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Secret Invasion
2023 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Kyle Bradstreet
DramaScience FictionFantasyActionAdventure
Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
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Hollywood productions have already begun shifting back toward using extras instead of CGI actors.
It turns out it's a lot cheaper to just tell a real person to do something different in real time a bunch of times over the course of a day then it is to tell animators to animate a bunch of CGI people differently a bunch of times.
Extras don't get paid that much to begin with (a fixed, flat rate which varies depending on the type of production i.e., commercial vs TV vs movie). Digital artists don't get paid all that much either, but the disparity is large enough that you actually lose money (compared to hiring a real-person extra) if you need to re-animate a CGI extra more than once. And quite frankly, given the limited VFX budgets most productions have to work with, it's better to spend the VFX budget on actual visual effects than on background filler. Otherwise, you end up with Dr Strange 2, Secret Invasion, and the Book of Boba Fett...
I'd guess that "the market" would be perfectly happy with good movies in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones film franchises. What we've been getting is "deconstructions of the patriarchy" instead. That is, rather than continue the story of beloved characters, or have them become beloved mentors for a new generation, Disney has taken male characters, painted them as weak, stupid, or damaged, then inserted a female that is already completely awesome without any learning or earning. Said female berates the beloved character throughout the movie, then saves the day instead of the male character.
They did this in Indy 5, they did this in the new Star Wars movies, they did this in Marvel's Secret Invasion, and She Hulk... And it's awful.