F Murray Abraham was fired from Mythic Quest for sexual misconduct, so he may feel some kinship.

Have “adult dramas” (that don’t have the hook of some particular genre like crime or science fiction) really moved to TV/streaming, though?

Just going by indie movies from recent years that seem like they might have gotten financed because of who they starred: Joaquin Phoenix? Nicholas Cage? Cate Blanchett? Benedict Cumberbatch? Timothée Chalamet? Maybe Natalie Portman and/or Julianne Moore? Olivia Colman, possibly?

Outright shitting on the writers would have been saying, “The writers suck.” She didn’t say that.

Personally I think both movies are seriously overrated.

Could be.

I don’t agree with your assumption that the meaning of “remake” is or should be based on whether or not the filmmakers had to pay for the rights to the earlier film.

Stewart was also a last-minute replacement for an actor (I forget the name) who had to be fired due to alcoholism.

Don’t know why you think I don’t, and my response was not to you.

No. A remake specifically has to buy the rights to use the script of the previous film.

I think people overthink the definition of “remake.” It’s another movie with the same title, story, and characters as an existing film, so yes, it’s a remake.

Lynch has said it wasn’t the movie he wanted to make, but he did make it, and he always kept his name on the theatrical version. (Plus he even started work on a sequel until the movie bombed, and was interested in doing a director’s cut that more closely matched his vision, until the TV cut soured him completely on it.…

I don’t see how it matters, but in any case he only took his name off the TV cut, and he has moderated his stance on the movie as a whole in recent years.

AFAIK, the one Lynch movie that has been remade is Dune. Take that however you will.

ISTR she sacrifices her life in the Venice bridge fight against Ethan’s old nemesis. (He does the Tom Cruise run but he’s TOO LATE.)

I’m disappointed to learn this about Janelle Monáe. Very awkward fit with the feminist messaging of much of her music.

I find it interesting how it makes a huge difference how the information is presented, even when it’s the same information. If you googled “how many rocks should I eat today” and the first thing Google presented was a link to the Onion article with the title as a preview (along with a list of other hits below), that…

But the anonymous crew member has every right to talk about it and ridicule it as they want to. Just like every employee out there is entitled to blow off some steam about bosses they don’t particularly like doing things inefficiently or ignoring advice.

Wow, this looks pretty bad, right?

There’s a fan film from 2009 with the same (sub-)title and presumably more or less the same plot: Aragorn and friends tracking Gollum through the wilderness. It’s available on YouTube for now, but I expect WB are going to memory-hole it soon.