Brian William Pachinger
@bwpachinger.bsky.social
Screenwriter/ Repped @ AllDayEveryDay
Mad all over again. I doubt they’ll revive it. But Jesus is this a bad look for Iger and Bergman and such a misread.
‘The Hunt For Ben Solo’: Steven Soderbergh & Adam Driver’s Secret ‘Star Wars’ Movie Was Greenlit Before Disney Pulled The Plug [Exclusive]
‘The Hunt For Ben Solo’: Steven Soderbergh & Adam Driver’s Secret ‘Star Wars’ Movie Was Greenlit Before Disney Pulled The Plug [Exclusive]
Shoulda, woulda, coulda, I guess. Six months ago, I learned that Steven Soderbergh and Adam Driver had quietly developed a post- “Rise of Skywalker” “Star Wars” film titled “The Hunt For Ben Solo,” written by Scott Z. Burns, but out of an abundance of reporterly caution, I didn’t go forward with the story. This week, Driver himself revealed the project’s existence in an Associated Press interview, confirming that he and Soderbergh had worked on a “Star Wars” movie that never came to fruition.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Mad all over again. I doubt they’ll revive it. But Jesus is this a bad look for Iger and Bergman and such a misread.
I NEED EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET TO KNOW I GAVE MY 3-YEAR-OLD TYLENOL BEFORE BEDTIME!!!
September 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I NEED EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET TO KNOW I GAVE MY 3-YEAR-OLD TYLENOL BEFORE BEDTIME!!!
CAUGHT STEALING: It's like Aronofsky found a lost Guy Ritchie treatment from 1999 and went ape shit to make it his own (complimentary).
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A ★★★★ review of Caught Stealing (2025)
It's like Aronofsky found a lost Guy Ritchie treatment from 1999 and went ape shit to make it his own (complimentary). A fascinating study in a director pushing themselves in new directions and yet st...
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August 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
CAUGHT STEALING: It's like Aronofsky found a lost Guy Ritchie treatment from 1999 and went ape shit to make it his own (complimentary).
Went longer here.
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David Zaslav will be CEO of the new, Discovery-free "Warner Bros."
He traded reality TV to become the mogul of Hollywood's most storied studio.
And all it took was a failed $43b merger, the loss of half the company's market valuation, and thousands of jobs.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/w... #FilmSky
He traded reality TV to become the mogul of Hollywood's most storied studio.
And all it took was a failed $43b merger, the loss of half the company's market valuation, and thousands of jobs.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/w... #FilmSky
Warner Bros. Discovery announces post-split companies will be 'Warner Bros.' and 'Discovery Global'
Warner Bros. Discovery announced the corporate names and leadership teams of its two companies for when the company separates in mid-2026.
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July 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
David Zaslav will be CEO of the new, Discovery-free "Warner Bros."
He traded reality TV to become the mogul of Hollywood's most storied studio.
And all it took was a failed $43b merger, the loss of half the company's market valuation, and thousands of jobs.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/w... #FilmSky
He traded reality TV to become the mogul of Hollywood's most storied studio.
And all it took was a failed $43b merger, the loss of half the company's market valuation, and thousands of jobs.
www.cnbc.com/2025/07/28/w... #FilmSky
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Points for truth: The title is DEAD CENTER but all you have to do is look at the cover picture to see that he's on the right.
Amazing: The first political memoir written exclusively for coal lobbyists who can expense their Axios Pro subscriptions
July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Points for truth: The title is DEAD CENTER but all you have to do is look at the cover picture to see that he's on the right.
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Writing a great movie takes patience and vision from everyone involved. Becoming a good studio writer requires a lot of practice, and good partners at the studio. We need execs who know what they want and can articulate it, and are willing to pay us to try to execute.
July 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Writing a great movie takes patience and vision from everyone involved. Becoming a good studio writer requires a lot of practice, and good partners at the studio. We need execs who know what they want and can articulate it, and are willing to pay us to try to execute.
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Another core reason for screenwriting’s suffering is the complete collapse of the development system in Hollywood. Studios no longer spend time or money developing ideas and working with writers, and after twenty years of this, we are left with a studio feature industry bereft of good writing.
One reason for that (this new movie aside) is, I think, the gigantic shift toward directors writing their own scripts since then. If directors/producers/studios view screenwriting as a means to an end rather than an artistic practice distinct from what they do, you're going to see the difference.
July 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Another core reason for screenwriting’s suffering is the complete collapse of the development system in Hollywood. Studios no longer spend time or money developing ideas and working with writers, and after twenty years of this, we are left with a studio feature industry bereft of good writing.
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This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.
June 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This would've been a daily stormer thread a decade ago. Neo-nazi conspiracy theories are mainstream now.
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I'm trying not to fall back into the bottomless rage I felt during Trump 1...but Jesus Christ. Can't he just rage shit himself to death and spare us all this needless chaos?
February 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I'm trying not to fall back into the bottomless rage I felt during Trump 1...but Jesus Christ. Can't he just rage shit himself to death and spare us all this needless chaos?
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The Nextdoor login screen is the kind of thing that makes most Nextdoor users post.
June 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Nextdoor login screen is the kind of thing that makes most Nextdoor users post.
Call me crazy but the one thing a hardcore record should do is make you feel something. Anything.
Anyways, there is a new Turnstile record out…
Anyways, there is a new Turnstile record out…
June 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Call me crazy but the one thing a hardcore record should do is make you feel something. Anything.
Anyways, there is a new Turnstile record out…
Anyways, there is a new Turnstile record out…
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FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
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June 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
FEMA Chief Confused By Wind
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you do not need to read or buy Jake Tapper's book to participate in the conversation about the role of journalism in a democracy.
May 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
you do not need to read or buy Jake Tapper's book to participate in the conversation about the role of journalism in a democracy.
It's gonna be wild when Soderbergh gets bored over a weekend and recuts M:I 7 and 8 into a single three-hour masterpiece.
May 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It's gonna be wild when Soderbergh gets bored over a weekend and recuts M:I 7 and 8 into a single three-hour masterpiece.
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The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
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The guy has already decided to go bowling. Once you’ve figured out “bowling” is what your kid wants, it is literally a five minute conversation with the bowling alley to plan it. You can order a cake in two minutes. None of these things are hard. Parenting your child is the hard part.
May 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The guy has already decided to go bowling. Once you’ve figured out “bowling” is what your kid wants, it is literally a five minute conversation with the bowling alley to plan it. You can order a cake in two minutes. None of these things are hard. Parenting your child is the hard part.
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The thing that makes kid birthday party planning difficult is not scheduling or arrangements but threading the needle between what you can afford, what is available, what you want to do, and what your kid will enjoy. There will never be an AI that can suss that out.
Making kids birthday plans sucks ass and I think a computer that could handle the work of doing it for me would actually be cool but I don't think either the existing tech or the tech as Thompson imagines it one day existing would be able to do this thing?
Wouldn't do this in a million years
May 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The thing that makes kid birthday party planning difficult is not scheduling or arrangements but threading the needle between what you can afford, what is available, what you want to do, and what your kid will enjoy. There will never be an AI that can suss that out.
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Kinda haven't stopped thinking about something McQ said on Scriptnotes a few weeks back. "What is cinema to me? The movies that strive to walk the center line between art and entertainment. You're trying to pull art closer to entertainment and entertainment closer to art."
June 12, 2023 at 10:34 PM
Kinda haven't stopped thinking about something McQ said on Scriptnotes a few weeks back. "What is cinema to me? The movies that strive to walk the center line between art and entertainment. You're trying to pull art closer to entertainment and entertainment closer to art."
I probably won't get to finish ANDOR for several days. If any of you spoil anything...
May 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I probably won't get to finish ANDOR for several days. If any of you spoil anything...
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The show is already solidly in profit and a week of free performances would not undo that. It would also guarantee the most exciting performances and enthusiastic audiences of the run. It's Shakespeare! If you treat it just as a bauble for the rich, I don't know why you're doing what you're doing. x
May 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The show is already solidly in profit and a week of free performances would not undo that. It would also guarantee the most exciting performances and enthusiastic audiences of the run. It's Shakespeare! If you treat it just as a bauble for the rich, I don't know why you're doing what you're doing. x
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Another Bway hot take: The Denzel Washington-Jake Gyllenhaal Othello should extend a week and those 8300 tickets should be free, with a portion reserved for students. A $921 ticket doesn't just say "You can't afford this," but "You will never be able to afford anything like this." It does damage. >
May 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Another Bway hot take: The Denzel Washington-Jake Gyllenhaal Othello should extend a week and those 8300 tickets should be free, with a portion reserved for students. A $921 ticket doesn't just say "You can't afford this," but "You will never be able to afford anything like this." It does damage. >
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If I learned anything going to school in the midwest, it's that if a Pope says he's "from Chicago," he's probably really from some suburb an hour from the city that sounds like the name of a bottled water brand.
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If I learned anything going to school in the midwest, it's that if a Pope says he's "from Chicago," he's probably really from some suburb an hour from the city that sounds like the name of a bottled water brand.