“They get really good filmmakers to do those movies and obviously they get really good actors,” “The Bear” star said, but he doesn’t regret how he played a meeting for ̶…
Hollywood could build an entire city out of unused scripts. The problem is not a lack of ideas, it's a lack of tolerance for risk. If you could invest $100 of your own money in a movie, where would you put it? Sequels, action flicks, comic book movies, they have a built-in audience. New stories have to compete with known IPs, and awards don't mean financial success.
There are plenty of ideas. The problem is the people running the studios have no interest in the art of filmmaking.
Like every other American economic sector, Hollywood has been taken over by private shareholder proxies demanding studios maximize short term profit formulas literally at the expense of the point of the industry. This means making established IPs over bold, original, innovative aka "risky" scripts.
Thank late stage capitalism for the decline of movies, games, medicine, education, etc. Thank sanctioned insatiable greed as a virtue in the US.
Hollywood scriptwriting follows a very strict set of rules now. It's not just marvel, most big budget movies are carbon copies of the same pattern of up and down beats.
Some people will think that the pinnacle of their career is when they make the most money.
In the arts, that's often when they felt most creatively fulfilled.
There's been some seriously good actors in the MCU, but do you really think Angela Bassett, Natalie Portman or Christian Bale view their MCU roles as the height of their career?
Those roles were paychecks. That's ok, but don't go around pretending they were something else.
Totally agree. Superhero movies are bottom-of-the-barrel. They’re a perfect example of how popular ≠ good. And because of them, we have very few quality films being released.
Absolutely. So much superhero & cgi garbage. I think about how many amazing scripts and screenplay are just overlooked. Then they wanna start having ai write
“I had a meeting for a kind of Marvel-y movie, and I had an attitude,” White said. “I think I played it all wrong.” He said he told the Marvel executives, “‘Tell me about why should I do your movie,'” which did not come off well. “They were like, ‘Fuck you,'” White recalled, “and I was like, ‘Right on.'”
having self respect vs MCU execs is a legit super power though
Back in the 1970s, you could make a movie for the cost of a large house. A studio could finance a lot of movies and take risks. Now $100 million for a movie is the norm. You want to take as few risks as possible. That means using popular actors over and over.