D&D Movie/TV ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Live-Action Series Not Going Forward At Paramount+, Will Be Revamped & Shopped By Hasbro

[Wolfpack48]

No joke, I think there is potential for a firecracker biopic about Gary Gygax.

It wouldn't be pretty, but it could be very interesting.

Watch Tbe Founder on Ray Kroc sometime. Gygax would make for a pretty fascinating biopic.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't think Paramount Plus will survive, and I should be cancelling my subscription soon now that Star Trek: Discovery is over, and renewing it whenever Star Trek: Lower Decks comes back before cancelling again.

The one streaming service I won't cancel is Netflix because it's the most ubiquitous one.

Netflix is our forever streamer similar reason. Also bundled with ISP.

Amazon and Disney might become floaters. See how the Acolyte is and Amazon recently have us new season of Clarksons Farm and Fallout with new season of The Boys around the corner. It's also cheap and movie back catalog.

 

[Zardnaar]

Costs and wages are much lower in Japan than many other countries and it seems like they’re starting to have an issue with low wages like many other countries

$20,000 annual pay: Japan's weak yen drives away Asian talent

Companies face trouble recruiting students from China, Taiwan and South Korea

asia.nikkei.com

They're also notorious for labour exploitation in that sector.

 

[mamba]

I wouldn't watch it, but I could see it being really popular.

that is the first sign for it not working

 

[mamba]

Counterpoint, the actual investment docs that are a legal doc

they show a loss…

 

[mamba]

Costs and wages are much lower in Japan than many other countries

but not by a factor of 5, and that would hit my reduced numbers, otherwise it is a factor of 11 vs Mad Max…

 

[CommodoreKong]

but not by a factor of 5, and that would hit my reduced numbers, otherwise it is a factor of 12 vs Mad Max…

Yeah that’s true.
I haven’t seen the new Mad Max but based on Fury Road I’m guessing there’s a major difference in scope for the action/SFX scenes compared to Minus One. Fury Road had a ton of action scenes which cost a lot of money especially since some of it was done practically while Minus One had only a couple of Godzilla scenes (not to say that was a bad thing as Minus One was one of my favorite movies last year). I’m sure some of the stars of Mad Max got paid more than the entire Minus One budget.

 

[mamba]

I’m sure some of the stars of Mad Max got paid more than the entire Minus One budget.

pretty sure too, these salaries do not appear to be sustainable with the current box office trends...

 

[CommodoreKong]

pretty sure too, these salaries do not appear to be sustainable with the current box office trends...

Oh yeah very much so. It's a few years old but I recently read this book on how the Hollywood business model was changing and it was very interesting:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073XBSMVY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_351_o07?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Shardstone]

It worked for The Princess Bride and The Neverending Story. Far from “beer and pretzels trash not really worth time watching,” they’re both all-time classics.

True, a skilled enough writer could make it work.