Kathleen Kennedy retiring this year

crows · 2025-02-26T19:52:55-0500

Otomofan said:
Of course it's nowhere near ready....but it IS coming. And it will change...EVERYTHING.

Look at the "Will Smith Eating Spaghetti" video and then look at what they can make just a year later.

My nephew is five. He already has no concept of "broadcast" television. TV is just this thing you turn on and then you have infinite choices at your fingertips.

Kids born today aren't going to have a concept of what "making a movie" means.

"Wait, you're saying you had to get a bunch of people together in the SAME room, with costumes, and they had to act things out? Why?? That's ridiculous!"

Wor-Gar said:
Yeah... future filmmaking -- not all, but much -- will be more like animation... artists may look at it like painting.

A single person will be able to make a movie, just like a single person can write a book. It will be the "new visual novels" of a future generation. The new graphic novel. And its not that far away. 10-20 years.

the problem is getting consistent results. it's really really hard to get consistent exact results.

Wor-Gar · 2025-02-26T20:05:58-0500

That will get solved.

ZE_501 · 2025-02-26T21:03:57-0500

crows said:
did CGI ever hurt that set design job stuff ?
ai will probably end up being like CGI.

Since the exponential growth of tech makes things like AI unpredictable and disruptive, in the long term I don't know what it's going to do to the industry as I currently understand it. If a 'Garage Kubrick' can make a good movie by themselves some day, then yes, designers in their current roles are toast. At that point there are no 'departments' or department heads, are there? But as you say, we're not there and likely won't be for some time.

Currently CG environments get designed and dropped into things like the Volume, but not before multiple vendors, artists and technicians have had their way with the model on various types of specialized software. That's not cheap.

The Volume is great for environmental effects and can sometimes negate the need for large Set Dec crews by creating depth and the illusion of far-off horizons and complex environments, but it's usually more expensive. The trade-off is a great deal of control for more money and time, but that's not going to affect your average 2-5 season comedy or drama.

I think all things considered, I've got at least 10-15 years in any of my preferred roles, but this industry gets affected by all kinds of things from politics to technology and I've already dodged a bullet or two.

Wor-Gar · 2025-02-26T21:15:55-0500

Don't worry... 99.9% of the future "Garage Kubricks" will NOT be Kubricks, and their films likely as trashy as 80's straight-to-video.

We've had handheld movie studios for quite some time and I'm still waiting for the Hitchcock of the cellphone to arise.

It's Syndrome's promise: ...and when everyone is a filmmaking auteur... no one will be.

ZE_501 · 2025-02-26T21:22:03-0500

Wor-Gar said:
Don't worry... 99.9% of the future "Garage Kubricks" will NOT be Kubricks, and their films likely as trashy as 80's straight-to-video.

We've had handheld movie studios for quite some time and I'm still waiting for the Hitchcock of the cellphone to arise.

It's Syndrome's promise: ...and when everyone is a filmmaking auteur... no one will be.

Well there's that. Even talented, experienced groups of people can come together and fail to make a good film. I imagine a lone amateur with the power of advanced AI can fail just as easily if not more so.

jaztermareal · 2025-02-27T05:38:37-0500

KitbashOfficer said:
You guys are all naming franchises that were phenomenal...until crashing down under their own bloat. Producers and studios don't seem to be learning the lesson.

Most of us love the NFL...would you still watch it if the season was 30 games?

Producers and studios thinking that people want more more more and the answer is to give more but it isn't. Give less with higher quality and some originality from time to time that is familiar but different. That formula never fails.

People gladly tune in weekly for many tv shows and they do not tire even after a dozen seasons, so a show or two that lasts a few weeks and movie per year really is not stretching it at all. It isn't a quantity issue but a quality one. If the quality doesn't keep you hooked you will tire after just 3 entries. If every show/movie is great or at least good we won't mind watching a couple shows plus 1-3 movies per year. You will be itching to see what comes next.