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Of course Robert is okay with creative dreg, as long as he aproves of the politics of said dreg, as long as it says the "right things" and you are not Adam McKay, you are good to go as far as Robert is concerned.
And no, it wasn't just a sudden burst of shared creativity that gave way to these "the princess will have to save herself" movies that we are getting (also, "The Princess" sucked), nah, people have been shopping this idea for a while , and you can see it more clearly on books and comics, where there is little cost to put it on the table, unlike movies.
Hell, comics have been doing this quite a bit since the early 2010's:
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The author have been trying to option his book to hollywood since forever, and he did get picked up by Sony... in 2017, so when this sort of stuff started to get some buzz, other script writers started to take notice that this could be a trend they could ride.
"The Princess" writers are both middle aged white man with little to no noticiable credits, Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton, and this is their first big production, and the reason their script got picked up by Fox at the time was because at the same time Sony was optioning stuff like "Princelss", and it is the same reason on why Netflix now wants to bank their Stranger Things star on their own "feminist roar" movie, a movie that was writen by a middle aged white man who wrote "Warth of Titans" in 2012, and nothing else since (also, he wrote the next fast and furious) .
So, Robert, you get it? This isn't about "lightbulbs" and "ideas", it is about mediocre white writers exploiting on-line trends to get jobs, with simplistic and dull "feminist revenge" shit that was already dull and boring since the 70's.
I'll say this though, it is funny that Princeless never got made into a movie. I mean, I know why it never got to the finish line, I've read the first volume and it is goddamned awfull, the writer, Jeremy Whitley has the prose of a third grader, and the story is engaging as a brick:
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(yes, they are lesbians for each other, no duh)
Nah, what I find funny is that unlike the other writers for the princess warrior movies that got made, Jeremy Whitley is a genuine feminist, and I mean that in the most comical caricature of a pudgy white slob who champions "feminism" in the most submissive "yes m'lady, please like me" fedora tipper possible. And he, of all people, is the guy who couldn't get his princess warrior movie done... the universe can be funny sometimes.
I never met Jeremy Whitley, I saw him in a comic convention back in 2014, but some of the stuff i've read about him online... well, lets just say the man had potential to be here.
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