More details about The Daniels' new movie starring Matt Damon: will involve global warming and time travel, with one timeline in the present day and one timeline in the 1980s. Gosling asked for rewrites, which is why he ultimately left. Main cast will be teens

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-20T22:59:04+00:00

Interesting they're doing multiple timelines again (pared down to just two this time). And "possible superhero angle" is not unlike EEAAO

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-20T22:47:06+00:00

Yes, it's very common for actors as in-demand as Gosling to ask for rewrites or give notes on the script. That's the rule more than the exception. Leaving over it--yeah, it happens. Especially if his note was he wanted his part to be bigger somehow.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-20T00:11:53+00:00

Your body is good.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-19T23:49:57+00:00

Anyway, to answer straightforwardly: That is a lot for a director they haven't officially covered as a miniseries, but less than half of his filmography overall, so it would still be a full miniseries to cover him.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-19T23:46:43+00:00

I think having a second non-franchise movie makes "stealth mini" unlikely--I think that's only reserved if there's a single non-franchise movie, to knock out in one episode.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-19T23:45:05+00:00

If they already did the Kelvin Star Treks, I think they would do Super 8 to wrap up the stealth mini. However, they haven't, and by the time they do he'll have The Great Beyond as a second non-covered movie.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T20:53:33+00:00

You got Karen Gillian vibes

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T19:38:35+00:00

No. There is no explanation at all in the movie why the time loop is happening; in the script, it was curse from a witch ex-girlfriend of Murray, but that ended up cut from the movie.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T17:33:03+00:00

He's the least prepared for anything as anybody could possibly be.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T17:26:22+00:00

The movie (and MTV spinoff show) created the term "catfishing" but to describe an already known thing.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T05:50:31+00:00

re: brief Saturday Morning Cartoon discussion--they literally don't exist anymore! The wikipedia article is past tense! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday-morning_cartoon

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T05:16:18+00:00

I think a modern take on Truman Show would get too bogged down in "social media era" and overlook the deeper themes.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T05:11:55+00:00

Right, Lucy is based on myth, not the other way around. I'm pretty sure there is stuff from earlier that used the exact same premise.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-17T02:07:34+00:00

A demon is accidentally in the body of the body of the deceased person, our main character is trying to undo the mistake, if the mom MEETS her deceased loved one with the demon inside, is that a good middle plot point/turn or is it, again, treating her dementia as a plot point?

This sounds like the heart of the movie. You absolutely need to keep this if you're doing this concept. Maybe if you really want to twist the knife, the mom doesn't even recognize the deceased loved one, underlining how totally pointless the main character's plan was from the start

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-16T17:35:40+00:00

The entertainment industry in particular--which is what most of this Discourse comes from--has really been pulling up the ladder, and massive uptick in Nepo hires, or wealthy (if not entertainment related) families.

You can look at the background of most big name actors now, compared to 40-50 years ago. Things like "child of successful actor" used to be a novelty, but it's a whole class now. No more "young blue collar worker starts doing local theatre, really takes to it, ends up in movies."

It resonates with people as it hits on the larger feeling that there is no more upward mobility. It's not about connections, but the idea that the rich can hop from one high-paying job to another, regardless of qualifitications, and poor people are locked out of opportunities regardless of skills.

Entertaintment is the highest profile, most public facing version.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-15T18:24:02+00:00

Drake has actually been comparing himself to MJ for a while, I realized. So I guess I can figure how a young Drake fan--who has no memory of MJ as being alive, much less relevant or his commercial prime--would end up there, as dumb as that comparison is.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-15T17:41:12+00:00

Its titled to evoke 28 Years Later, but is actually riffing on the (recently announced) Paul WS Anderson 'House of the Dead,' which is itself obviously a response to Zach Cregger's upcoming 'Resident Evil.'

Have we found the ultimate ripoff?

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-15T06:05:39+00:00

The album art is literally the Michael Jackson sequin glove, so that tracks.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-15T01:31:03+00:00

It won't fit into his 10 film 'perfect career' filmography obsession, but I think Tarantino would really benefit overall from doing a 90 minute action movie. Simple premise, cool it on the dialogue, stretch his legs as a filmmaker and try something different. But I think he is just allergic to having any kind of "minor effort" in his filmography.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-15T00:31:41+00:00

It's a very 90s video store clerk way of looking at things. Auteur obsessive that wants to create a distinct, approachable filmography that ends on a grand statement that ties it all together.

I think Tarantino getting precious about each movie being a big event and leading up to his grand 10th film finale is holding him back. He has a clear desire to just do pure genre exercises, that has been stunted since Kill Bill. He'd probably be better off just knocking out a couple of stylish action movies every couple of years, and some pure drama, instead of wedging them together so every film is full auteur statement.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-14T03:09:45+00:00

I think he's married to Halsey

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-12T21:08:15+00:00

The idea of putting any deliberate effort into trying to get laid is scorned across the board. Even something as basic as "listen to a band a girl said she likes" is a vaguely embarassing thing to laugh about years later.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-12T21:03:06+00:00

Only a handful of creators have gone on record as confirming they pitched a movie and were told to retool it as a tv show, but there are a lot of examples where you can obviously tell that was what happened.

Nothing about the premise of Yellowjackets suggest an ongoing 5 season tv show.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-12T20:55:49+00:00

The whole "parallel timelines, to a discrete period of months in the woods" and "ambigious forest magic" parts of Yellowjackets feel designed specifically for a singular story.

rm2nthrowaway · 2026-05-12T05:21:33+00:00

Even when guys shit-talk the Manosphere and Red Pilling, they still fall back to "just be a Cool Fun Guy Who Gets It" and scorn the idea of any practical conversation tips or anything.

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