Lawrence is a contributing reporter at Engadget, specializing in our AI overlords, musical doodads and, of course, garden variety gaming and tech. To that end, Lawrence once lost badly in multiplayer Mario to Nintendo’s own Shigeru Miyamoto, who laughed gleefully as he threw him down a pit.
in a couple of years, leading some to wonder if it was quietly canned. The good news? The movie’s still coming. The bad news? The budget has been slashed,. He announced the reduced budget during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con . He didn’t put out any numbers, but did say that the movie is currently being “reconfigured” to be a “more personal” film.
“The new regime has lowered the budgets,” Lee said at Comic-Con. “So we’re doing a much smaller version.” In addition to budget cuts, Lee noted that Netflix has changed its compensation strategy with regard to movies. It’s shifting to a more traditional model that relies on bonuses tied to actual viewership numbers.
This could actually be good news. In my opinion, personal stories tend to work better than constant CGI battles with hordes of faceless baddies.is also, at its heart, a personal story about family, with the fantastical Rapture setting being window dressing. I guess it ultimately depends on how much of that budget was cut. There’s a big difference between a slightly reduced budget and a massive cut that turns all of the footage into darkened corridor scenes filmed in a series of Toronto or Atlanta warehouses. The release date hasn’t been announced and, honestly, it could still be a ways off. Director Lawrence
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