Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve read it, but I seem to recall a chunk of the book being similar to a history text, and the rest was narrative-ish.  I think you could do something with it, but it seems we are unlikely to find out anytime soon.

If the Sony thing goes through, then yeah, that’s probably what will happen, though I can see Sony hanging on to some key IPs like Trek.

That was the plan, yep.  Until they all way overspent on content creation, so they now have to license stuff they own to others.  Warner is doing the same with Max.

Oh I agree. But when bean counters are making the decision — and in the corporate world, bean counters are always making the decision -- there’s no differentiation happening between “good” and “bad,” or “necessary” and “unnecessary.”

I love most of the cast, but not the stories.

I’d be down for that if for one minute I believed that a JJ-produced movie could give us that kind of storyline, but good lord, I’ve seen no evidence that it’s possible.

And more importantly, does this Batman go down?

I agree with you, but keep in mind that everything every corporation does is a money grab.

The estate won’t allow anyone to do anything. The rights being used have existed for a very long time, which is why the Jackson movies happened (reportedly the estate does not like them).

Says the psychopath defending another psychopath.

It’s like Raylan Givens says: if you meet an asshole in the morning, you’ve met an asshole. But if you meet assholes all day long, chances are you’re the asshole.

or the Beyonder

I LOL’d.

OK, does anyone really want this to happen? Trek has (IMNSHO) mostly been killing it on streaming (in the proper Prime universe); Star Trek Beyond came out EIGHT YEARS AGO. Which means that by the time this happens (assuming it does), a DECADE will have gone by. It’s hard to imagine there’s momentum for this.

LMAOOOOO OK I’m with you there.  Have a star!

The first reason??

Mine was my mom’s ‘85 Maxima. The entire dash was digital, including a very cool bar-graph-esque tach. It also could talk. It was like a video game on wheels, super comfortable (very plush suede-ish seats), and had oomph under the hood. It even talked.

Exactly.  That’s why they love mergers so much in the C-suites, because they all make bank from the merger, and then they lay off a bunch of “redundant” employees, bouncing the stock higher.  And now they have one less competitor.

Oh, and this car is so ugly.