Lindelof and Kennedy and Spencer, Oh My!

The biggest news of the week was the Writer’s Strike, which despite our goal for this post series, isn’t exactly old news. In fact, it’s still ongoing and there are a lot of complicated pieces. Aside from that, we have a story from Damon Lindelof about getting dropped from his Star Wars project, Phil Spencer reflecting on his console’s place in the market, and Kathleen Kennedy admitting what everyone has known for awhile: Star Wars needs to be spread out more.

All that and more is Old News Now!


Lindelof Was Tossed Out an Airlock

Hire someone with strong creative choices? Check! Let them write you an interesting (potentially) script? Check! Fire them so you can hire much more direct-able writers to give you more safe sugar cookies for the mass audience to consume and than instantly forget about? Check! Welcome to Disney, you’ll do great here. -Bryan


Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense

As with all things, caution is the best course of action, but the point remains. For the average person, this sort of hacking is not going to be a concern. Also, props to Apple for being the more difficult of the phones to breach. That’s at least one thing going for ya. -Jon


Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk’s continued debasing

I get it. Musk = bad. I just wish that instead of hopping to the nearest questionable service at best, we put a little thought into which social media services might be the better replacement. Also, there’s no reason why Jack won’t just sell Bluesky to another thumb thumb once there’s a profitable userbase. Remember, we are the product. -Jon


Dune Part Two trailer

I cannot wait for this, the first was amazing and this one looks even better. -Matt


Hollywood Writers Go on Strike, Halting Production

I hope that a more equitable deal can be reached and that the writers make headway toward better treatment. -Jon


Phil spits truth

Post Redfall launch Phil Spencer is getting real honest about his consoles place in the world -Bryan


Star Wars Movies Need to Be James Bond-Like Events, Says Kathleen Kennedy

I mean…duh. The oversaturation of lesser quality entries burned me out. We could stand to have 3-5 years between SW films AND series. -Jon


Well, there you have it – a nice snapshot of the news stories that interested us this past week. I don’t suppose you have thoughts on any of these stories, do you? Because if you did I would like to recommend you let us know over at our discord. Similarly, if you’ve found some interesting news in the wild that you would like us to share on Fridays, let us know sooner rather than later.

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