The Indy 5 movie has done extremely poorly in the US box office. And there are lots of reasons for that. But the bottom line is, fans are tired of movies with poorly written stories and strong political / woke influences.
The fans don’t want to see former heroic male leads presented as old wasted shells of their former selves. Recasting of the male hero as a younger charismatic guy can be done to avoid such pitfalls… but Hollywood prefers to gender swap & race swap and do all sorts of arrogant things that fit their political agenda instead… then they fail and blame the fans. Probably a pure sign of their hubris and stupidity.
FYI, if you try to sell a poor product like an expired cake, and people don’t buy it, you can’t blame the people for just wanting to buy something else that tastes good.
So fans have started walking away from bad movies / agenda-filled entertainment, and the Hollywood studios have started suffering financially, in recent times.
Anyway, I did some research of Phoebe Waller bridge [aka Ms. Fleabag – it’s an odd nickname she got in her youth, which she still uses]. And Fleabag is the woke, insufferable and unappealing co-star to Harrison Ford [Indy], in the new Indiana Jones 5 movie.
The first Indiana Jones movie was released in 1981, and that’s like 42 years ago. But over the past 15 years, no new movies were released, and no new cartoons, video games or books. Thus it actually grew old in the minds of a lot of fans… but that’s not why the latest Indy 5 movie failed, because Topgun Maverick, [released in 2022, and being a sequel to an old movie from 1986], fully proved to Hollywood that old movie franchises can still be profitable, if they’re done right.
Now let’s move on to my research on Fleabag.
I decided to track what she’s been up to in recent times.
Per the published details on the last James Bond movie titled "No Time To Die", after the longtime Producers of James Bond had creative differences with the original Director and his collaborator, those men left the project, and they did not approve of the 1st script and the movies direction, which contradicted their vision of how things should end for the Bond Saga.
So two new guys came in: a new director and new writer were brought in, to rewrite the whole thing.
And the Producers wanted to appease the woke crowd, so they brought in Fleabag, to go over an already completed 2nd script. So she "polished" it in 2017 / 2018, and they claimed the “polish” was done at the request of Daniel Craig... and yet he got killed at the end of the movie... and Daniel never personally confirmed the claim… so their claim was probably a lie.
Hence Fleabag's ideologies were tossed into the 2nd script.
Then the Filming started in 2019. And the Movie was released in 2021. And it made roughly 770 million dollars globally.
Thus Hollywood believed Fleabag was a big Producer with Excellent Writing and Acting Talent, per her former BBC TV shows. And they believed her handiwork was a big part of the movie's final box office tally [which was actually less than some former Bond movies with Craig; since Skyfall, released in 2012, made about 1.14 Billion globally].
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