![]() “It was surprisingly early, and he was surprisingly excited,” says Mason. I just want to point to how the concept of this movie began, as reported by Entertainment Weekly: The day after parts of the country went into official lockdown on March 13, received a call from his writing partner Simon Boyes. Hell, even with 60 years of hindsight, Bay made a Pearl Harbor movie that is widely considered a disgrace to the 2,403 sailors who lost their lives. And I don't think the guy who made Megan Fox wash his Ferrari to audition for Transformers is the best person to thoughtfully find meaning in a pandemic that has no end in sight. I have friends right now who are suffering from COVID, loved ones who are fearing for their lives. I have no idea!īut it's the concept of this thing that really ticks me off. And it's quite possible that this movie could be great. ![]() It's not generally a good idea to cast judgment upon something without actually seeing it. Typically I don't judge a movie by its trailer. If you want to see a group of soldiers pointing guns at Archie from Riverdale, who is holding up his hands in surrender, yelling "whoa whoa whoa, I'm immune." If you can even sit through a trailer that uses the most obvious, lazy near future sci-fi tropes but repackages them with a COVID facelift. If you want to see images of Los Angeles in flames, where, for some reason, buildings have been destroyed because of a virus. Unless of course, you want to hear the phrase COVID-23. The movie doesn't have a release date, but any release date is too soon. ![]() It's too soon to tell how it will all play out, but today, Michael Bay offered a glimpse at the future of a Hollywood-ized pandemic movie. But, a lot of it, you can be sure, will be opportunistic trash. Some of this will be valuable-art, after all, has a powerful way of helping us take stock of what happened, where we're headed, and what has become of a society collectively ravaged by a disaster. There will be novels, there will be shows, there will be movies. In the coming months and years there is undoubtedly going to be a surge of fictionalized COVID-tainment. The upcoming season of Grey's Anatomy will have a COVID-focused season, which executive producer Krista Vernoff says was conceived because the show has "an opportunity and a responsibility" to show how the pandemic affects healthcare workers. Gal Gadot pulled together a group of celebrities for a widely mocked cover of John Lennon's "Imagine." Rob McElhenney and his team at Mythic Quest, wrote a hilarious of-the-moment COVID episode that finds some levity in our collective struggle to figure out working from home. In the last seven months, we've seen Hollywood attempt to cope with the pandemic to varying degrees of success.
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