I'm linking the article but the actual dunk is on redditors who see this and cheer, completely ignoring that this is an extension of how much power/influence the American military has over hollywood film. Want to film anything that might have the military in it? You gotta play ball babyyyy! Ever notice how weirdly patriotic and jingoistic almost every film that features a tank is? They played ball babbyyyy!!!
there was a good comment on reddit at least though https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/14o3xt8/defense_department_declares_it_wont_work_with/jqbfo50/
How much of this is going to be an issue going on? For starters, it's looking more and more like the (live-action) superhero movie trend is finally on its last legs, and while Top Gun did well I don't think that military action movies are going to have any sort of come-back. On the other hand, idk the current appetite of Chinese movie-goers for American films as Cold War II continues to drag on. In addition, the Chinese film industry doesn't seem to have taken the same hit from Covid as the American film industry did (due to the mostly competent response), so I don't know if there's a lot of room for a glut of US imports.
If I had to randomly pick a new trend to replace superhero movies, I'd probably guess it going to be video game adaptations with the success of the Mario Bros. movie. Video game movies have the potential for pre-built international cultural appeal, you have massive IP back catalogs that have yet to be tapped, and video game companies already have pre-developed merchandising networks to work with for those IPs. While some of those films would want DoD toys/money, a lot would probably prefer working with Chinese film studios or video game publishers.
Yeah video game movies might be the next big thing. The Pentagon will absolutely help fund a shitload of Call of Duty films at the very least - they already send advisors to consult for the games. Any Hollywood executive would greenlight that series immediately just based on all of the free US govt funding it would get.
I know everyone knows this, but it’s pretty insane how CoD barely advertise their story now lol. I went on the steam page and every screenshot and video is just colorful guns and punk rock operators lol. And maybe at the end it’s a screenshot of the story.
I can see a Call of Duty movie franchise, but those movies probably wouldn't sell well in China in the first place. I just don't know how many film-makers are actually going to have to choose between the Chinese market and DoD slush.
One Hollywood two systems.
I guess it will affect Fast and Furious franchise, I remembred John Cena speaking in fluent mandarin apologizing about Taiwan.
Even then that doesnt use pentangon budget.
Just looking at a list of the most likely candidates to get film adaptations from the videogame world...I can only find a handful that would really benefit from DOD support in the first place. Quite frankly it would be a red flag if some of them (Metal Gear) got it in the first place.
Although then again we shouldn't forget the fucking Monster Hunter debacle, lol. I can't wait for the Legend of Zelda film where Link calls in air support from the united state navy.