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Post by jo on Nov 2, 2023 8:26:12 GMT -5
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Post by jo on Nov 7, 2023 3:27:09 GMT -5
From Deadline --
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Post by jo on Nov 7, 2023 10:07:55 GMT -5
The writers are now writing stories.
Who will tell the stories?
I wonder - will the studios start using their foreign affiliates or subsidiaries...and restart the movies elsewhere, say in the UK or Australia -- where English-speaking actors and crew can make the movies?
(Example: Les Miserables was filmed under the auspices of the UK production unit Working Title and filmed in England. It was released by Universal Studios, which has an agreement with Working Title. That was why most of the background & support players came from England and many from the West End.
Is Hollywood going to be moribund, or start to die?
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Post by jo on Nov 8, 2023 19:59:08 GMT -5
STrike is over From Deadline.com --
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Post by jo on Dec 30, 2023 23:40:32 GMT -5
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We'll see how the Deadpool&Wolverine movie fares?
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Post by jo on Mar 5, 2024 20:45:36 GMT -5
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Post by jo on Mar 31, 2024 21:42:11 GMT -5
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Post by jo on Apr 4, 2024 10:00:22 GMT -5
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Post by jo on Apr 4, 2024 10:27:10 GMT -5
I think maybe Bob Iger should really try to fully understand and appreciate that the XMen franchise was the first solid direction towards addressing current social prejudices and the characters they portrayed are those who were not generally accepted. Attempts in the franchise were made to show how integration can be made. Kevin Feige may have been a comicbook nerd and was involved in the first XMen movie ( but only for publicity and not in the creative process) could also learn from how the franchise was developed in relation to the statement first declared in the first movie! This refers to the recognition of these people blessed with a mutation issue but shunned by society. Acceptance of what they are/were was the goal -- not simply making the character work as a mutant in either gender or whatever race should not be his creative contribution? He probably means well - but he would know how the comic book creators intended for their characters to be accepted not just by comicbook readers or film adaptation fans but society in general.
But if the reports are true about changing the essential characters such as introduced in the comic books (like changing the gender of the unique XMan or XWoman for the sake of showing that the job can be done by either gender or any race ) - that would be disowning the artistic integrity that the creators infused into these characters. If this is being done also simply to open up employment opportunities to the widest possible sectors -- that should only be secondary to artistic integrity.
XMen-3 may have been one of the most unwieldy story-telling in the franchise - but its initial objective of showing the many different characters with unusual abilities did well. Maybe if it had not been rushed and waited for Bryan Singer (whose X-1 & X-2 were both very well-received) to come back to the franchise, maybe it would have been a very good illustration of how the mutants fared - positively or even negatively.
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Post by mamaleh on Apr 4, 2024 17:21:08 GMT -5
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