Moe Lane's Blog, page 862
September 24, 2020
The Snyder Cut will cost 70 million to reshoot.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
The so-called “Snyder Cut” of “Justice League” will be a 4-hour-long, episodic presentation on HBO MAX, created with a budget of around $70 million. And while initial reporting held that no additional filming would occur and new material would largely consist of special effects work, that clearly has changed.
…Yes. Yes, clearly it has. Geektyrant feels, I think, that Zac Snyder has captured HBO Max’s heart so tightly that they’re going to give him all this money. As for me? …Well. I suspect another part of HBO Max’s anatomy is involved.
‘Star Wars, but it’s Mission Impossible.’
(Via GeekTyrant) Took me a second to realize why no James Earl Jones.
The conceit here is that these are all the good guys — including Peter Cushing, who is clearly going to do a face-heel turn in the show and that’s the twist. Jones is playing an obvious villain, and they don’t get cast billing (or whatever the term is) in a show like Mission: Impossible, since it’s an ensemble show with a bad guy of the week. This is really a pretty clever conceit.
Listening to a @BackerKit webinar at the moment.
Which in of itself is not that interesting, at least to people who are not me*; but I do want to plug BackerKit itself. I got it primarily because I wanted help getting the stuff out of the door (or into the in-boxes), and figured it was worth the cost. However: it still paid for itself, in the end. Making a profit on something that I was happily treating as a sunk cost is nothing to sneeze at.
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*But it is interesting. Advertising and marketing stuff. I’ve added an actual advertising budget to the next one, so it’s of interest to me.
09/24/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
Oh, good. I figured out how it ends.
Patreon!Farmer Pierce — well, Mister Pierce, now — at first did not want to meet me at all; and when we did meet, he insisted that it be in a particular gas station parking lot. When I pulled up, he was already there, and inside his sparkling clean truck. And he would not come out until after I actually called him again on his phone.
When he did get out, I was surprised: the man was wearing a plastic raincoat and rubber gloves over what looked like a disposable hospital gown and pants, a hairnet, and an environmental mask. He wouldn’t go more than six inches from his car, either, and insisted I stay well downwind.
I found this… well, I found this utterly typical of the region. “If I’d known you’d do this, I’d have gone with the call!” I half-shouted at him. “When do you wash yourself down with bleach?”
“I have some back at the new place!” he said back, and I don’t think he was joking. “But you seem like a nice girl, so I thought you should get warned face-to-face!”
Tweet of the Day, I Don’t Believe It For A Second edition.
Sure, it’s a ‘prop.’ …Suuuuuuuuuure.
Shocked workers encounter 'giant rat' while cleaning sewers https://t.co/7lP6N2aJAI pic.twitter.com/MnfbBYPkm5
— New York Post (@nypost) September 24, 2020
Okay it is a prop – but that story is still what the Esoterrorists RPG would use as an example of a ‘veil-out:’ where you come up with a fake story to explain away a supernatural event. In this case: giant rats in the sewers! Nah, man, it’s just a movie prop.
Classic.
September 23, 2020
‘The Saga Begins.’
There’s a lot to say about PHANTOM MENACE, but at least we got this out of it.
The TRUTH SEEKERS Amazon series trailer.
This is a Nick Frost and Simon Pegg affair, although I think Simon’s just going to show up here and there. It’s mostly Nick, and that’s all right with me. Dude could use some front-row time.
TRUTH SEEKERS looks like fun. God knows when I’ll make time to see it, though.
I TOLD you Snyder would get to shoot more scenes for JUSTICE LEAGUE.
I absolutely freaking told all of you. They told Zac Snyder ‘No’ when they signed him to do The Snyder Cut of JUSTICE LEAGUE, he smiled and nodded in apparent agreement, and then I said “Won’t work.” And here we now are:
THR is now reporting that additional scenes will, in fact, be shot with Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg. These reshoots will take place next month.
See? Listen to Uncle Moe, for he is wise and cynical in these things. …And probably stuck with getting HBO Max now. Yay.
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