>$150 million budget>$488k box officewhat went wrong?
>>220261024No marketing and he's a charisma vacuum
lollook at him
>>220261024Seems like there's a bigger chance than ever for movies that cost too much to lose a lot of money. This also had no marketing as far as I know. Even if it did, who wants to see discount Captain playing super discount TE Lawrence?
>>220261024>Kangz n shietNah but on a real who's going to the cinema to watch Anthony Mackie read a Saudi script in the desert
>>220261024we wuz arabs n shiet
>>220261024> ScarJo, please! PLEASE! Let me try and hit that....
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>>220261024>make a movie about a period of history no one gives a shit about>about historical persons no one cares about>cast the shittiest actor you can as the lead>throw in Ben Kingsley because he'll do anything>give it a completely forgettable, generic, direct-to-video movie name
>>220261024I have fatigue of this guy. If you'll call a black man, call a likeable one. It feels like Hollywood only casts around twenty people nowadays.
>>220261024I hear his role isn't even big and they just cast him for publicity. Perhaps the movie would have done better without him. At least it would certainly have been cheaper.
>>220262119"YOU NEED TO DO BETTER SENATOR"
>>220262131>cast the shittiest actor you can as the leadThat would've been Timothee Chalamet. Thankfully they avoided that mistake.
>>220261024WE WUZZZ...eh,I dont know waht this is suposed to be,so whatever
The budget wasn't used on the movie it was to build the infrastructure for a film industry in Saudi Arabia.
>>220262128HEY HEY PEOPLE
>>220261024>foreign country wants to challenge Hollywood>"should we try to make a movie that appeals to a broader demographic like the Koreans and Americans do?">"No! Lets make a movie about our niche boring history"They always fall for this trap
>>220262131this shit was supposed to be based on real history? the trailer was so vague i assumed it was some random horseshit that borrows historical aesthetics like 13th warrior. i don't think a single character was named
>>220262509You just wait bro the kids these days can't wait to get engrossed in the brand new Saudidrama I'm sure
no one wants to watch that niggerhe's part of the reason why MCU is dying
>>220262131>cast the shittiest actor you can as the leadMy understanding is that he's the co-star and this chick is the actual star of the movie.
>>220262718So they made the main character a brown woman? They were trying real hard to make this movie fail
>>220262742It's a movie made in Saudi Arabia, by Saudi Arabians about (fictionalized) Saudi Arabian history, so it's hardly surprising that the star of the movie would be a Saudi Arabian chick. >Set in seventh-century Arabia, amongst the constant feuding between tribes, the ruthless Emperor Kisra wishes to make Princess Hind his concubine. However, she refuses and instead, with the help of a legendary bandit, looks to confront the Emperor, culminating in the Battle of Ze Qar.[7]
>>220261024should have gotten a blue eyed blond guy to play the hero
>>220261024apprenently they dumped this movie for 3 years before finally releasing it maybe they were hopping for another George Flyod scenario acitvating white guilt movie gowers
>>220262885>let's have a woman, a bongoloud and a black african in the lead roles of our historical epicholy shit! saudis are more cucked than netflix
>>220262925>>220263007Anthony Mackie isn't the problem here:>Damon Wise of Deadline Hollywood writes that "extraordinary images" were captured by the director and cinematographer, but that the film ultimately turns into "a stodgy, sprawling, feminist, pre-Islamic Gandhi."[21]Made sense to cast Mackie, as you'd want an American actor to get the American audience and as fewer Whites go to theaters nowadays because of all the Blacks who are going, a Black-American actor made sense also.
>>220263158>Anthony Mackie isn't the problem here:he and his name is on the cover so that makes it a problem here
>>220263158Even the blacks dont like him
>>220261024Imagine that they hired Michael B. Jordan for the role for 10 mill more.
>>220261024The perpetrators of 9/11 and modern day slavers trying to go mainstream by buying movie and game studios, golf tournaments, etc. But whites have a strong aversion to the Arab. Its a racial hatred.
no marvel planket to defend his shitty acting
>>220262119this is specially funny since marvel comics always have their characters fuck like bunnies between them and speacially black widow.
>>220261024Why would you ever put a black man on the cover to sell your movie? It doesn't work.
