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Yeah. What’s up with that?
Yeah. Even Hulu is one too many for me. Another service for a single show is just insane.
I think Star Trek Discovery should have its own category, Pirate it. Even if it’s the most amazing show ever, I refuse to pay for a streaming service run by a major TV network who does have the confidence to put it on the actual broadcast after. $9.99 for commercial free viewing of CBS crap. I was going to make a…
And Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth
You know what else is innocuous, paint-by-numbers summer action fluff? Star Wars.
You’ll get the needle for that
Disney could put out a 90-minute movie of Daisy Ridley reading the paper and John Boyega playing on his phone and it would still gross $1 billion as long as the words “Star Wars” were in the title.
Sounds like Pine is branching out.
Nothing bad ever happens to a Kennedy!
Pine is too good looking to play Kennedy. They need somebody who looks like they took Chris Pine and melted him slightly. Like someone who is ALMOST good looking...
Oh Hai, Luke you shaved your beard.
Are you saying the deal was altered? And he had better pray they don’t alter it further? I mean come on guys the quotes are right fucking there!
Paul Verhoeven’s Star Wars Episode IX.
Johnson is a guy with talent but no clout. He brings a patina of artistic credibility to the project without actually having any leverage to enforce it. As the Han Solo incident proves, they’ll drop him in a heartbeat if he gets out of line.
I’ve always wanted Spielberg to do Star Wars, but I’m 99% sure it will never happen. He’s too close with Lucas.
Why? They’re going to make billions no matter who directs. What does it gain them to give their glorified hired hands any additional power?
“We hired him because he did was he was told, but then we changed what we were telling him, and we decided that was his fault.”