Donald Trump gets an origin story, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield get a life story, and Pharrell Williams gets a life story told in little bricks in this week's new movies.
On the podcast The Town, they mentioned that after Lego Ninjago and the Lego Movie sequel didn't do well, Warner Bros let the rights to Lego lapse. Universal quickly pounced. Only they then found out they couldn't do anything with any characters established under Warner Bros, and they didn't really have any ideas of their own.
So they've just been sitting on the rights with nothing to do, and when Pharrell and Neville were working on coming up with a non-traditional approach to the biopic, Universal pitched the Lego idea so that they would have something to do with their property.
With the first trailer, I initially assumed maybe Pharrell had a deep personal connection to Legos and had really wanted to construct his story using them in an intrinsic and meaningful way. But learning that it was just a corporate idea to put two properties together really sucked the air out of any desire to see it.
2) I'm unclear on the timeline this covers. if it ends before the 90s collapse of his empire, it's complete hagiography of his business "acumen". By the late 90s he was a complete joke in the Northeast, and it was only the TV show that created his popular public persona of "success"
Ha. I would not be concerned about this being hagiography. His empire doesn't collapse, exactly, but there are plenty of indicators that he's expanding quickly and recklessly with credit he doesn't have, particularly in Atlantic City.
I know it's just a still from the film but it looks like Jeremy Strong is glaring at George Santos, who has snuck on set and stolen that wig, claiming "he" is Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump. And meanwhile Sebastian Stan is just comically locked in his trailer annoyed that he got A Different Man'd TWICE in one year.
If nothing else, PIECE BY PIECE has given me the idea to remake ELECTROMA in Lego form.
On the podcast The Town, they mentioned that after Lego Ninjago and the Lego Movie sequel didn't do well, Warner Bros let the rights to Lego lapse. Universal quickly pounced. Only they then found out they couldn't do anything with any characters established under Warner Bros, and they didn't really have any ideas of their own.
So they've just been sitting on the rights with nothing to do, and when Pharrell and Neville were working on coming up with a non-traditional approach to the biopic, Universal pitched the Lego idea so that they would have something to do with their property.
With the first trailer, I initially assumed maybe Pharrell had a deep personal connection to Legos and had really wanted to construct his story using them in an intrinsic and meaningful way. But learning that it was just a corporate idea to put two properties together really sucked the air out of any desire to see it.
That's disappointing, I was thinking of seeing this mostly because I thought they were doing something with the LEGO idea.
THE APPRENTICE:
1) this 100% should have been a comedy
2) I'm unclear on the timeline this covers. if it ends before the 90s collapse of his empire, it's complete hagiography of his business "acumen". By the late 90s he was a complete joke in the Northeast, and it was only the TV show that created his popular public persona of "success"
Ha. I would not be concerned about this being hagiography. His empire doesn't collapse, exactly, but there are plenty of indicators that he's expanding quickly and recklessly with credit he doesn't have, particularly in Atlantic City.
lol. sorry! gets me a bit heated
Alas they already did the Trump comedy back in 2016 with The Art of the Deal (not amazing but the ground has been covered).
I know it's just a still from the film but it looks like Jeremy Strong is glaring at George Santos, who has snuck on set and stolen that wig, claiming "he" is Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump. And meanwhile Sebastian Stan is just comically locked in his trailer annoyed that he got A Different Man'd TWICE in one year.
Until about 5 years ago, I thought Roy Cohn was a fictional character from a play / film that I had heard of but never watched, "Angels in America".
Deny. Delay. Attack. Change the subject. Yeah, the whole blueprint is right there.