Amazon's Tomb Raider series reportedly 'dead' after tens of millions in development costs resulted in no script

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The great thing about comic book and videogame “inspired” movies if they come pre-written. This doesn’t sound like they were ever serious about making a series off the IP, I suspect a gacha game will be released from Amazon games.

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  • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s also why they always suck. Storytelling in a video game works a lot differently than in film. For example you can skip a lot of exposition since the player already embodies the main character rather than having to build them up. Also a lot of game protagonists work the best as an empty shell into which the players can project themselves, unlike in movies.

    I’m convinced the only reason Arcane was good was because the game it’s based on doesn’t really have a story, just lore.

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Embezzlement

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• Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a good thing because it would’ve been a shitshow anyway. With the way that ‘masculinity’ is being wielded these days, regardless of how attractive the actor was, the likes of Asmongold (who looks like a fucking humanoid rat himself) and PissDrinker and whoever else would’ve been making videos about her boobs being too small or having hair on her arms or being the wrong colour or not acting enough like a lady or some shit. And the ‘alpha’ hordes of mouth breathers would’ve been throwing them their money and circlejerking themselves into a frenzy over it.

  And that poor actor that thought she had a cool role and opportunity in the acting world would’ve been getting death and rape threats and told that she’s actually a man and all sorts of other abuse.

  We don’t deserve a Tomb Raider movie. What we deserve an entire series of Minecraft movies where the humans can go and throw their popcorn around like apes throwing shit, and Jack Black acting as Jack Black can sing us nonsensical songs. Because that’s about the level of brain rot and general intelligence that the world is at right now.

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  • Condiment2085@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We deserve a Skibidi Toilet franchise.

    Well said

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  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Let’s be real, a skibidi toilet franchise would be significantly worse than normal skibidi toilet.

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    • zabadoh@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Get a good writer, and you can make a good movie or TV show out of anything.

      The caveat being that there are very few good writers out there.

      And even less who would be willing to work on something like this.

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• GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey, I’m doing nothing for free. Can i have a million or two? Orders of magnitude cheaper for the exact same result!

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• Deebster@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think I’ll wait for a better source than the Daily Mail before I consider it dead.

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sucks for fans but anything that costs Besos millions is fine by me.

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• kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mr. Bezos, I have an amazing script I am willing to sell you for just 500,000 dollars. Plz dm me

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• ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  WIPO: Commodify ideas, it will be great!

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