Andrew Todd
@andrewtodd.co.nz
NZ/Can writer/director, consultant, and recovering film/games critic (RIP BMD). 1/2 of Freak Development. NZ Writers Guild board member. Inspired by actual events.
A Republican strategist commenting on Vance/Rubio as a presidential ticket, and also on his lack of understanding of Roman mythology lmao
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A Republican strategist commenting on Vance/Rubio as a presidential ticket, and also on his lack of understanding of Roman mythology lmao
So one of these incubator companies, Zingroll ("the world's largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform") is leading its content off with, uh...this, obviously AI-generated blurb and all
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So one of these incubator companies, Zingroll ("the world's largest Netflix-quality AI streaming platform") is leading its content off with, uh...this, obviously AI-generated blurb and all
Published 453 days ago and the slop era has only intensified
October 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Published 453 days ago and the slop era has only intensified
Today, we go into tech on Hansol Jung's WOLF PLAY. What a delight it's been rehearsing this beautiful, hilarious, moving little play, and what a nightmare* it's about to be coordinating hundreds of lighting and sound cues, prop choreography, running water, and more. Theatre!
* affectionate
* affectionate
October 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Today, we go into tech on Hansol Jung's WOLF PLAY. What a delight it's been rehearsing this beautiful, hilarious, moving little play, and what a nightmare* it's about to be coordinating hundreds of lighting and sound cues, prop choreography, running water, and more. Theatre!
* affectionate
* affectionate
I have reached the age where I have been cast in a play as A Dad (costume reference attached)
September 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I have reached the age where I have been cast in a play as A Dad (costume reference attached)
I am reminded of this Not The Nine O'Clock News song about infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley (and, more pointedly, about the press coverage of his death)
(for context: this was the often savagely satirical sketch comedy show best remembered for launching Rowan Atkinson's career)
(for context: this was the often savagely satirical sketch comedy show best remembered for launching Rowan Atkinson's career)
September 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I am reminded of this Not The Nine O'Clock News song about infamous British fascist Oswald Mosley (and, more pointedly, about the press coverage of his death)
(for context: this was the often savagely satirical sketch comedy show best remembered for launching Rowan Atkinson's career)
(for context: this was the often savagely satirical sketch comedy show best remembered for launching Rowan Atkinson's career)
Alien Earth doing great promo for @jonathanking.bsky.social tbh
September 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Alien Earth doing great promo for @jonathanking.bsky.social tbh
"This is the second time we have made How To Train Your Dragon 2, the third time we have made The Thomas Crown Affair, and the fourth time we have made Batman 2, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
September 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
"This is the second time we have made How To Train Your Dragon 2, the third time we have made The Thomas Crown Affair, and the fourth time we have made Batman 2, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
Mood board for the new thing
August 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Mood board for the new thing
A trailer for SIREN, the animated short @toxiquefilmbro.bsky.social and I spent the last several months working on
August 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
A trailer for SIREN, the animated short @toxiquefilmbro.bsky.social and I spent the last several months working on
I hope all 15 of them get a nasty splinter
July 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I hope all 15 of them get a nasty splinter
Avoiding the big tech "knife fight" by getting funded by literally the biggest tech company (and the world's second biggest company full stop)
July 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Avoiding the big tech "knife fight" by getting funded by literally the biggest tech company (and the world's second biggest company full stop)
Yes I'm sure these guardrails will hold up against the combined assault of the entire internet's well-documented predilection for bad-faith prompt hacking and other backdooring of dodgy shit
July 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yes I'm sure these guardrails will hold up against the combined assault of the entire internet's well-documented predilection for bad-faith prompt hacking and other backdooring of dodgy shit
Almost as if actual showrunning is a skilled art form that requires actual human thought to do
(I also question whether AI can "sustain a story" for even one episode and make it actually interesting)
(I also question whether AI can "sustain a story" for even one episode and make it actually interesting)
July 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Almost as if actual showrunning is a skilled art form that requires actual human thought to do
(I also question whether AI can "sustain a story" for even one episode and make it actually interesting)
(I also question whether AI can "sustain a story" for even one episode and make it actually interesting)
Again, I genuinely don't think audiences want this beyond it being a novelty they play around with briefly.
Kind of the issue with a lot of AI: it's a dumb novelty for most people, and an equally dumb get-rich-quick grift for talentless psychopaths
Kind of the issue with a lot of AI: it's a dumb novelty for most people, and an equally dumb get-rich-quick grift for talentless psychopaths
July 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Again, I genuinely don't think audiences want this beyond it being a novelty they play around with briefly.
Kind of the issue with a lot of AI: it's a dumb novelty for most people, and an equally dumb get-rich-quick grift for talentless psychopaths
Kind of the issue with a lot of AI: it's a dumb novelty for most people, and an equally dumb get-rich-quick grift for talentless psychopaths
South Park has been going for nearly 30 years but the fact that these absolute fucking cunts' test-drive of their plagiarism software was *literally a mockery of striking screenwriters* suggests that satire is, in fact, dead
July 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
South Park has been going for nearly 30 years but the fact that these absolute fucking cunts' test-drive of their plagiarism software was *literally a mockery of striking screenwriters* suggests that satire is, in fact, dead
Yes, I'm sure that was very reassuring to them /s
July 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Yes, I'm sure that was very reassuring to them /s
No way this expensive novelty winds up getting horribly misused. Not a chance.
July 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
No way this expensive novelty winds up getting horribly misused. Not a chance.
Again, a very funny admission, somewhat overshadowed by the equally funny revelation that there's an AI cybersecurity firm with the same name that presents itself as "solving this holistic human problem"
July 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Again, a very funny admission, somewhat overshadowed by the equally funny revelation that there's an AI cybersecurity firm with the same name that presents itself as "solving this holistic human problem"
It's almost as if these fucking people don't understand what audiences actually want at all and just want to extract money from investors by riding the tech industry's latest hype train
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's almost as if these fucking people don't understand what audiences actually want at all and just want to extract money from investors by riding the tech industry's latest hype train
I will grant that this is very funny
July 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I will grant that this is very funny
The sheer Silicon Valley brain-death required to think that what audiences really want from their favourite TV shows is for their boring asses to be characters in them
![“Hollywood streaming services are about to become two-way entertainment: audiences watching a season of a show [and] loving it will now be able to make new episodes with a few words and become characters with a photo,” Saatchi said. “Our relationship to entertainment will be totally different in the next five years.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:irmacamj6d2pwhrraj2konzh/bafkreieeua2f3cfz64s5xomaqzt36plv7wrbhfeoaex7a56lw46lfxnehi@jpeg)
July 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The sheer Silicon Valley brain-death required to think that what audiences really want from their favourite TV shows is for their boring asses to be characters in them
Lmao yeah I'm sure Disney, which famously loves people messing with its IP and maintains its enormous legal department mostly just to encourage free use of it, will be all over people diluting it into endless AI slop
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Lmao yeah I'm sure Disney, which famously loves people messing with its IP and maintains its enormous legal department mostly just to encourage free use of it, will be all over people diluting it into endless AI slop