“What a piece of work is a man, How noble in
Reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving
how express and admirable, In action how like an Angel!
in apprehension how like a god!”
(Source: space-bees)
This is both deeply depressing and totally unsurprising.
One day, somewhere, somebody is going to find a way through the morass the Queen and Country media rights have become and there will be a movie or a TV show or something, but holding one’s breath at this point is I think a dangerous, dangerous prospect. You might well pass out.
It’s one of those instances where… I can’t even say the contract was bad. What happened was [Fox] bought it, And, you know, they exercised their option and they bought it and now they’re sitting on it. And every now and then, every couple of years I get a call, you know, “Oh, we’re working on it again” or “We have this idea”, “We’re gonna do that”, and then something happens that scares them away because… they’re paralysed by the fact that it’s a female lead.
That’s what it comes down to. They’re paralysed by the fact that the lead of Queen and Country is a woman. And I’ve literally had conversations with executives where they’ve just said, “Well, is there any way we can get a man up there with her?” And it’s like, well, sure, but that’s not Queen and Country. Feel free to write that yourselves.
It’s absurd. I think it’s genuinely absurd… this conceit that Hollywood labours under. You know, they’ve got studies to back it up, that their market is men, 18 to 34, and they won’t go to see women in an action wall. Which is utter bullshit! I mean, if you can think of any demographic that’s more likely to go see women in an action wall, it’s gonna be a guy who’s eighteen! You know, what’s the thing that eighteen year old is constantly thinking about? Girls!
It’s absurd, and the more you look into it the more the fallacy falls apart. It is a fallacious argument. The same studies that these people swear by, that our demographic, men 18 to 34, drive purchasing… alright, those same studies say that it’s women, something like women 20 to 40 who control the income outlay. They control the pocket book. So why aren’t you marketing to them?
It doesn’t make any sense. It is a fundamentally misogynistic market, and people wonder why we see such negative representations of women and the same, consistent objectification of women in media. And the only… you sweep everything away and the only argument that remains is that it’s a misogynistic industry.
Greg Rucka on Panel Discussions.
The Princess Bride reunion from Entertainment Weekly, October 2011.
The little framed photo of André the Giant, surrounded by flowers, never fails to bring a lump to my throat.
(Source: abcnews.go.com)
Muppet Avengers, part 1 of 13(?) Probably 13.
Making Gonzo Tony Stark was the easiest decision. Gonzo’s slightly self-centered (he calls himself “the Great”), he’s a notorious womanizer (or at least chickenizer) who manages to balance that with a steady girlfriend, and he’s certainly extremely liable to dress in a stupid outfit, set himself on fire, and launch himself out of tall buildings.
And with that obviously comes Camilla as Pepper Potts.
Up next…I still believe in groovy heroes.
