Hollywood is on Strike

[CoffeeHorse]

I just wish the writers held out longer. The effect this is having on studios is far more entertaining than their output these days.

I hope that when the actors finally get a deal, somebody else immediately begins striking so this keeps going. Maybe the VFX artists. They have been seriously abused in recent years, and the studios do not know how to function without them.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Hear me out here, I got a wild idea, but it's so crazy it might. Just. Work.

Nation wide... valet strike.

 

[Ungnome]

I'd be okay with having a statute of limitations on it. I would love to see this technology used to recreate some lost film scenes. But what studios are asking for here is nuts.

Yea, say maybe 50 years. By that time even the actor's children are likely dead.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Basically I want to AI the cast of the English version of Dracula (1931) into footage from the Spanish version. I feel like that would be entirely harmless.

 

[The Predaking]

I am confused as to why you would want that.

 

[Ungnome]

Best not to question such things. One might not like the answer.

 

[Deathy G1]

If CoffeeHorse can have that, can I have Fight Club with the cast of The Goonies?

Also, it looks like the strike might be done.

 

[Caldwin]

Can I get the Robocop remake with Peter Weller and Nancy Allen?

 

[Axaday]

Hollywood is on Strike​

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Isn't.

 

[wonko the sane?]

I have read NOTHING!

But I guess the tentative deal didn't go far enough on the AI stuff, cause they seemed like they were happy with the money.

 

[Cybersnark]

Whole bunch of stuff on the SAG-AFTRA twitter which I can't share because twitter (it was posted on Discord), but here's a reconstructed url:

https://twitter.com/sagaftra/status/1722441057571684724

Strike ended as of last night. The studios' "final offer" was rejected and rewritten, and this is the new deal that appears to give the actors what they wanted.

 

[The Predaking]

Woot! I am glad that they got what they deserved.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I am confused as to why you would want that.

Because the Spanish version has a few shots that are better (far fewer than it gets credit for), but more importantly its continuity is closer to the script. The English version got cut down and things got rearranged, and nobody remembers why.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Of course nobody remembers why. It was made a hundred years ago.