Apologies are due on the statement last week that Great America didn't conquer the world with honour - apparently they did... or are going to, at any rate.
One might as well follow up on the mid-February post on James Bond just cutting to the chase with a direct assault using IWI Negev light machine guns (about a fortnight before he might well have been involved in the U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury on Iran), and let's just say that I'm moving up my timeline from last April for Hollywood being (largely) replaced, from five years to two and a bit - if they are lucky.
You've probably seen the three-minute Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise fight clip (that would probably have cost at least a cool hundred million for both stars to get involved in real life) by Seedance already, and it so happened that I had lost Daniel Craig's namecard from my Rolodex. Not a problem nowadays - just got to generate the initial frame with Google Nano Banana, and then hand it over to Seedance 2.0 to stretch out. Sure, it might not be entirely convincing, but as a single take from a one-sentence prompt, it ain't that bad - and is only going to get better:
Three-hour movie?! The TikTok generation will barely give you three minutes! That's why we are moving to a pay-by-the-second model!
