No lighting crew for Doug Liman's "Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi".

Uli Meyer · April 25

How sad is this?

https://www.pastemagazine.com/media/gen-v-canceled-2-seasons-the-boys-spin-off-prime-video

Aristeidis Tyropolis · April 25

I believe your link is referencing another story - but from my read of that movie on your title, I think there's alot of tech-based approach due to the crypto topic in hand - they posited that the movie would have cost 300 Millions if shot on location, but I'm a bit skeptical of the premise that the production actually needs to fly and shoot to all those unnamed locations.

Found a link here:

https://nofilmschool.com/doug-liman-ai-movie

I smell "Let's promote some A.I company" vibes that uses fancy machinery - but I could be wrong.

Tyler Purcell · April 25

Yea, volumetric sets never really took off in the way people thought they would. Frankly, I would vastly prefer a 180 degree volume set managed by AI, but the shot made in camera, to entirely fabricated in post production AI nonsense. There is no reason outside of literal laziness, that they couldn't have shot with a volumetric set and some little set pieces like door frames/walls and some interface pieces like tables and chairs. A clever set designer could easily make it happen and recycle props as the production goes on. I guess 20 days was their budget and they just didn't have enough time to make new props?

Aristeidis Tyropolis · April 25

That's why it smells wrong to me, they said they had 70mil, I mean come on, clearly you can shoot a worthy item with this amount of money.

Aapo Lettinen · April 25

They are probably trying to find the lowest passable treshold value for content. If people still accept it then they will produce tons more of the cheapest slop.

Kind of same like those AI generated Peppa Pig scam videos on youtube where the characters are doing something random for couple of seconds and then scene changes and again couple of random seconds of nonsense and changing again because that is all they could generate for cheap.

Freakin street vendors selling worse and worse quality items every day, finally trying to sell you rocks and then if still not buying anything they want you to pay them money so that they would leave you alone.

Scamming is the king, not content

Edited April 25 by Aapo Lettinen

Don H Marks · April 26

Here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/doug-liman/doug-liman-killing-satoshi-big-gray-ai-movie-box

Albion Hockney · April 26

I mean this is just a film being shot on volume. It’s not the first … maybe it’s the largest scope all shot on volume?

it still takes lots of departments and expertise and lighting skill…you certainly still use some movie lights and work with the volumes projection to light with.

Geffen Avraham · April 26

It's not the Volume. They're not using an LED stage from what I understand, just a depressing gray backroom.

Also, $70M? That sounds extremely fishy to me. Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is a period epic with 7 Oscar winning actors shot entirely on 70mm film. It's also 4 hours long.

Adjusted for inflation, Hamlet cost $37M.