You can’t promote the movie, but can you talk about it? It’s just friendly talk among friends, you know, like colleagues complaining of working on “project x”, stuff that’s definitely not going to become public at all
As a real, professional actor and also as a contributing user of Lemmy, I resent being compared to a reddit novelty account with only one non-sequitur joke that wasn’t even that funny (even to wrestling fans) to begin with.
Right? It says he went “scorched-earth”, but that implies he has any sway over WB decisions. What would he do if they don’t listen to him? Whine about it on Twitter?
The entire market cap of WB Discovery is less than he’s already lost on Twitter. Their cap is about $25B. Musk spent $44B on Twitter and has absolutely destroyed it like a bull in a china shop to the point that it’s now worth less than $10B, with some estimates coming in between $4-5B.
That said, the far right movement in this country is such that he can hang a legitimate threat over people and companies just by his outsized media presence.
I would imagine the most threatening thing would be that he’d fund her tieing them up in litigation until they caved out paid her a settlement worth me than her contract.
Yeah but he used a ton of other people’s money to buy Twitter and destroy it, and even as the worst investment in history, there’s immense political value in letting him shit the bed with his new toy. He wouldn’t be able to get financing to spite-fuck WB because he’s a whiny little baby.
Maybe… But the far right also famously hates Amber Heard, as they were ones pushing much of the negative media attention against her during the public trial. Hell, the Daily Wire (Ben Shapiro’s outlet) was running an entire ad campaign against her. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Heard, the idea Musk could believably threaten anyone with “the far right” in this situation isn’t realistic.
He could always just publicly massively overbid on a hostile takeover of WB to push his weight around which backfires when he realizes he's paying way too much and gets sued into going through with the purchase anyways because its a massive golden parachute for the top brass at WB that far exceeds any profits they had planned to produce in the next 10 years. Then he can make movies any way he wants.
Welcome to America, the land of paying your own court costs.
To put it another way, you can set a pile of money on fire, and your opponent either has to do the same or give you what you want. You can only make the other guy pay you back in certain types of lawsuits, and the process can go on for years if you burn enough money
Musk is a billionaire with anger issues currently going through some kind of mid-life crisis, and has spent months dancing around the largest money fire in history, regularly loudly throwing on more fuel (just in case some of the money remains unburnt)
And btw, you can sue anyone for any reason… the judge just might throw out the case if it’s too dumb
WB doesn’t care about frivolous lawsuits, even from someone as rich as musk. Unless they were sued by him thousands of times at once, their legal costs are already baked into their financials, and if they were sued thousands of times at once, that’d be the easiest dismissal in history, as well as the quickest countersuit for damages.
The rich can bully the poor’s with legal fees, but not each other. That’s why we don’t see uncountable fruitless lawsuits between the powerful - it wouldn’t do anything.
He used to go to the same saloon in Seattle that I frequented. I met him right before he started filming Conan. He was a funny guy. I bet he was hilarious mocking Depp to irk Heard. Wish I could have seen that!
Musk is a piece of shit and detriment to society, Heard is a run of the mill rich cunt, and Aquaman is a dumb superhero so I was never going to watch anyhow.
Fuck that musk asshole. He’s clearly a complete moron and can’t manage anything right (and he’s never doing his job) so why would anyone care what he thinks?? Why do we keep giving this fucking loser oxygen??
This is one of those “wut?” moments. I wouldn’t be surprised if WB just said f it and kept her in because this movie will bookend the current iteration DCEU franchise so it hardly matters one way or the other.
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