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[Sirwalterraleigh]

…is that a joke?

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

If you're searching for new adventure, "This is the way"!

 

[Phroobar]

 

[DisneyWarrior27]

Looks fun.

Will probably be a decent hit with $500M WW.

I’m not budging from that, since unlike Solo, they got the call to market this early and while the first teaser trailer might not be as good as the convention-exclusive trailers, there will still be time for better trailers, active marketing, and more

 

[DisneyWarrior27]

If you're searching for new adventure, "This is the way"!

This is the way.

 

[Wendy Pleakley]

Is this allowed?

Even Spaceballs 2's cast reveal is a Star Wars spoof

Dual Pullmans means we're getting a big Kylo Ren goof, right?

www.polygon.com

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Congrats to KK for green lighting the most bag of flaming dog in human history

Cost Of Star Wars Show ‘The Acolyte’ Surges To Quarter Of A Billion Dollars

Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars spinoff The Acolyte surged by 10.5% last year ahead of the release of the controversial show.

www.forbes.com

 

[Disney Irish]

Congrats to KK for green lighting the most bag of flaming dog in human history

Cost Of Star Wars Show ‘The Acolyte’ Surges To Quarter Of A Billion Dollars

Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars spinoff The Acolyte surged by 10.5% last year ahead of the release of the controversial show.

www.forbes.com

So a clickbait article, the TLDR of which is that Disney spent $187M after tax rebates on Acolyte, which is about $23M per episode. Which is only slightly higher than the average for a streaming show these days. And far cry cheaper than the total $645M spent on Andor, which comes out to $27M per episode.

 

[Phroobar]

Congrats to KK for green lighting the most bag of flaming dog in human history

Cost Of Star Wars Show ‘The Acolyte’ Surges To Quarter Of A Billion Dollars

Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars spinoff The Acolyte surged by 10.5% last year ahead of the release of the controversial show.

www.forbes.com

For a moment I thought she greenlight season 2. (Shivers)

 

[erasure fan1]

So a clickbait article, the TLDR of which is that Disney spent $187M after tax rebates on Acolyte, which is about $23M per episode. Which is only slightly higher than the average for a streaming show these days. And far cry cheaper than the total $645M spent on Andor, which comes out to $27M per episode.

Here's the issue. When all is said and done, the acolyte is an absolute turd of a show. Yes they received a tax credit. But the money was spent and it's a true embarrassment because of how bad it was. You can see where Andors money went. Not so much in the acolyte. So that show before factoring tax cuts cost a heck of a lot of money. That's the problem. This show should have been 75mil after the tax cuts based on the quality. Not 187mil.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Any suggestion that the acolyte was in ANY way a good idea is simply stupid.

Happy Friday

 

[Disney Irish]

Here's the issue. When all is said and done, the acolyte is an absolute turd of a show. Yes they received a tax credit. But the money was spent and it's a true embarrassment because of how bad it was. You can see where Andors money went. Not so much in the acolyte. So that show before factoring tax cuts cost a heck of a lot of money. That's the problem. This show should have been 75mil after the tax cuts based on the quality. Not 187mil.

So while I appreciate your perspective, my comment had nothing to do with the "quality" of the show, just the budget and specifically its relation to how its presented in that article.

Quality is subjective, and there were both many supporters of the show as well detractors, as was seen during the shows run just here on this site.

 

[Phroobar]

Any suggestion that the acolyte was in ANY way a good idea is simply stupid.

Happy Friday

Even the toys sucked.

 

[Agent H]

Any suggestion that the acolyte was in ANY way a good idea is simply stupid.

Happy Friday

One of the things that I find very weird about Disneys biggest detractors is the “anyone who disagrees with me is outright wrong” attitude.

 

[Phroobar]

One of the things that I find very weird about Disneys biggest detractors is the “anyone who disagrees with me is outright wrong” attitude.

That is an attribute of both supporters and detractors.

People need sides to root for. Why I don't understand is why we root for a company that doesn't care anything for their customers outside of their money.

 

[Agent H]

People need sides to root for. Why I don't understand is why we root for a company that doesn't care anything for their customers outside of their money most companies don’t care about their customers

I don’t root for companies. I root for good shows and the artists that make them so that whatever corporation the artist works for lets them make either more they previously made or more things like it.

 

[Phroobar]

I don’t root for companies. I root for good shows and the artists that make them so that whatever corporation the artist works for lets them make either more they previously made or more things like it.

So you say.

 

[erasure fan1]

So while I appreciate your perspective, my comment had nothing to do with the "quality" of the show, just the budget and specifically its relation to how its presented in that article.

Quality is subjective, and there were both many supporters of the show as well detractors, as was seen during the shows run just here on this site.

Oh I get it. It's like any article in the Internet age. They're almost all click bait-y. To be fair the article talked about the quality a lot and they did talk about the tax credit. The point I took from it was it cost too much and wasn't very good. And even counting the tax cuts they still spent that original amount so where'd that money go. So a side from the title making it seem like the final

Of course quality is subjective. I liked transformers revenge of the fallen. I also understand most think it's terrible. I would never claim it was a good film. So yea, I'm sure some liked acolyte. So if someone wants to say, yea it's an absolute trainwreck of a show, it's so bad but I like it. Ok, I can relate to that. And I know you like to defend it. But if you look at it from a technical standpoint. It's written horribly, acted poorly with mediocre cinematography. It's just a bad misstep plain and simple. And I know the, that's just your opinion, is coming. But when Disney outright cuts it, you know it was a disaster.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

One of the things that I find very weird about Disneys biggest detractors is the “anyone who disagrees with me is outright wrong” attitude.

In the abstract you are correct.

Unfortunately this actually happened. Unfortunately for Disney…its out there.

The smart move would have been to never release it

It just antagonized an already disgruntled, lucrative fanbase…activated defenders that do NOTHING but irritate other fans…and causes more brand erosion

Destroy the hard drive and fire everyone involved…that was the smart play

 

[MarvelCharacterNerd]

Congrats to KK for green lighting the most bag of flaming dog in human history

Cost Of Star Wars Show ‘The Acolyte’ Surges To Quarter Of A Billion Dollars

Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars spinoff The Acolyte surged by 10.5% last year ahead of the release of the controversial show.

www.forbes.com

I'm just going to leave this here...