Major changes are afoot for anyone interested in comics, television, films, and gaming. But what exactly those changes are going to be is anyone's guess?

Some of Paramount's moves have been all over the place lately, so it feels hard to guess what their approach will be to gaming and DC. Hoping for DC's sake they largely just let them be.

I am still stuck on the damage this could do to those in the entertainment industry and haven’t even begun to think like a fan.

There is so much they could do for DC if they put the right people in charge, but the industry's history and the reality of the current situation suggest it is unlikely they will tap into such a deep resource.

I honestly don’t know enough about the business side to have a strong take yet, but as a fan I just hope it doesn’t mean less variety or fewer risks getting taken.

17 hours ago, FantasticJerome said:

I honestly don’t know enough about the business side to have a strong take yet, but as a fan I just hope it doesn’t mean less variety or fewer risks getting taken.

Yeah. My biggest concern about the merger (other than all the people who will be laid off because of this) is what it might mean re: the kinds of films that are green lit. Are we still gonna get something like Sinners or One Battle from Warner Bros. under Paramount leadership? Will Gunn be able to continue to do what he wants to do with DC?

We saw with Hunt for Ben Solo that even when a subsidiary is excited about a movie, it doesn't mean the parent company will sign off. We'll see.

To counter the point I just made, however, Paramount did just sign new deals with James Mangold and Dan Trachtenberg. Mangold's next movie is an original crime drama with Chalamet. So maybe that's a sign Paramount isn't creatively bankrupt.