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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Thus Fleabag became some sort of poster child for woke polishing and woke performing. And the Hollywood Studio Execs believed a lie that fit their woke narrative, even though the writing was on the wall.
So Fleabag was added to the cast of Indiana Jones 5, per the desires of Kathleen Kennedy [the current head of Lucas Film]. And Fleabag’s radiant star power was expected to carry the movie, as she overshadowed the 80-year-old original actor [Harrison Ford], constantly mocking and belittling him in his own franchise.
Per the honest reviews, although the first act of the entire Indy 5 movie was entertaining, the overall movie had a lot of plot holes, and it was not a good story. Word is, the entire movie was reshot, thus ballooning the budget… some are even saying it cost between 350 to 400 million to produce the whole thing, before adding marketing.
And since the revealed plot leaks at the Cannes Film Festival a few months ago, the longtime fans already gave up hope of seeing anything good on the big screen.
Of course the Indiana Jones 5 movie has failed. It brought in 60.3 million dollars over the first 3 days, while costing over 350 million [before you add at least 150 million, in global marketing]. Plus people often forget that the movie theaters always take 50 percent of the cut, and the foreign countries give back between 40-20 percent of the profit, for the US movie studio to collect. Thus you can’t always depend on the international box office receipts. Hence, for the US-based movie studio to make a profit from Indy 5, they'd need to make 900 million to 1 billion dollars in ticket sales globally.
-Sigh- Good luck to Lucas Film and Disney. Per their arrogance, over the past decade, they took their audience for granted, by putting their personal political nonsense above good storytelling and proper character development. And now, the broader audience has walked out on them.
Plus their in-house studio drama [revealed by insiders working there in Burbank CA and exposed on Youtube] is way better than the movies they've been putting out lately.
So will they finally learn from their arrogant egregious mistakes? Only time will tell...
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