#rscott

He was partly inspired to co-write it because of the movie Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) starring Robert Duvall, Matt Damon, Jason Patric & one Cherokee actor Wes Studi. He said you wouldn't(shouldn't) make Malcolm X starring Matt Damon, Robert Duvall, Jason Patric...& Denzel. He said though it's what's expected. He also said that's why so many stories about history in America that aren't told need to be because if they're not, they're in danger of being lost which is so true.

“It seems the elder statesmen of film are feeling pretty bummed about the medium. It was only last month when the great Martin Scorsese grimly declared that “cinema is gone,” and now another veteran helmer is also sounding the alarm that the art form has seen better days.

“Cinema mainly is pretty bad” director Ridley Scott told Digital Spy, adding that he was “concerned” for the future of film.”

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“...However, Scott will never stoop to director a Marvel or DC movie.

“Superhero movies are not my kind of thing – that’s why I’ve never really done one,” he said. “[I’ve been asked] several times, but I can’t believe in the thin, gossamer tight-rope of the non-reality of the situation of the superhero.

”Instead, he says that something like “Blade Runner” is like a comic strip, and that “you could almost put Batman or Superman in that world, that atmosphere, except I’d have a f**king good story, as opposed to no story!””

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Different characters. Ridley Scott got shit because of his movie Exodus which had white men cast in MOC roles. But he again laid out the truth that audiences aren't going out & seeing movies with diverse cast so studios aren't going to risk casting actual POC in roles. It's not just the studios fault, it's the audience. The reason Depp & ScarJo are the 2 highest paid actors is because of the audience. People can yell all they want but their the reason studios won't take risks.

I obviously think Ridley had a point but it’s also about how you communicate said point that affects how it’s perceived. He didn’t word himself correctly keeping in mind the ultra PC society we live in now and people immediately pounced on him when all he did was lay down the facts. After a certain amount of zeroes in a budget the studio basically expects to get their money back and the safest way they can try to do that is by casting “bankable” talent. The higher the budget the less the risks taken and that absolutely includes casting. It’s partially why I’m so vehemently opposed to big budget movies. It is what it is though. You know this isn’t a topic we can touch upon on tumblr without being called a racist, so I’m just going to leave that there.  

Everything else you said is spot on. If you make the same variation of a superhero movie twenty times and people still show up, then why try something new? Entertainment is a business. Most of the people who run studios and networks aren’t creatives, they’re business minded zombies who are in it to make money for their shareholders. Until audiences prove to them that their stocks will still pay for their three vacation homes and their Tesla then they will keep doing the same old thing that keeps making them easy money over and over again.