You know what? After having a week to think about this, I think I’ve gotten over this whole situation. I already predicted at the beginning of the pandemic that theaters’ days are numbered, so oh well. AT&T sucks, but it can’t be helped.
Apparently, Patty Jenkins is supposed to direct the next Star Wars film. That seems like it lessens the odds of her coming back for a third Wonder Woman movie.
Since it seems like Charlie Cox apparently will be in this movie, I wonder if he’ll be treated as being from a different universe, or if they’re seriously going to try and wedge the Netflix shows into the MCU proper. Alternatively, maybe he’s going to play a different version of Daredevil from the one in the show.
Delaying the film no later than the end of August/beginning of September sure sounds like the kind of baffling decision that post-AT&T WB would come up with.
The Fantastic Beasts movies fell apart before the transphobia controversy with Rowling happened, although the movies already had plenty of other controversies before that. The most notable one was the inclusion of Johnny Depp, whether justified or not. Of course, the DC movies have been no stranger to controversy either.
People all over Reddit are acting like Nolan is being a sour grape about this, and that this is somehow all his fault. The hate bandwagon for him has been out in full force ever since the Tenet situation.
To be clear, Nolan is not the sole person in Hollywood who’s mad about this decision. WB and AT&T have reportedly screwed over a lot of people by making this decision without informing them about it beforehand. Even if you dislike Nolan, I’m not sure why this boneheaded decision needs to be defended.
Legendary ending their partnership with WB wouldn’t exactly be a big loss for them, but the idea that AT&T or whoever apparently didn’t bother informing Legendary about this beforehand is insane. How do you make a major decision like that without consulting your business partners?
Last movie I saw in theaters was The Way Back, and unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s gonna change by the end of this year. In fact, until Roku gets HBO Max, I’m not sure I’ll be able to watch this movie at all.
The one thing that makes me hopeful that Disney won’t try a stunt like this is that Disney+ is doing extremely well, so they should be far less desperate than AT&T/WarnerMedia.