“Do the work” – Julian Simpson

“The industry now is contracting and adapting. I would argue that the changes it is undergoing are changes for the better. I’ve spoken to a lot of movie execs over the last few weeks and not one of them has any interest in trying to set up a $200 million movie at a streamer; they’re all talking in terms of more modestly budgeted movies that might sell tickets at an actual movie theatre. The TV people still think there is a market for drama, but it has shrunk – the ideas need to be better, the budgets need to be significantly lower. And I think we’re slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y moving away from the godawful notion that everything has to be based on something else”

https://developmenthell.substack.com/p/do-the-work