Sorry, I just meant The Flash. I think the studio thinks that they don’t want to denounce the star, at least until after release. After release I imagine they’ll get rid Ezra and the exact statement will depend on the press.

I think Miller is sticking around, because there’s already a film in pipeline. As for Cavill I’ve started seeing rumors that he’s gotten difficult to work with. That he didn’t leave The Witcher for films as much as was asked to leave. It’s not from insiders and I don’t put a lot of stock in it, but it was odd coming…

Which is not a claim they or anyone else made. That’s just something you accused them of.

Who said anything about style? And copyright doesn’t just copy direct copies, it protects against derivative works excepting some cases of fair use.

Oh, and what would those be?

The AI is fundamentally doing something different from human artists. “Learning” in this context is just a shorthand for iteratively updating weights and filters subject to a cost minimization function and anyone claiming it’s the same as being inspired is flat out wrong.

One of the things that really gets to me is that the technology would still work if the models were trained on public domain images, or content generated by the teams. There’s no need to throw living artists under a bus.

I think you could also reasonably argue the trained model itself is a derivative work, one created directly from unmodified copyrighted materials.

I think the end goal is probably to control commercial use of models trained on copyrighted material and their output. Models trained on public domain and licensed images should be fine.

I think previous articles have said it’s supposed to focus on the corporate dystopia aspect

I remember it aired pretty frequently in the states, but I don’t know if it was beloved. There was that viral comedy video with Don Cheadle from a few years back, but I think the producer math is that it is a familiar superhero IP not owned by someone else. They’d better be willing to alienate audiences considering…

Netflix also has two of the director’s previous films available for streaming. They are two part action epics called Baahubal and are a ton of fun.

I liked the Thanos set up, I think it worked well. We have absolutely left the casual comics knowledge I picked from the old cartoons and general osmosis. I don’t know anything about Kang and I’d like to see him as more of character.

I’ve long wondered if those characters are so compelling as to justify half a century of media. From that description I think it would hard to argue it wouldn’t have been better as an original project.

Looks like the Beau is Afraid trailer also dropped. It’s a lot. Ari Aster seems to be taking a big departure from his previous films.

Has it been confirmed or is that still a guess? Corey Stoll was terribly underused as Yellowjacket, if he’s back I hope he gets more to do.

It kinda looks like they’re giving Kang more screen time and personality than Thanos had.

Funny you mention it

I’ve been thinking about Andor a lot lately. A common diagnosis of Star Wars here and elsewhere is that it’s become too insular and self referential. It gets pointed out that Lucas was drawing on serials and samurai films for inspiration while, in contrast, much of the new media is just drawing on SW.

I’d call The Expanse sprawling, even in the first book there was a lot of history, culture, and introduction of three main factions and suggestions of sub-factions.