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I’ve hardly seen any promotion for it. 

I’d argue that all of the Star Wars shows, live-action and animated, are pretty niche. They deal with lore that the average Star Wars fan, who is extremely casual in their knowledge of the expanded universe, is probably not that familiar with.

I’ve said this before, but I sense a deep cultural divide between Marvel and DC’s movie divisions. The people who make the Marvel movies, or at least the first wave or so of Marvel movies, like Feige, Whedon, and Gunn, were obviously Marvel fans when they were kids and grew up reading the comics. (Even Kenneth Branagh…

There are obviously lots of cartoons that are either enduring or have iterated to the point where they don’t feel like they’re stuck in a particular era. I mean, Scooby-Doo is still around, and he’s older than me!

I was mistaken! The budget for Part Two is listed at $122 million, about $40 million less than the first movie. I imagine that’s because they were able to reuse a lot of the sets, costumes, miniatures, and digital assets.

Villeneuve has said that he’d direct Messiah for Legendary if Part Two was successful, it all depends on the box office.

I think a lot of people watched it on HBOMax. And it did okay for a slow-paced arthouse sci-fi movie that wasn’t a sequel or part of an existing franchise, around $400 million.

It was only going to run for two seasons. I dunno if Disney would trash most of a completed second season out of sheer spite, but who knows? 

I’m not a huge fan of the original Exorcist, but one of its best qualities is its quasi-documentary style. It doesn’t look or feel like a horror film, especially the kinds of horror films that were still being made in 1973, like the last wave of Hammer movies. It feels like a contemporary drama that gradually turns…

One way out!

So much of the current franchise model is rooted in the assumption that people 25 and under give a shit about cartoons and toy lines that came into existence before their parents met each other. There’s this weird mentality of corporate synergy/cultural hegemony where the studios are like, We spent $300 million on a…

Eventually we’ll make up our own spoilers. And they’ll be amazing! Wait ‘til you hear about the big Doctor Who-Grape Ape crossover!

Also, as far as I can tell the movie has been filming more or less continuously since June 2021, presumably with an original release date planned for sometime last year. It’s been delayed repeatedly as the studio has responded to what it considers critical issues — reducing Amber Heard’s part due to the Depp bullshit,…

Seeing as how Dune is a Legendary production — they financed the movies and own the rights — I could see them deciding, fuck this, we’re going to another studio, if not for Part Two then definitely for Messiah.

Affleck is not a bad Batman. The problem is that the filmmakers could never really find a consistent tone for the character. He’s a Miller-like psycho in BvS and a more traditional version in the other films. It almost feels as if he’s playing different characters.

It’s an incomplete parallel, because the commercial failure of Justice League effectively derailed Warner Bros.’ plans to create a Marvel-like shared universe. Almost every DCEU movie afterwards up until The Flash was largely self-contained. But if you look at the earlier movies, the studio was definitely planning on…

Wait, Will Ferrell is the bad guy?

True, although going by Hoyt’s age at the time, Boyce would’ve only been in his mid-fifties during the events of “The Cage.”

Has Boyce ever been referenced on SNW? The show is set five years after “The Cage,” so presumably he could’ve transferred to another ship.