I wished they’d used an official image. It’s really odd.
But it was the first petition up so it’s the one with traction.
This one is coming up on my rewatch list.
I’ll resist looking that stuff up.
Cool. I think I’ll be supporting this one.
I’ve been having fun getting new and interesting games through kickstarter campaigns.
My partner is finding this eye rolling, as I’m roping them and one of our teens into play testing. But, I look forward to taking some of these to our regional gaming convention. It’s nice to be able to offer some fresh games with licensed media.
I’m really wondering how Legendary Entertainment is going to reconcile the much more grounded television offerings with the comic style over the top extravaganzas that the later movies became.
The 2027 movie is expected to feature Space Godzilla.
And as you note, there’s the ongoing power ups to Kong — mainly through help from Apex — that leave the Monsterverse franchise wide open to traditional kaiju/Toho fan criticism that its Godzilla is a GINO (Godzilla in name only).
Shaw and Suzuki test a “Titan phone” designed to summon Godzilla, triggering an unforeseen event that puts Shaw in the path of his own past.
Once again, a somewhat spoilery official teaser clip has been shared with media — available in this article
One suspects that the communications pros at Amazon-MGM decided that they couldn’t let this story have legs, informed Weir’s agent that he had to make some immediate effort to quell the controversy.
As a Canadian, I’ not going to rate that highly as an apology.
It’s rather a sorry, not sorry, let’s be buds and talk some (unspecified) time
But it may play differently in a US cultural setting.
It’s interesting that he felt he needed to do that though.
Cerebral is definitely not the way I would characterize Weir’s writing.
Middle school or YA science fiction is more like it. I first encountered his work when it was recommended for one of our kids.
It’s popular science level stuff. Fun, popcorn stuff.
I do like and read cerebral science fiction.
As an example for contrast, I would suggest the Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee, starting with Ninefox Gambit. It’s more on the speculative mathematicians side but it made me think more about topology and probabilistic spaces than I have had to since grad school. All the intellectual fun without the grind.
Let’s compare this to Tarantino, Sussman, and many others that have made pitches on the film and television side over the past decade.
They’ve all felt they had a great idea, they’ve been quite public about having pitched it, and they’ve attempted to build up fan interest and momentum.
If Weir had just done the same, I don’t think there’d be any adverse effect. Likely, the opposite in the current environment.
Instead, he took his moment in the sun not to pitch his idea to the public, or say that he had an idea that wasn’t viewed as fitting with where the franchise was then but perhaps it might be reconsidered: He took his moment in the sun to retaliate.
Why would a producer want to risk hearing a pitch from him in future?
This is fairly analogous to banks looking the other way at money laundering.
It points to the need for either more strict reporting and purchasing controls within the firm or more regulation.
Banks have tightened their internal policies to avoid more active government intervention to reduce money laundering.
Investors will get the analogy. A bank that let money laundering go unchecked and is facing scrutiny and a need to change protocols would see an adverse reaction from investors. No reason why Nvidia would not experience the same.
Don Winslow can speak from his own success, and seems to have a significant and longstanding social media following.
It’s interesting that he’s chosen to use his platform to weigh in on this and say that Weir owes Kurtzman an apology.
I’ve said enough about my own reaction on another thread. Winslow’s reaction makes me wonder if Weir’s transparent retaliation may make studios and production companies unwilling to hear his pitches in future.
My career was in a very different hierarchy but I was always told to be ‘nice to others on my way up if I expect them to be nice to me on my way down.’
In Santa Soledad, Titan X becomes a target for Apex, forcing Shaw and the Randas to infiltrate the covert experiment.
Once again, a somewhat spoilery official teaser clip has been shared with media — available in this article.
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Amazon took on another 3 seasons of The Expanse with about 130k, Netflix did an additional full 20 episode season of *Star Trek: Prodigy with 35k.
More than that, 32.5 k is a lot for one of these petitions in this amount of time. We don’t know what it will level off at.
The rate of signings is accelerating, with nearly 5k in the past 24 hours.