Over the last decade or so it has become obvious that Hollywood and specifically, Disney is more interested in producing content that adheres to a social justice message than they care about making money. Examples of this are plentiful. Every recent installment of the Star Wars movies and their spin-off television series has suffered heavily from this policy. And recently the fans have reacted to this decision by abandoning the franchise. And to a greater or lesser degree similar results have been seen in the other Disney entertainment franchises; Indiana Jones, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and even things like the Toy Story movies. It’s gotten so bad that Disney has been forced to fire directors, cancel series and scale back earnings estimates. Which is something no CEO wants to do.
I have heard that Hollywood is claiming that they’ve heard the message and they will rededicate themselves to producing entertainment that is actually entertaining to regular people. Now if that happened, I would be ecstatic. Seeing Hollywood learn its lesson and focus its significant talents into putting out original and entertaining movies would be phenomenal.
But it won’t happen.
The people who run Hollywood are social justice extremists from the soles of their feet up to their eyebrows. They would rather see their companies go broke than give up their message. They will keep pumping out Star Wars movies that feature lesbian space witches of color as the main characters until Disney has to shut down the studio. The idea that the ticket buying public wanted to see Luke Skywalker rescue Princess Leia with the assistance of Han Solo and that all three were white, sexually normal characters is completely unacceptable to them. They have the same message as the Harris campaign, “We won’t go back.”
So that means the future of entertainment won’t be Hollywood. And we’re already seeing the alternatives. I’ve been informed by one of my grandsons that movies are being made based on the fiction produced by YouTube influencers who write stories based on video games. So, a space video game has an audience of tens of millions of boys and young men. And one guy writes a narrative story as an adventure in that game and millions of these gamers read the story and because of this immense popularity a movie studio (Amazon or Netflix) produces a movie from this story.
Well, there’s nothing wrong with that. Eventually that will replace Hollywood nicely. Someone said to me that this won’t avoid the social justice activists because all the studios are the same. But there are indications that isn’t true. A couple of years ago Netflix produced Dave Chappelle’s comedy series that was pretty strongly critical of the transgender agenda. When Netflix employees protested the series, they were told overtly by Netflix that if their consciences wouldn’t allow them to work for a company that produced the Chappelle series, they should work somewhere else. And that put an end to the protests. I suspect that a home will be found for content that has an enormous built-in audience even if there is an extreme shortage of lesbian space witches of color in the script. Maybe it’ll be Netflix that steps in or maybe it’ll be a new company that an entrepreneur like Musk founds. But at this point it’ll happen because people are still people and they want to be amused and message fiction isn’t entertaining. It’s boring so something will have to give way. Au revoir lesbian space witches of color.