“$15 for data entry, the horror!”
Continues to use Lyft and Doordash.

CA: The First Avenger, CA: Winter Soldier, CA: Civil War?

This is the thought process that gets me to guaranteed basic income.

Star Wars, does not have that. Star Wars is a franchise with a much more narrow focus, with more concrete established settings, characters, esthetics, tone, and lore. There is a lot you can do with that, but you can only stretch it so far before eventually it stops feeling like Star Wars.

Yup.

It’s not an unreasonable schedule if you just talking about pure production logistics. But my actual point was that there simply isn’t enough story there in Star Wars to keep churning out movies at that kind of pace. You risk devaluing the brand, which is the whole problem with the movies no longer feeling like…

It was absolutely ridiculous of them to ever think they could’ve kept pumping out Star Wars movies at the same breakneck pace they do for Marvel films. As a result Star Wars wound up falling into the same hole that swallowed up so many would be “Cinematic Universes” in the late 2010s and for largely the same…

Nothing wrong with cutting out the middle-man (mammal.)

Your anti-MCU bias is showing again.

Okay Jenda

we didn’t know who Iron Man was

I sincerely hope the writers come away from this with the benefits they deserve. Everyone except for whoever wrote the newest Jurassic World script.

I suspect they learned how to prepare for one better so they can outlast the writers. I wonder if they have a huge backlog of scripts that they could produce to hold them over for a year or even two. It won’t help live shows like late night talk or SNL, but if they already have the scripts for season 27 of NCIS: Topeka…

I’m more pessimistic, especially if this lasts more than a few days. Network TV is a lot less important, and the big streaming companies aren’t affected by the strike in the same way - they’ve got series in the tank to play, and a huge library of content they can recirculate (Netflix in particular is so huge that they…

SAG’s contract ends on June 30th, so I doubt we’d see anything from them ahead of that. But it would put extra pressure on the studios if they struck too, since they wouldn’t be able to do even the productions they’ve got in the tank.

rumour is circling that SAG and the Directors guild are discussing solidarity strikes as well.

The AMPTP would politely like everyone to pay no attention to the hundreds of billions of dollars its products stuff into the bank accounts of countless billionaires every year, lest we get the impression that it has virtually unlimited level of funds to meet any and all of the WGA’s requests. Because even if that…

Luckily the WGA is pretty transparent about the whole thing, so its pretty easy to see where the AMPTP is just lying about how comprehensive and fair their proposal is.

While nobody really wanted a strike, I wonder if the studios aren’t now hoping that the strike will last long enough that they can invoke force majeure and nuke all of their production deals. During the Streaming Content Goldrush of the past couple years, all the major streamers but especially Netflix signed tons of…

Here’s hoping studios remember that the last writer’s strike was absolutely awful, and quickly decide writers should be given a better deal.