: they're for the most part pretty self-conscious about being working actors. Want them to show up and add a sheen of completely unearned prestige to your terrible fucking project? Just write the damn check and make sure it clears promptly.

Thiel’s personal enmity for Gawker Media, and his realization that he could kill it simply by outspending it

He did. It is a goddamn mystery why he is not James Cameron-level famous.

I blame S.W.A.T. for prematurely killing Clark Johnson's feature film directing career. The man directed the pilot and finale episodes of both The Wire and The Shield for heaven's sake. If that kind of resume doesn't get you at least a few second chances in Hollywood, what will?

No, you're not. But. BUT.

Technically what comes after the Jaguar is being sold to a third-tier hard drive maker and then ignominious bankruptcy and liquidation.

"Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty."

Same. I've got a list of issues with his policies longer than my arm, and I would cut that arm off if it meant we could have him and all of those issues back right about now.

Cursed. That whole show, cursed.

Dear god. Don't even SAY that shit. :(

Quick, someone set up an Uncharted spinoff/sequel starring her and Claudia Black.

In cold hindsight, Straczynski's decision to film the entire show on a native american burial ground seems penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Has…has anyone checked in on Claudia Christen lately? Maybe someone should just, like, drive by her place, knock on the door, see if she's okay?

God help me, I actually went to his IMDB page, and I think you've nailed it. And even Looper seems like a happy late-career accident: you could make a solid argument that he gave up immediately after "Unbreakable" in 2000 based on the nonstop stream of paycheck projects that followed it.

"We never believed that was true"

If you like that sting, you should go out and buy all three Run the Jewels albums, like, yesterday. (And then backfill with all of El-P's solo albums and Funcrusher Plus.)

FFUUUUUUUCK. That is terrible news. I bitch about disqus like everyone else, but kinja is completely fucking unusable.