2019-10-31 02:42:08
It would be foolish to attempt to compare the current beef raging between Netflix and Disney to the latter company’s second-hand series of Star Wars movies; after all, it’s hard to cast anybody as a plucky underdog resistance when they’re spending billions a year on content acquisition and marketing, as the online streamer so determinedly is. And yet, it’s not hard to see the way this rapidly-heating Cold War between the two entertainment giants—one young and expansionist, the other older and far more entrenched—has began to divide loyalties and, occasionally, blow up something pretty fucking big. Like, say, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ planned trilogy of Star Wars movies, which appear to have become a casualty of—among other factors—the current tug-of-war the two companies are waging over the hearts and minds of some of Hollywood’s most prominent creators.
