Changing course on the Netflix side. After the arrival of a new head of the “films” department on April 1, the American giant seems to be choosing a new strategy regarding the production of its feature films.
In any case, this is what we are learning in this article New York Times Which offers a very interesting insight into the changes that have started in the last few weeks.
No more little privileges
When Netflix started producing its own movies, the American giant wanted to stand out from the competition by offering its talent complete creative freedom and a sizeable budget.
The platform has not hesitated to spend money to have in its stable big directors like Martin Scorsese and Alfonso Cuarón, but also bankable actors like Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson.
If this formula worked until recently, times seem to have changed. In the NYT article we learn that Netflix “He no longer wants to create blockbusters with such great talent gray man and red notice” (which are the most viewed on the platform) but movies “Better quality, cheaper and less frequent“.
talent drain
This statement is reassuring even if we wait to see the results with our own eyes. But this change in direction has also forced Netflix to push back on certain projects. Thus we learn that Kathryn Bigelow’s next film, which was announced with great fanfare two years ago, will no longer be made.
The increasingly rare Minesweepers Oscar-winning director was set to direct Aurora , an adaptation of David Koepp’s SF novel. The latter plunged us into an apocalyptic world after a solar storm knocked out most of the power grids.
A divorced mother who must protect her son then approaches her brother, a wealthy Silicon Valley CEO who has built a lavish bunker in the desert to deal with such a disaster…
Kathryn Bigelow left the project a few months ago, not knowing why, and it seems she made the same decision as other directors who found their happiness elsewhere, such as Scorsese, who collaborated with Apple on Killers of the Flower Moon (which was then promised a theatrical release. His on a streaming platform).
Does this mean the end of the collaboration between Netflix and the big names in Hollywood? Nothing is less certain. If some, like Guillermo del Toro, continue to work with the American giant, budget cuts and a more drastic choice of projects should not please everyone…
Source: Allocine
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