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Interesting: no streamer was interested in a mid-range budgeted (50 million) intelligent spy movie directed by Soderbergh with lots of movie stars…
Crazy.
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Interesting name
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Interesting indeed. It seems that he would only take this job though because nobody, not even independents will finance his own projects.
So, welcome to the IP empire.
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So, John Wick with a female protagonist and a cameo from Reeves.
The story was at an end. Now reheated leftovers. Yawn.
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I deliberately posted with no comment of my own knowing many on here are fans of the John Wick series. I don’t think it’s a very confident trailer with its near-constant references to Keanu Reeves and the accompanying characters from that world. The earlier teaser trailer with the flamethrower versus fire hose was a better trailer in my opinion. To each their own. Outside of Ana herself, I have little interest.
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As a friend of mine once said when asked who he would want to play him in a movie of his life:
“I want to play myself and I want my wife to be played by Ana de Armas.”
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It’s not a confident trailer because the studio, at this point, knows that this film is going to bomb massively at the box office.
A masterpiece of modern PR-speak…
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Wow…
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John Wick has been 4 hits so far. I consider 5 a lucky number, hopefully it will continue. There are other spinoffs in the John Wick universe planned, let’s see if they can be made!
Mixed opinions, I liked the first. But both Disney/Pixar need to start making more original movies again. I understand that they want franchises from a business standpoint, but most of their original stories are timeless. At least the theatrical sequels have generally been much better than the Disney Direct to Video garbage. Still, better Coco 2 than Cars 4. Also, I’m a hypocrite. Where’s Incredibles 3? Can’t be any worse than the average MCU movie. And Zootopia 2 is a rare sequel I’m looking forward to. It’s a shame that The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is bombing at the box office. I hope that Disney can go back to hand-drawn animation one day.
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Here‘s an idea: try original movies!
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It’s interesting that Universal allows to let others grab that IP.
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On the other hand, how much of actual substance is there? The films are nothing but a bloated CIA conspiracy action fest with a vanishingly thin political veneer. I doubt many people can recall their plots (or would be even interested in spending lifetime trying to). And the Bourne books have even less potential to mine.
If anything, Ludlum‘s other books were the really relevant ones, the rightwing-Nazi conspiracies that really take over states, crush the rule of law and set out to turn the clocks back 100 years. While Inver Brass and heroes to fight them sadly don’t seem to have counterparts in real life.
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Completely agreed.
I just find it curious that a studio lets go of IP they would otherwise milk forever.
In any event, some streamer will turn it into a show.
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There was this Treadstone thingy already (Netflix? I forget). Didn’t go for long if memory serves. But of course one might come up with an entirely generic action vehicle, Bourne Begins or something, depicting the assassination of the week. But it’s hard to see why they would spend money on a concept ChatGPT could cough them out for next to nothing. Wonder which streamer is going to pick that up.
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