The legacy in question is that of Warner Bros, the studio responsible for this garish digitized eyesore, and for giving it a deeper existential motivation. Everyone involved seems unaware that in fixating on the company’s past, they’re losing sight of any future it could possibly have. Unlike Disney or Marvel, which can organize their vast reserves of IP under the logical umbrella of princesses or superheroes, there’s no connecting order to the mashup extravaganza mounted via the Warner Bros aegis. As commercial propaganda, this isn’t even convincing, portraying the studio it set out to glorify as a fading institution entering its decadent last-days-of-Rome phase. In this display of expensive corporate onanism, we arrive at a creative dead end for a studio reliant on classics that they’ve stopped minting.

Source: The Guardian July 14, 2021 18:56 UTC