I understood they only have the rights to LotR and its appendices, so I don’t see how it could be Maeglin.

Too convoluted. Halbrand is Sauron and they can’t touch names from the Sil. I’m glad Christopher Tolkien refused to sell the rights, because JJ’s Mystery Box is a shitty storytelling device to apply to Middle-Earth.

Yeah if I found out Gal Gadot repeatedly had sex with me while thinking I was her dead boyfriend from WW1, I’d stop at nothing to have her thrown up under the prison on rape charges. I totally wouldn’t, like, just pretend to be a dead WW1 soldier.

“But as she experiences more success with films like The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot, an infrastructure of doctors and makeup artists assembles (or gets assembled) around her to ensure she looks like Monroe, and when she needs painkillers, feels like her too.”

“Whites have done far more damage to blacks than blacks had done to themselves.”

This is, very obviously, a joke

I haven’t seen it, so can’t definitively say whether it is predominantly a parody or satire, nor am I an IP lawyer

Patty was one of the writers on ‘84 and I think that was part of the problem.

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…

From the images included in articles, the film seems to share Youtube video’s production values.

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…

After watching the trailer for this- I have a STRONG feeling there is absolutely no other reason we are hearing about it other than this “controversy”. It looks like a *TERRIBLE* movie. The makers could not have been more lucky than to have it pulled. 

Yep.

“Drew says she’s had the movie vetted by lawyers for exactly that reason, constructing the film to abide by fair use standards. “

A lot of people bashing the media conglomerate but while this films sounds great, those same intellectual propertyy laws exist for everybody. Anyone is going to fight to stop their image being ripped off and would be right to do so.

Whites did the same to other whites before they found black folks to enslave. Whites have done far more damage to blacks than blacks had done to themselves.

Because a handful of people Twitter are liking and raving over her over those characters, so the media that now uses Tweets as their prime source of information blows it up, so now here we are with “best new MCU character in years!”

And the other half are middle aged white guys who started saying ‘y’all’ a couple of years ago.

This may be the first time I stray from the “shut up and let people like what they like” stance.

Why is this a story? How was he supposed to know she was her mother? I did a short stint working security for events like this a long time ago and it’s not like they provide the guards with a list of names + photos of people associated with whatever celebrities are there. The goal is to keep the wrong people out and…