This is so unrealistic. A movie executive paying someone to read the book instead of having an unpaid intern do it or using an AI chatbot to summarize it?
tbh, the guy Chuck passed it off on to probably passed it on to someone else, who passed it onto someone else, until finally someone cracked and just had an AI create a summary.
I liked this skit adaptation but I was disappointed by the lack of a kiss scene, I mean Chuck and Lionel were in such close proximity throughout the entire film, surely its natural for them to feel romantic tension?
If they have someone below them they can pin the blame on (Chuck, but he did a bad job too) and someone they know who won’t let them get fired, they’ll be fine.
"Imagine letting an author have creative control over their work. That would be _far_ too risky for me, an executive with an income the size of the GDP of a small nation to justify."
@@PlatinumAltariaI think they just say that last part when they actually mean 'we can save so much money slapping recognisable names from the ip into preprepared scripts we've got lying around'
"You guys HAVE to remember, that movies are going to have to change some things from the books. They are different mediums, they don't work the same." The changes:
The same producer after seeing the trailers being hated by everyone and the test audiences hating it: "Wow they don't like it. I really dont understand why. Anyway, time to slash the budget to limit our losses. VFX isnt done but who cares."
Making $7 at the box office is actually quite impressive! That is like half a movie ticket, did the one person going to see it only get a partial refund?
1:40 ah, the "two individuals of opposing sexes can never be friends, for one of the two is bound to fall for the other" thing... man, people thinking like this sure annoys me. Ok i cant even finish this one, the two hollywood dudes pissed me off. Meaning, (Mr. Generic Entertainment) you made some pretty good acting.
Or the "If two best friends of the same sex have previously only had poor (or no) romantic relationships, it's cause they're actually gay but don't realize it."
@@nocx4592 how about writer wants to have a heterosexual male and female platonic friendship but thinks everyone’s gonna wonder why they’re not in love so he has them get together briefly and break up, but then everyone thinks they’re gonna get back together in the end so he keeps doing the same thing over and over until he gives up and has them get together.
the CEO making the biggest blunder possible and then not facing any consequences & just switching to another company is a classic move. they probably also got a loafty 50 million$ severance package too
What if I told you that a partial reason for why movies are so bad these days might have something to do with the tax code. You see most major studios make the bulk of their money from legacy products, merchandise, theme parks and the like. But since they don't want to pay taxes on their regular profits they release a guaranteed bomb that will be seen as an operating loss. Thus allowing them to lower their tax burden. The staff continue to get paid and are used in future projects. But voila they saved money on their taxes and often enough get tax credits for filming in certain locations. This can be amplified to an even more horrendous extent with mega companies like Amazon that can claim to have spent billions of dollars on something that seemingly has a shoestring budget. With most of the money being spent on Amazon prime marketing and executive pay while filling the boondoggle as an operating loss.
@@LynetteTheMadScientist With the exception that this is perfectly legal in comparison. Better yet many of the tax schemes were created thanks to corporate lobbying. As there is no better investment than bribing the very people that are supposed to be monitoring your business. And tell them to look the other way.
Mostly true, except that laying people off in continuous waves and using outsourced overseas contractors to finish movies off before your staff qualify for benefits or severance can help them further increase profits! It's so fun being in the industry...
Hey little tip with greenscreen. You can add the greenscreen effect multiple times in whatever editing software you use. It will look better than if you just do one "agressive" effect, and you can layer as many of them as seem reasonable and it should work just fine.
This skit is really good but also not entirely accurate. The reality is hollywood buys a lot of film rights on the cheap from literal hundreds of authors. Even books that only sold a few thousand copies. They do this and sit on MOST of them, doing nothing. Authors are on average, very poor. The chance of an author even making it to middle class on book sales alone is actually low. So most will take the free money film rights give them, often long before anything happens. We have outliers, of course. Jk rowling is....just an outlier in general. She had the luck of being a phenomenon in books alone..something that happens...mostly never. Brando sando sold a lot of his rights long ago. He bought them back, but only after becoming very sucessful. Hes also an outlier. Grrm had a long career outside of books and so when he returned he was intentionally stingy with rights to asoiaf because he was financially better off after his time in hollywood. Again, an outlier. Please also remember asoiaf didnt really pick up in sales until a feast for crows. 99% of the time, the author isnt even in the room unless theyre specifically invited. Even then, that means practically nothing.
yeah, I made this video knowing this was not the case for most authors. I assume the scenario pictured here is one of those unusual cases where a book is so wildly successful on its own that studios are rushing to make a movie out of it as fast as possible before all the buzz dies down, which does happen occasionally.
And even if you do get successful, it might not even be in your lifetime. H.P. Lovecraft died broke, alone, and insane only to suddenly get a cult (haha) following 60 years later....
I mean, yeah, if they payed me a billion dollars I'd probably just let them make their trainwreck of a movie and move on, probably to write another book.
The scar thing really hurts. It was predicted that Mortal Engines would get Pennyroyal'd, and BOY did they Pennyroyal that film. Gods above it was a violent disappointment.
Makes me think of Rings of Power: People who've read the books: You do realize Galadriel is married with an adult daughter by now, right? That's kind of important because she marries Elrond and they have Arwen, who then goes on to marry Aragorn, plus in the movie adaptation, she shows up to-- Directors and Writers: Ugh, but monogamous relationships and nuclear families are so BORING. It's going to be much more exciting when Galadriel smooches Elrond-- People who've read the books: --That's her son-in-law. Directors and Writers: --Plus during the final battle, she becomes too distracted by that Saurussy to fight back properly. THINK OF THE SEXUAL TENSION.
@@Hawkatana wow, really?! I was more focused on the Artemis' birthmark looking more like a splotch of paint rather than a disfiguring birthmark but If the movie is an improvement then I don't even want to imagine the book.
@@blueface4007 It's the only piece of media I'd ever give a 0/10. I have never experienced a worse book, movie, video game, TV show, anime, comic, manga, TTRPG, ride or anything else in my life.
"they are of the opposite gender and are in close proximity for the whole story, there's no way they don't fall in love" tell it to those who made Masha and the bear
3:15 Actually, many TV and Movie franchises make most of their money from merchandise. Pokémon and various Disney franchises make absurd amounts of money from their toys
You forgot the part where the egotistical showrunner with terrible prose thinks that they can do better dialogue and plotting then the original writer.
I can only imagine what would happen if they tried to adapt the Left Hand of God, that would be bad. "Wait you're telling that in this book a 15y boy eats rats and gets beaten to almost death on a daily basis? And that in a very good day he'll be seen smoking a straw cigarette?" "Yeah" "And he does what to his 17y girlfriend?"
This makes me think of the last apprentice. The movie they made was a freaking awful, like Percy Jackson times a million. I mean at least you could tell that movie was meant to be Percy Jackson. First of all, this movie was just garbage on its own. It was a crappy summer fantasy movie with a generic Chosen One plotline which is totally opposed to the book which didn't feel like that. And I didn't even realize it was based on those books until over halfway through the movie, and I only started to realize because they were using some of the same terminology. I ended up having to Google it. Man I freaking hate Hollywood sometimes.
Did it NET $7, or did it GROSS $7?? Because if it net $7, that means the gross profit itself would have been over $1B, since they paid the at least that much to the author for the rights. That means the net profit for part 2 would be absolutely wild!
I was very surprised when i found out that girl with fire powers i forbet her name in hellboy is like hes younger sister to him in the comics and atlest one of the anaimter movies i pnly watched one and he called her sis in that movie people think thats canon to the live action ones ckewrky havent seen it
1:57 I forgot I was watching a skit because the accuracy of this jab was pissing off😂. Why are we changing ages and races at our convenience to please more casual readers/watchers? I hate it in the modern fantasy adaptation/ not really an adaptation thing they have going on.
If it’s an old guy in a Hollywood movie these days, he has to be miserable and with his life falling apart around him until the plucky young heroine shows him to see the value in life again.
this is brandon sanderson. Man is easily the biggest fantasy author to not have an adaptation but its only cause he keeps shooting down shitty scripts.
Never trust wealthy Hollywon't heretics to decide what exemplary storytelling is. They've never studied it, so how would they be able to identify it? It'd be like asking a six year-old to analyze Rocky Marciano's legendary defense techniques; ya just don't do it. Well... not if you're intelligent, lol. 😂 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength, resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)
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This is so unrealistic. A movie executive paying someone to read the book instead of having an unpaid intern do it or using an AI chatbot to summarize it?
tbh, the guy Chuck passed it off on to probably passed it on to someone else, who passed it onto someone else, until finally someone cracked and just had an AI create a summary.
This 2 comment thread is already too long so I had AI summarize it into 8 easy paragraphs; great convo folks
@@bross92😂
Use an AI chatbot? That's way too much effort.
I liked this skit adaptation but I was disappointed by the lack of a kiss scene, I mean Chuck and Lionel were in such close proximity throughout the entire film, surely its natural for them to feel romantic tension?
You're so right, I should have thought of what the fans wanted.
#releasethekissycut
I didn't watch the video but how can main protagonist not kiss the love interest?
They're not young and hot though, chuck is hideous
Unresolved sexual tension is a good sequel hook.
The most realistic part about this video was the executive became CEO after the movie flopped
executives are born with the innate power to fail upwards.
If they have someone below them they can pin the blame on (Chuck, but he did a bad job too) and someone they know who won’t let them get fired, they’ll be fine.
CEO of Montgomery Alabama, which doesn’t mind the failure from hollywood lol
"Imagine letting an author have creative control over their work. That would be _far_ too risky for me, an executive with an income the size of the GDP of a small nation to justify."
These people will buy the rights to something while simultaneously believing it's a terrible story and needs to be fixed.
@@PlatinumAltariaI think they just say that last part when they actually mean 'we can save so much money slapping recognisable names from the ip into preprepared scripts we've got lying around'
"You guys HAVE to remember, that movies are going to have to change some things from the books. They are different mediums, they don't work the same."
The changes:
The same producer after seeing the trailers being hated by everyone and the test audiences hating it:
"Wow they don't like it. I really dont understand why. Anyway, time to slash the budget to limit our losses. VFX isnt done but who cares."
As someone writing a book where a middle-aged man and a teenage girl team up, this was too relatable.
I don't want to be that guy, but there's way too many books/movies with this kind of setup. Though props to you for not making it weird
Don't listen to that guy, I think it's a good idea, could be like a master apprentice sort of thing, also it worked in the last of us 1/series.
That’s kinda creepy even if it is platonic
Bots say its creepy for something they don't even know anything about. Expected.
@@RafaelR-yy6qj you think I’m a bot because I think it’s creepy that an adult man is friends with a little girl who isn’t his own
Making $7 at the box office is actually quite impressive! That is like half a movie ticket, did the one person going to see it only get a partial refund?
It was probably a student who got discount
They saw it in the Midwest during Matinee hours
it was a cheap ass theater
1:40 ah, the "two individuals of opposing sexes can never be friends, for one of the two is bound to fall for the other" thing... man, people thinking like this sure annoys me.
Ok i cant even finish this one, the two hollywood dudes pissed me off. Meaning, (Mr. Generic Entertainment) you made some pretty good acting.
Or the "If two best friends of the same sex have previously only had poor (or no) romantic relationships, it's cause they're actually gay but don't realize it."
@@nocx4592 omg so true too, why is it so hard to see two people and not think "when are you two KISSING!!"
There's more to relationships than this...
This is part of the reason Elementary was such a great show. The 2 leads were a man and a woman, but they stayed just friends for the whole show
@@nocx4592 how about writer wants to have a heterosexual male and female platonic friendship but thinks everyone’s gonna wonder why they’re not in love so he has them get together briefly and break up, but then everyone thinks they’re gonna get back together in the end so he keeps doing the same thing over and over until he gives up and has them get together.
@@mattphillips3537 That's a more specific and more frustrating case of the original comment. Fortunately, I've managed to mostly avoid those stories.
Studio Execs when they are tasked with creating a Original and Creative new Film (their Nepo Fathers didn’t prepare them for this)
they don't really make anything. they just give money (not theirs) to people that do and they're still bad at it.
Wow, this is your crunchiest greenscreen yet lol.
I love how the billion dollars isn’t even the punchline. You just keep going. Excellent
the CEO making the biggest blunder possible and then not facing any consequences & just switching to another company is a classic move. they probably also got a loafty 50 million$ severance package too
unrealistic, they wouldn't tell the writer that they were changing the plot, they'd only do it after the rights were sold
Hollywood: "Books aren't marketable anymore, so we shouldn't put that much effort into adapting them."
The Wheel of Time: *"Am I joke to you?!!"*
Wheel of Time: "Oh right.... they butchered me too."
This is shown painfully well in the Rings of Power....
not quite (they didnt buy the rights to silmarillion) XD
@@lemone12 I mean, the Akallabêth isn't exactly a detailed source anyway.
What if I told you that a partial reason for why movies are so bad these days might have something to do with the tax code. You see most major studios make the bulk of their money from legacy products, merchandise, theme parks and the like. But since they don't want to pay taxes on their regular profits they release a guaranteed bomb that will be seen as an operating loss. Thus allowing them to lower their tax burden. The staff continue to get paid and are used in future projects. But voila they saved money on their taxes and often enough get tax credits for filming in certain locations. This can be amplified to an even more horrendous extent with mega companies like Amazon that can claim to have spent billions of dollars on something that seemingly has a shoestring budget. With most of the money being spent on Amazon prime marketing and executive pay while filling the boondoggle as an operating loss.
interesting explanation...
They watched The Producers and said “write that down! Write that down!”
@@LynetteTheMadScientist With the exception that this is perfectly legal in comparison. Better yet many of the tax schemes were created thanks to corporate lobbying. As there is no better investment than bribing the very people that are supposed to be monitoring your business. And tell them to look the other way.
Mostly true, except that laying people off in continuous waves and using outsourced overseas contractors to finish movies off before your staff qualify for benefits or severance can help them further increase profits!
It's so fun being in the industry...
Hey little tip with greenscreen. You can add the greenscreen effect multiple times in whatever editing software you use. It will look better than if you just do one "agressive" effect, and you can layer as many of them as seem reasonable and it should work just fine.
This skit is really good but also not entirely accurate.
The reality is hollywood buys a lot of film rights on the cheap from literal hundreds of authors. Even books that only sold a few thousand copies. They do this and sit on MOST of them, doing nothing.
Authors are on average, very poor. The chance of an author even making it to middle class on book sales alone is actually low. So most will take the free money film rights give them, often long before anything happens.
We have outliers, of course. Jk rowling is....just an outlier in general. She had the luck of being a phenomenon in books alone..something that happens...mostly never.
Brando sando sold a lot of his rights long ago. He bought them back, but only after becoming very sucessful. Hes also an outlier.
Grrm had a long career outside of books and so when he returned he was intentionally stingy with rights to asoiaf because he was financially better off after his time in hollywood. Again, an outlier. Please also remember asoiaf didnt really pick up in sales until a feast for crows.
99% of the time, the author isnt even in the room unless theyre specifically invited. Even then, that means practically nothing.
yeah, I made this video knowing this was not the case for most authors. I assume the scenario pictured here is one of those unusual cases where a book is so wildly successful on its own that studios are rushing to make a movie out of it as fast as possible before all the buzz dies down, which does happen occasionally.
damn that even worse
@@genericallyentertainingkinda like how Netflix adapted Uglies recently despite being like 10 years too late for that market?
And even if you do get successful, it might not even be in your lifetime.
H.P. Lovecraft died broke, alone, and insane only to suddenly get a cult (haha) following 60 years later....
I love the ongoing development of Zortep IV; I therefore must boycott the adaptation of The Land of the Whirlpool.
How are you able to make the last couple seconds of your videos more entertaining than the already entertaining body of the video. Great work man.
Was expecting an end credit there for Chalamet too LMAO
I mean, yeah, if they payed me a billion dollars I'd probably just let them make their trainwreck of a movie and move on, probably to write another book.
The scar thing really hurts.
It was predicted that Mortal Engines would get Pennyroyal'd, and BOY did they Pennyroyal that film. Gods above it was a violent disappointment.
Makes me think of Rings of Power:
People who've read the books: You do realize Galadriel is married with an adult daughter by now, right? That's kind of important because she marries Elrond and they have Arwen, who then goes on to marry Aragorn, plus in the movie adaptation, she shows up to--
Directors and Writers: Ugh, but monogamous relationships and nuclear families are so BORING. It's going to be much more exciting when Galadriel smooches Elrond--
People who've read the books: --That's her son-in-law.
Directors and Writers: --Plus during the final battle, she becomes too distracted by that Saurussy to fight back properly. THINK OF THE SEXUAL TENSION.
Lmao, Ready Player One be like!
Nah, the movie was actually an improvement on the original book. And I say this knowing the movie is like a 3/10.
@@Hawkatana wow, really?! I was more focused on the Artemis' birthmark looking more like a splotch of paint rather than a disfiguring birthmark but If the movie is an improvement then I don't even want to imagine the book.
@@blueface4007 It's the only piece of media I'd ever give a 0/10. I have never experienced a worse book, movie, video game, TV show, anime, comic, manga, TTRPG, ride or anything else in my life.
I’m happy for Wilbur. Not only did he get 1Bil, we share the same last name! Good for him
3:54 im honestly surprised it didnt go on to make a trillion dollars
2:30: Mortal Engines...
honestly!
"they are of the opposite gender and are in close proximity for the whole story, there's no way they don't fall in love"
tell it to those who made Masha and the bear
That's fun that he became the CEO of a city. A friend of mine was once the Dean of Pluto. He may still be, I'm not sure.
But how could two people of opposite genders not fall in love in a movie.
Extremely Specific Entertainment
was that scar bit a Mortal Engines callout?
And Ready Player One, and a hundred other movies.
Bro is the book bit champion
3:15 Actually, many TV and Movie franchises make most of their money from merchandise. Pokémon and various Disney franchises make absurd amounts of money from their toys
George rr martin with hotd
I love this completely original sketch and critique of Hollywood.
George Lucas is feeling attacked, but then remembers his 4 billion dollars and feels happy.
This is why we still haven’t gotten a Malazan adaptation. 😭
The funniest part is that GotM started off as a movie script that was seen as "too risky" because it actually tried to be different
Well if he makes enough videos about Zhortep IV, we could feed all those hints we get to Chat GPT and make him actually write the book 🙂
"It's not our job to make it better. We don't need to make it better, we just need to copy and paste!" -Calebcity
yeah, i think a billion dollars is worth my creative integrity
Blood Meridian Movie ahh skit
You forgot the part where the egotistical showrunner with terrible prose thinks that they can do better dialogue and plotting then the original writer.
“30 minutes later we were engaged” 😂
I can only imagine what would happen if they tried to adapt the Left Hand of God, that would be bad.
"Wait you're telling that in this book a 15y boy eats rats and gets beaten to almost death on a daily basis? And that in a very good day he'll be seen smoking a straw cigarette?"
"Yeah"
"And he does what to his 17y girlfriend?"
now I have to look up this book because I really want to understand the joke
3:06 at that point either you take it, or you leave, arguing about whether it's worth it on their end is pointless
This makes me think of the last apprentice. The movie they made was a freaking awful, like Percy Jackson times a million. I mean at least you could tell that movie was meant to be Percy Jackson.
First of all, this movie was just garbage on its own. It was a crappy summer fantasy movie with a generic Chosen One plotline which is totally opposed to the book which didn't feel like that. And I didn't even realize it was based on those books until over halfway through the movie, and I only started to realize because they were using some of the same terminology. I ended up having to Google it.
Man I freaking hate Hollywood sometimes.
Emily Dickinson's poetry is really nice though, isn't it.
This is the greatest thing I have seen today!
Imagine he collabs with Man Carrying Thing
This is exactly why we don't have any of Sanderson's books adapted yet. He doesn't want anyone to make changes he doesn't want to make.
This is why Brandon Sanderson keeps having to delay the Cosmere adaptations.
Same for Earthsea but with race
So these are the guys that wrote the Wheel of Time adaptation
Sending this to my aroace friend
I love how they're starting with the fourth book in the series.
Nice, now make one when the book *is* marketable
i love this
True and real
This is painfully accurate to a point I think I can actually name which movies this was based on. 1:51 is Lolita and 2:22 is Mortal Engines.
Two out of the three of them came out alright in the end, so I'd say that counts as a success!
Did it NET $7, or did it GROSS $7?? Because if it net $7, that means the gross profit itself would have been over $1B, since they paid the at least that much to the author for the rights. That means the net profit for part 2 would be absolutely wild!
I was very surprised when i found out that girl with fire powers i forbet her name in hellboy is like hes younger sister to him in the comics and atlest one of the anaimter movies i pnly watched one and he called her sis in that movie people think thats canon to the live action ones ckewrky havent seen it
How could they be in a movie if they're not young and hot???!
You are in cahoots with Man Carrying Thing over your upload schedule aren't you?
I would sell my kids for a billion dollars.
why
you can always buy new ones for less
@@animalobsessed1 True!
Don't do that. Make it a part time thing to rent them out. That way it's a more stable income
Was that scare thing a jab at the mortal engines movie! A mortal engines reference lets goooooo!!
"I don't control the market."
Do you at least have people who understand the market so we can make a product people will want to pay for?
That ending was perfect
You are brilliant!❤😂
Once I make a visual novel, I would keep Hollywood FAR AWAY from anything I write.
1:57 I forgot I was watching a skit because the accuracy of this jab was pissing off😂. Why are we changing ages and races at our convenience to please more casual readers/watchers? I hate it in the modern fantasy adaptation/ not really an adaptation thing they have going on.
If it’s an old guy in a Hollywood movie these days, he has to be miserable and with his life falling apart around him until the plucky young heroine shows him to see the value in life again.
- there's no romantic tension between them
- qué? No te entiendo, qué estás diciendo?
I love a happy ending
Zhortep IV: part One (of Five) is the best movie title i've ever seen
Adaptation 🤔 has AD and APP in the first half of the word. Which is why 3rd Acts are so bad. 😊 … Ta 👋
This is about Rings of Power
Haven't watched the video yet. I just wanted to say i thought you were Dax Flame in the thumbnail
I mean, yeah, I'd sell the rights to my book for a billion dollars. That's not a promise of revenue, that's a _price tag._
So...
Percy Jackson
Complimentary engagement
POV Artemis Fowl adaptation
They could gut my book to hell and back for a billion dollars.
yeah sadly, movie adaptations are rarely for the fans.
Is this book real?
this is brandon sanderson. Man is easily the biggest fantasy author to not have an adaptation but its only cause he keeps shooting down shitty scripts.
If they want creative control, they get paid less for it. Bing bang boom.
we got engaged 30 minutes later 😳
You look very handsome in a suit
Man carrying wrong channel to leave this comment on.
You're legit handsome tho wtf
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You’re extremely attractive, I think you could play the lead at any age
Never trust wealthy Hollywon't heretics to decide what exemplary storytelling is. They've never studied it, so how would they be able to identify it? It'd be like asking a six year-old to analyze Rocky Marciano's legendary defense techniques; ya just don't do it. Well... not if you're intelligent, lol. 😂
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Great skit, terrible green screen
Where can I find that book / movie / show where there no romantics slop in it? Oh, yeah, it was called The X-Files. AND WE KNOW HOW THAT WENT.
> show where there no romantics slop in it? Oh, yeah, it was called The X-Files.
We've watched different X-Files, I guess.
X-Files has romantic tension from like the first episode
Elementary actively mocks the concept of the main characters getting together from the pilot episode.
The first Blade movie.
first lets goooo
Naaah