And the downside is: Denzel in Equalizer at least fit to the character. Which is probably why no one cared about it.
If it was made now, you would probably have trouble getting it off the ground. Then again, he has gotten on the bad side of a lot of the Hollywood types because, much like Morgan Freeman, he is not a race-obsessed asshole, so they dont like him now.
The one good thing I suppose is that, from some of the Hollywood-adjacent channels I watch, it sounds like some studios are actually starting to change course slowly now because 1) they need the money and arent getting it through investment anymore, 2) investors they do have are starting to get on their ass about low viewership and sales, and 3) the success of Top Gun making all of the money while both catering to the US market and shunning the China and/or Hollywood market has some C-Suite executives berating their marketing people on the grounds of "How are you so bad at this, and why is everything you have been telling me wrong?!"
So it may turn around....in about 5 years because that is the lag time on most things coming out of Hollywood.
I m Have a little optimism like you do. But we shall see. I also hope they stop attacking fans. They make drastic changes to source material and then act shocked when the fans of said source material have pushback. But they have to know that the constant pushing of race/lgbt stuff as well as massive over representation is turning people off.
Denzel is one of my all time favorite actors and I live that interview where Freeman said stop talking about race.
When Denzel’s version came out that was before sleaze swapping became the rule and not the exception. So at the time I didn’t mind but I love the original. The queen latifah one is stupid. I was thinking you just couldn’t write a similar type of show?
Agreed. Defines woke casting. If you want to make a show like that considering her age or would make more sense for her to be in charge because her beating people up makes no sense but any show with a female lead today has to put men in their place. Must be a rule
And the downside is: Denzel in Equalizer at least fit to the character. Which is probably why no one cared about it.
If it was made now, you would probably have trouble getting it off the ground. Then again, he has gotten on the bad side of a lot of the Hollywood types because, much like Morgan Freeman, he is not a race-obsessed asshole, so they dont like him now.
The one good thing I suppose is that, from some of the Hollywood-adjacent channels I watch, it sounds like some studios are actually starting to change course slowly now because 1) they need the money and arent getting it through investment anymore, 2) investors they do have are starting to get on their ass about low viewership and sales, and 3) the success of Top Gun making all of the money while both catering to the US market and shunning the China and/or Hollywood market has some C-Suite executives berating their marketing people on the grounds of "How are you so bad at this, and why is everything you have been telling me wrong?!"
So it may turn around....in about 5 years because that is the lag time on most things coming out of Hollywood.
I m Have a little optimism like you do. But we shall see. I also hope they stop attacking fans. They make drastic changes to source material and then act shocked when the fans of said source material have pushback. But they have to know that the constant pushing of race/lgbt stuff as well as massive over representation is turning people off.
Denzel is one of my all time favorite actors and I live that interview where Freeman said stop talking about race.
When Denzel’s version came out that was before sleaze swapping became the rule and not the exception. So at the time I didn’t mind but I love the original. The queen latifah one is stupid. I was thinking you just couldn’t write a similar type of show?
Agreed. Defines woke casting. If you want to make a show like that considering her age or would make more sense for her to be in charge because her beating people up makes no sense but any show with a female lead today has to put men in their place. Must be a rule