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“Where did all the money go?”: Star Wars Fans Can’t Believe Disney Spent Twice the Money as Godzilla Minus One to Make Each Episode of The Acolyte (www.msn.com)

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[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago (4 children)

First of all… This is the most bloated, ChatGPT article ever.

Second. Godzilla Minus One just looks OKAY. Let’s not kid ourselves here. When half your story takes place in very simple, small sets, and another 40% can be shot in a water sound stage or on the open water with little set design needed, no shit it’s gonna save you a lot of money.

Do people think these Star Wars sets just exist already or something? They take huge teams to conceive of and dress them. And then you’ve got the volume stages where not only are you spending a fuckload to rent out for the day, but your CG artists have to generate those environments ahead of time.

Articles like these are fucking idiotic.

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Do people think these Star Wars sets just exist already or something?

Yeah i do. After the new movies, several tv shows, and the galaxys edge theme parks they have a decade plus of star wars specific production infrastructure to draw on. They're not starting from scratch on this show.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn't this show set on a completely different time period?

[–] BenPranklin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does that matter prop wise? I'd say I have above average knowledge of star wars lore and I have absolutely no idea how to visually tell the difference between say the old republic era and the most recent trilogy. The only thing I can think of that reliably identifies a time period in star wars in terms of visual design is storm trooper helmets.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are actually quite a few awesome Old/High Republic properties.

[–] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 3 points 3 months ago

You would think they aren’t starting from scratch, but each crappy shot of an underbaked Coruscant suggests otherwise.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Are you telling me they didn't film on Coruscant? ~/s~

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Usually the film the pilot on the real Coruscant, then they recreate the interior in a pavilion, and use the same exterior footage over and over again.

[–] young_broccoli@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago

Its still more expensive, per episode, than other SW shows and more expensive than Episode IV itself ($57M) adjusted for inflation.

I dont think this is a SW problem tho. TV and movies seem to be getting ridiculously expensive to make for some reason

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 months ago

Second. Godzilla Minus One just looks OKAY.

It looks great, and it was a great film, and I had a great time watching it.