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[–] 2 pts 2mo (edited 2mo)

I hadn’t heard…sad.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/branded-not-stirred-now-james-030619800.html

What will happen to it now? I don’t have a crystal ball, but we sort of know what will happen. Now owned by a company, Amazon MGM, whose essential mission is to convert movies into streaming content, the Bond series will likely be “expanded,” spun off into sideline franchises (“The Reign of M,” “The Blofeld Chronicles,” “Young Bond: License to Drive”), maybe serialized, and generally milked. The same thing will happen to it that happened to the “Star Wars” franchise after George Lucas relinquished control of that to Disney: It will be expanded so much that it will, in an essential way, be watered down, and the more that that happens, the more the producers will scramble to make up for the mistakes they’ve made, which can only mean one thing: Even more content! Strip-mining the mystique. Killing the golden goose by exploiting it into oblivion.

It will be the same as with lord of the rings. A woke reimagination and slaughter of a strong white male dominated piece of work.

[–] 1 pt 2mo

The LOTR fail was such a disappointment. It is a great IP and for them to waste it.. Just awful.

Same thing with what they did to Wheel of Time. They excel at fucking shit up.

[–] 1 pt 2mo

Lotr was a travesty…and completely predictable. I’m not familiar with wheel of time…is that a good book series worth checking out?

[–] 1 pt 2mo

I've been doing the audio books and I enjoy it. It can be a bit wordy, so I don't know that I would like it as much if I was reading it.

We had some discussion of it in this thread.

https://poal.co/s/Woke/747277