{"id":111814,"date":"2022-12-15T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/the-creator-of-one-of-the-best-works-of-recent-science-fiction-reveals-his-crazy-plan-in-case-he-disappears-from-hbo-max\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:35:14","slug":"the-creator-of-one-of-the-best-works-of-recent-science-fiction-reveals-his-crazy-plan-in-case-he-disappears-from-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/the-creator-of-one-of-the-best-works-of-recent-science-fiction-reveals-his-crazy-plan-in-case-he-disappears-from-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"the creator of one of the best works of recent science fiction reveals his crazy plan in case he disappears from HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the recent movements in streaming, especially those of HBO Max and its plans to remove from its catalog some series of the depth of ‘Westworld’, some of the creators and producers they are seeing the ears of the wolf<\/strong> and they are already planning what to do if their series stays in limbo.<\/p>\n

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It is the case of Patrick Somerville<\/strong>creator of ‘Estaci\u00f3n Once’ (Station Eleven), the excellent sci-fi limited series<\/strong> that HBO Max premiered a year ago. With the uncertainty of the precariousness of streaming, a fan of the post-apocalyptic drama asked if there would be a physical copy on DVD\/BluRay in case it was no longer available.<\/p>\n

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“Not even the people who make series have a fucking idea”<\/h2>\n

It is then that Somerville made a brief outline of how things were in the current world of television, and to what extent they take into account or inform the creators of the windows and editions of their series, ensuring that they had not been notified that they were going to release the DVD version<\/strong> (came out in October) and therefore could not oversee the process.<\/p>\n

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In addition, the creator of ‘Estaci\u00f3n Eleven’ and ‘Maniac’ was powerless before the “law of the jungle”<\/strong> that was ruling the audiovisual scene in the streaming era, where no one was safe from disappearing:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe only way to truly ensure that shows stay available is for them to generate too much interest (and run out) for anyone who justifies taking them down. (…) If you take something from this thread, let it be this: not even the people who make series have a fucking idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is going to happen tomorrow, as much as the executives who have passionately fought for them for years have no idea of if they will have work tomorrow. That goes all the way to CEOs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally Somerville shared his contingency plan<\/strong>which is quite in line with what was expected considering how the series affects the power of stories and entertainment:<\/p>\n

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“If ‘Station Eleven’ ever goes away I promise to buy an acre of land somewhere in the Mojave Desert and just play it on a loop, projected onto a rock, forever.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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