The brand new Apple TV+ collection The Studio takes us behind the scenes with Continental Studios. The brand new head of the film studio, Matt Remick (Seth Rogan), tries to steadiness his artistic imaginative and prescient with extra IP pushed properties. A kind of being Kool-Assist.
His first mission as the pinnacle of the studio is discover a director for a film concerning the Kool-Assist man, á la the Barbie film. Making an attempt to navigate the success of that film (due to Greta Gerwig’s concept and imaginative and prescient), Matt finds himself torn between doing what his boss desires him to do and likewise attempting to make artwork. A part of that artwork is Martin Scorsese’s film primarily based on the Jonestown Bloodbath.
The Jonestown Bloodbath is, to place it calmly, why we are saying that somebody “drank the Kool-Assist.” For a second, Matt is attempting to promote this as their “Kool-Assist” mission and even convinces Scorsese to call it simply “Kool-Assist” however the powers that be win out. As a substitute, Nick Stoller is engaged on a script for it that takes the Kool-Assist man to “brand” city and his Kool-Assist daughter has to save lots of the day.
Whereas your complete dilemma is each a commentary on the state of the movie trade and our lack of belief in creatives, I do assume that the 2 motion pictures being pitched for the studio would actually make a reasonably wild (and enjoyable) double characteristic.
I’d pull a Barbenheimer for the Kool-Aids
Scorsese’s tackle Jonestown and Stoller’s take a look at IP are each jokes. I get that. BUT in case you have been to throw up these two motion pictures as a again to again characteristic, displaying the optimistic facet of Kool-Assist blended with one of many extra notorious mass murders? I’d watch that the day it was launched and be so pleased about it. It actually is an ideal mixture between gentle hearted and how much motion pictures are designed to emotionally wreck us.
Or, if that is really like Barbenheimer, they each can damage to look at. However I’d argue {that a} double characteristic of those two motion pictures would have made this one studio a lot cash. As a substitute, they have been so apprehensive about ensuring that solely one in every of their motion pictures acquired made.
Think about if Barbenheimer was one studio, it’s a win-win state of affairs! The creatives featured in The Studio had an ideal method to recreate that however as an alternative, they targeted solely on simply a kind of motion pictures. Fools! You’re introduced into the world of Kool-Assist, totally behind the model and you then get to look at the model’s destruction after what occurred in Jonestown! That’s perfection.
So whereas Matt is extra apprehensive about appeasing everybody (and lacking out on the right method to promote this double characteristic), I’m right here to say that if a studio desires to make some huge cash, simply go forward and do one thing like this. You a minimum of know that I’d have quite a lot of enjoyable with it. And isn’t that what you all need? A bunch of memes and cash about your motion pictures?
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