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Ahtman wrote: It has always been a bit odd that there are Unions for actors, producers, directors, writers, and trade unions for crew, but not for the FX teams.
Guessing it’s kind of a modernity hangover? VFX has of course been in use more or less since cinema started. But it’s not until Star Wars that films really embraced them, so 46 or so years ago. Compared to SAG-AFTRA, which has its roots in two unions that began in the 1930’s.
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Ahtman wrote: It has always been a bit odd that there are Unions for actors, producers, directors, writers, and trade unions for crew, but not for the FX teams.
FX teams largely grew out of the same crunch culture as the rest of Silicon Valley. Dream jobs for many that over time got too complicated for small teams of people who viewed it as a passion project, but the underlying culture made normalizing exploitative working conditions pretty easy for executives who have worked very very hard to keep these teams convinced they should consider themselves lucky. The industry has just matured, people feel how much of their life they've sacrificed for increasingly less reward, but honestly its just been a trend of the last decade or so of brazen greed that's really forced people to take action.
I just wish that he brought up the rescue of the people the Skrulls kidnapped and kept on the radioactive base who seemed fine. Barely inconvenienced actually.
I just wish that he brought up the rescue of the people the Skrulls kidnapped and kept on the radioactive base who seemed fine. Barely inconvenienced actually.
Knocks it out of the park again. I'm sure the MCU stans aren't enthused about the way the MCU is headed, but at least it's giving us indirect entertainment through content like this.
I am sure it was posted around here somewhere, but I saw a snippet from Disney's Earnings call that Iger wanted to slow down on producing Marvel and Star Wars content.
Interesting times.
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Bizarrely, DIsney decided to have someone write the Scott Lang 'autobiography' from Quantumania and publish it as a real book.
Its one part terrible first person stream-of-consciousness waffle and one part summary of the MCU to date. Complete with random black & white movie stills inserted randomly in the text the way real biographies generally don't do (usually the go-to is 8 or 16 pages of plates towards the center of the book, so the binding doesn't fall apart)
I assume it appeals to somebody, but it looks as trashy as it sounds.
I assume there's a reason why the book is coming out months after the relevant film (the release date is this coming tuesday), but I also assume its someone's screw up.
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Voss wrote: Bizarrely, DIsney decided to have someone write the Scott Lang 'autobiography' from Quantumania and publish it as a real book.
Its one part terrible first person stream-of-consciousness waffle and one part summary of the MCU to date. Complete with random black & white movie stills inserted randomly in the text the way real biographies generally don't do (usually the go-to is 8 or 16 pages of plates towards the center of the book, so the binding doesn't fall apart)
I assume it appeals to somebody, but it looks as trashy as it sounds.
I assume there's a reason why the book is coming out months after the relevant film (the release date is this coming tuesday), but I also assume its someone's screw up.
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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Pretty sure the Swarovski Marvel crystal statue things got released today because there was a queue outside the outlet in my city centre with about 4 or 5 security dudes kicking about.
EXCLUSIVE: With a deal in place with the Writers Guild, studios have begun taking aim at setting writers for their open assignments. Marvel Studios is looking to set the bar with what will likely become one of the more sought-after jobs for any scribe.
Sources tell Deadline that Marvel will start setting writer meetings later this fall for pitches on its anticipated X-Men movie. Insiders add there is no rush to fill the job since the film hasn’t been dated yet, and it’s more than likely that writer decision will be made at the top of 2024. Marvel declined comment.
So, we'll see a film in four to five years barring any major delays (there's always delays)...
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
My minorest of issues is last season we ended with seeing two Möbiuses at the same time on different floors of the TVA, and this season seems to kind of pretend that didn’t happen like nah we changed our mind and want to do this differently.
AduroT wrote:My minorest of issues is last season we ended with seeing two Möbiuses at the same time on different floors of the TVA, and this season seems to kind of pretend that didn’t happen like nah we changed our mind and want to do this differently.
I don't believe that is what we saw. At the end of the last season I thought we were looking at 2 entirely different TVAs (Since Loki's had the big ol Kang Statue that wasn't there before). Like... now that the Multiverse had branched out that Loki got dumped into a different Variant version of the TVA. This episode cleared up what that is since it starts right where the last one left off.
Oh, and there’s a mid-credits scene so stay tuned.
That horrified me more than anything else in the episode. I remember those places at that time. What was asked for is nauseating.
Small Easter Egg of the comics...
Spoiler:
Broxton Oklahoma (where Sylvie showed up) is where, after Ragnarok, Thor resurrected Asgard on Earth. In the comics just outside of Broxton there was a floating city of Asgard for a bit. It's also where and about the time that the comics version of Sylvie was introduced. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Broxton
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That was an excellent first episode. They nailed the strange and unsettling vibe of the TVA from the first season. Thoroughly enjoyed the new temporal tech support character as well.
‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business Launched during the pandemic with a playbook to shoot $150 million-plus seasons with no pilots, the Disney unit is undergoing growing pains and seeing the logic of "traditional TV culture."
It didn’t take long to see the problem after Marvel Studios’ Daredevil: Born Again paused production in mid-June during the writers strike. Fewer than half of the series’ 18 episodes had been shot, but it was enough for Marvel executives, including chief Kevin Feige, to review the footage and come away with a clear-eyed assessment: The show wasn’t working.
So, in late September, Marvel quietly let go of head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman and also released the directors for the remainder of the season as part of a significant creative reboot of the series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The studio is now on the hunt for new writers and directors for the project, which stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer turned superhero.
More at the link above.
I think this is a good thing. Most D+ MCU shows are boring and badly plotted at best (F&TWS, Hawkeye), absolute abominations at worst (She-Hulk, Secret Invasion), and in many cases only their great leads help to carry some semblance of a story (Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight). And with the rumours regarding Echo and Agetha being dumpster fires, perhaps taking a new approach and fixing what isn't working is the best way forward.
Still, Loki Season 2 is so far pretty good.
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‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business Launched during the pandemic with a playbook to shoot $150 million-plus seasons with no pilots, the Disney unit is undergoing growing pains and seeing the logic of "traditional TV culture."
It didn’t take long to see the problem after Marvel Studios’ Daredevil: Born Again paused production in mid-June during the writers strike. Fewer than half of the series’ 18 episodes had been shot, but it was enough for Marvel executives, including chief Kevin Feige, to review the footage and come away with a clear-eyed assessment: The show wasn’t working.
So, in late September, Marvel quietly let go of head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman and also released the directors for the remainder of the season as part of a significant creative reboot of the series, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The studio is now on the hunt for new writers and directors for the project, which stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer turned superhero.
More at the link above.
I think this is a good thing. Most D+ MCU shows are boring and badly plotted at best (F&TWS, Hawkeye), absolute abominations at worst (She-Hulk, Secret Invasion), and in many cases only their great leads help to carry some semblance of a story (Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight). And with the rumours regarding Echo and Agetha being dumpster fires, perhaps taking a new approach and fixing what isn't working is the best way forward.
Still, Loki Season 2 is so far pretty good.
Glad they're finally acknowledging that they can't keep steering the ship in the same direction and that clearly quality rather than quantity is the way to go moving forward in the MCU. I know we have insane Marvel stans that will basically eat up anything Disney sharts out but that's not enough to offset the clear fatigue amongst the rest of the audience that's been built up from all the poor offerings from the past few years. Still skeptical if this will result in anything more than a token gesture in terms of their approach but we'll see I guess. The only thing I'm remotely interested in coming out is Deadpool 3 and that's a maybe.
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