Showrunners planned for five seasons, with each three-episode arc commanding something like a $75M budget and months of filming. This was planned back when Netflix, HBO, and Apple were pushing out projects on a similar scale for their top tier shows. Gilroy notes that, at the current pace of release, the project wouldn’t have been completed until 2034. Some degree of scaleback had been anticipated for a while.
But post-COVID and following a huge industry-wide reevaluation of the prospective future growth of the Streaming media model, the big studios decided to cut back significantly. HBO / Warner Bros, under newly minted CEO David Zaslov, led the pack by going so far as to scrap existing projects and take a tax deduction rather than releasing functionally finished projects. Now Max is fully invested in Discovery Channel tier Reality TV and back catalog movies. Netflix began hard-capping their projects and churning out a bunch of AI-generated slop a year or two ago and is also heavily leaning on its back catalog. Disney is just following the pattern.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks.
Every season was effectively planned to be a year, in the five year run up to Rogue One / New Hope timeline.
They had 5 seasons originally?
Goddamn bullshit we got fucking robbed. That is so much story there they could have done.
I thought they did the giant jumps in time in the series because they didn’t have good stuff, but it’s because Disney fucking sucks. Yay.
Showrunners planned for five seasons, with each three-episode arc commanding something like a $75M budget and months of filming. This was planned back when Netflix, HBO, and Apple were pushing out projects on a similar scale for their top tier shows. Gilroy notes that, at the current pace of release, the project wouldn’t have been completed until 2034. Some degree of scaleback had been anticipated for a while.
But post-COVID and following a huge industry-wide reevaluation of the prospective future growth of the Streaming media model, the big studios decided to cut back significantly. HBO / Warner Bros, under newly minted CEO David Zaslov, led the pack by going so far as to scrap existing projects and take a tax deduction rather than releasing functionally finished projects. Now Max is fully invested in Discovery Channel tier Reality TV and back catalog movies. Netflix began hard-capping their projects and churning out a bunch of AI-generated slop a year or two ago and is also heavily leaning on its back catalog. Disney is just following the pattern.
Every season was effectively planned to be a year, in the five year run up to Rogue One / New Hope timeline.