First of all… This is the most bloated, ChatGPT article ever.
Second. Godzilla Minus One just looks OKAY. Let’s not kid ourselves here. When half your story takes place in very simple, small sets, and another 40% can be shot in a water sound stage or on the open water with little set design needed, no shit it’s gonna save you a lot of money.
Do people think these Star Wars sets just exist already or something? They take huge teams to conceive of and dress them. And then you’ve got the volume stages where not only are you spending a fuckload to rent out for the day, but your CG artists have to generate those environments ahead of time.
Articles like these are fucking idiotic.
Do people think these Star Wars sets just exist already or something?
Yeah i do. After the new movies, several tv shows, and the galaxys edge theme parks they have a decade plus of star wars specific production infrastructure to draw on. They’re not starting from scratch on this show.
Isn’t this show set on a completely different time period?
Does that matter prop wise? I’d say I have above average knowledge of star wars lore and I have absolutely no idea how to visually tell the difference between say the old republic era and the most recent trilogy. The only thing I can think of that reliably identifies a time period in star wars in terms of visual design is storm trooper helmets.
There are actually quite a few awesome Old/High Republic properties.
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You would think they aren’t starting from scratch, but each crappy shot of an underbaked Coruscant suggests otherwise.
Are you telling me they didn’t film on Coruscant? /s
Usually the film the pilot on the real Coruscant, then they recreate the interior in a pavilion, and use the same exterior footage over and over again.
Second. Godzilla Minus One just looks OKAY.
It looks great, and it was a great film, and I had a great time watching it.
Its still more expensive, per episode, than other SW shows and more expensive than Episode IV itself ($57M) adjusted for inflation.
I dont think this is a SW problem tho. TV and movies seem to be getting ridiculously expensive to make for some reason
The power of one, the power of two, the power of millions of dollars down the drain. shakes violently in a trance
I was worried as soon as the “GMO cost $15 million” mindvirus got started that it would be weaponized for bad faith arguments. To replicate Godzilla Minus One, you need a leader with an unhealthy approach to work/life to throw himself into hours of work. Another way to get that budget is to exploit the shit out of your workers
There is obviously a ton of waste in Western entertainment budgets, particularly from Disney. But online commenters are doing the work of Disney’s executives by holding up an outlier as an example of the new benchmark for budget success. You shouldn’t fixate on the profitability of the endeavor, but instead on the effectiveness of the investment.
Absurd amounts of cgi will do that.
Godzilla Minus One was a risk. Any Star Wars content is a cash cow they’re not worried about throwing money at.
Was it? Shin Godzilla was the most profitable Japanese movie ever.
And Minus One was significantly less profitable than Shin.
Executive cocaine and underage hooker binges don’t pay for themselves.
I read that headline and thought it meant:
(Cost per Episode) = 2 × (Cost of Godzilla Movie) - $1
