Dude/tte, TIFF dropped this movie instantly after getting a cease and desist letter. It sounds like WB got what they wanted without having to spend time in a court room.

I’d add that not just ‘Okay, make a movie using our IP’, but ‘Okay, make a movie using one of our most profitable IPs’.

Here’s me wishing that they also do Suikoden 3. While it is a flawed product, for me it does a lot more intriguing things with its main characters than the first two, even if Suikoden 2 is an absolute gem of a game.

I was trying to write a post that hit on this arguments, but you have done it much better than I could. I’d also add that they have a new Joker movie in development, so I’d guess that WB lawyers would argue that because this is being distributed while that production is on-going, there is a financial harm there as…

This is not a reasonable interpretation of ‘Fair Use’ in any fucking world. I mean, by your definition here, Marvel Studios and Sony never had to fight over the rights to Spider-Man as Marvel could have just gone ‘Fair use’ y’all. Now I’m suddenly wondering why every single big movie studio isn’t just having their own…

Yeah, just type in Joker fan film on YouTube and you get a lot of options.

I legit guffawed in disbelief when I got to that race part. Even when the very title mentioned it was going to be racist, I still did not expect it to be that horrifyingly blatantly racist.

I’m at least a little bit intrigued that they seem to have made some changes to the book based on the trailer. Like it was enjoyable read, but it is such a self-insert wish fulfillment story that it started to become ridiculous towards the end and I don’t think it ages at all well. So at least by hinting that they are…

I mean, as pointed out already, what the hell did anyone expect to happen here? This seems like such a flagrant licensing violation, especially once you start hitting the festival circuit with it, that it was a question of time the moment they announced it.

I actually like the setup of the story here as well as the casting. This seems to put as much as focus on the adaptive father as well as the teens, which I like as there is just something that I really dig about adoptive parent-child storylines. Especially when getting that supernatural twist there.

I’ll just disagree hard, while also somewhat agreeing, on that description of Brahmāstra. It was a bizarre experience as that movie was astonishingly bad, yet at the same time it managed to be mesmerizing in that I never found it boring. Not because it was encaptivating, but rather because I was just constantly…

...But they have to use one of the genders in the trailers? Besides I think I’d get this complaint more when it came to Odyssey as there the gender was a locked thing while in Valhalla you can switch it up midgame. Actually the gender thing would perhaps be one of my complaints in Valhalla as considering the setting I…

On the VA front, I thought both the male and female Eivor actors were both pretty good. The female version took a while to get used, though, but when I got what was distracting me with her, it actually improved the experience. They usually don’t have female character’s with such low voices in games, so that required…

No, what I’m saying is that it is a bad sitcom. As opposed to a good sitcom.

I don’t think they’re dropping the modern day stuff, also a fan of it by the way, although I am also curious in how they are going to implement it. I mean it’s not just the new status quo established at the end of Valhalla, but they even go back to planting seeds for that in Dawn of Valhalla.

Ooh, that sounds really fantastic.

By the way, I’m going to put this comment here as the Kotaku doesn’t have a specific post on the subject. Not a complaint, just feel the need to write this to the world.

As a big fan of the AC games, excited for this. Both how do they approach this first non-Western historical experience and how do they hone the narrative mechanics from Valhalla. Like I’m still in awe how much you could affect who Eivor was in that story while the events themselves remain unattached. In addition I do…

Really looking forward to this one. Partially because I do wonder how they will appproach the fact that the story is an inherent tragedy. It’s playing a game where Basim will lose himself, his mind taken over by Loki, which is a really intriguing concept and a very different kind of narrative experience.

I have so many different kinds of feelings about this announcement. I guess the strongest one of is relief as this is what I’ve wanted since playing through the Valhalla main quest. Eivor’s story arc is such a deeply satisfying one for me and some of the stuff at the wedding had me shedding tears. Yet it was always…