My only take away with Florence Pugh is that she has suck a fun personality and is known for being quite silly and a bit quirky and they were like “no, there will be no fun” when she came out. 

I say this in all sincerity - She was almost certainly taped into that dress.

Allegedly, they had asked all of the usual suspects and no one wanted to host so that’s how it ended up being Koy ten days before the show. I don’t know that more prep time would have fixed things, but he was always doomed to fail if they didn’t even make him watch all the films with the writers and run an actual…

Except that Stewart pretty clearly said it was due to his commitments in LA and health restrictions as opposed to a creative choice.

Weirdly, the movie is almost exactly about the point you bring up. Natalie Portman’s character is in their lives in order to find “truth” for her film role.

I think some of it stemming from the discourse about it being a comedy. I get where that label is coming from, but I think it also makes people who haven’t seen it think that it’s like some kind of laugh fest that is mocking the situation.

I agree that they are all based on real life and that there is some ephemeral difference to the Academy. Just highlighting that it’s an odd difference to have unless we are supposed to think Sorkin concocted the entire plot of Trial of the Chicago 7 without referencing a single pre-existing piece of literature on the…

...coverage that occurred at a time when he was too young and too victimized to assert any agency over the situation.

Who, to be fair, was our primary source on “John Cleese is probably an ass” for many years.

It’s not unprecedented, but there are some valid examples where something was deemed original when under this criteria it seems adapted.

I think there’s also a misconception that the punchlines are offensive, but funny. The bigger criticism is that they are offensive and also not funny. They aren’t somehow incisive and nuanced takes on the things that divide us. They are hack-y jokes with punchlines that are essentially “Trans people, amirite?”

Having read many of Michael Palin’s diaries and things other pythons have said, I’m pretty sure John Cleese was always fairly shitty. 

The stuff about the person she was paired up with being abusive is very concerning, but it feels like overreach to include the stuff about having phone, passport and license taken and having to be escorted. I can’t imagine that wasn’t very clearly laid out in the contract. I think the only way that part will carry…

You keep referencing 2020, but none of the properties you’re referencing came out in 2020 - Falcon and the Winter Soldier came out in March 2021. Black Widow came out in July 2021 and Yelena was linked to Valentina in December 2021 (Hawkeye). Valentina was in Wakanda Forever which came out in 2022. William Hurt also…

I didn’t say that it was barely in production. I said it’s arguably still in pre-production (i.e. nothing has been filmed), but the answer is a pandemic and two strikes. It was supposed to start filming in June 2023. Two strikes made that impossible. I really don’t think that was the whole point of that show, but they…

I doubt that is what is leading Yeun to leave so much as scheduling issues caused by a film that was supposed to shoot months ago that is not in purgatory in part because of the strikes and a bottleneck.

My mileage on how good MCU movies are is hit or miss, but I think frankly that was always the case and we now remember Phases 1 - 3 with rose colored glasses because they stuck the landing.

To classify Thunderbolts as “mid-production” is probably generous. Because of the strikes, it hasn’t even started filming yet. It is arguably still in pre-production. Every other outlet is reporting it as a likely scheduling issue - while Thunderbolts is scheduled to come out in 2025, it isn’t even clear when it will…

Going to be honest - that has not been clear from most of the reporting.

It’s possible, but unless they age her up at the jump (which they might), I’m pretty sure she’s 14 during the first marriage. I don’t know that they can Benjamin Button that.