It could be worse:
The spy thriller Without Remorse, which stars Michael B. Jordan, has been moved from September 18th, 2020 to October 2nd, 2020. This film tells the origin story of John Kelly, a Navy SEAL who avenges his wife’s murder only to find himself inside a larger conspiracy.
A two week delay isn’t bad, particularly since the movie schedule lately has had all those entries lost in time, like tears in rain. It might not even be because of the pandemic. Also: damn, but I miss movie theaters. I hope I can see this one on the big screen.
Speaking of movie theaters ..
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I’d very much like to see a return to “theater as an event” rather than “cheaply built multiplexes”.
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My thought is it’s gonna take some serious thought to turn a theater into something COVID-19 compliant .. almost need to rip out all the seats and rebuild the entire space, with a focus on “boxes” .. and at that point, the multiplexes, which are engineered down to the square centimeter to maximize profit – are gonna have a real tough go / no-go call.
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The neighborhood theater will struggle too, of course, but .. can do local fundraising and can seek to serve underserved groups – “Monday – Wednesday – Friday educational films for home-school moms” .. “Tuesday is Anime Night” .. “Wednesday free movie tickets with purchase of a $5 hot dog” ..
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Not 100% sure whether going to “boxed seats” would allow serving booze, but that’s very lucrative if possible. (the local theater serves wine and beer in the balcony – must be 21 to enter – main floor is general admission and open to all ..)
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Mew
Absolutely my favorite Clancy novel.
“This film tells the origin story of John Kelly, a Navy SEAL who avenges his wife’s murder only to find himself inside a larger conspiracy.”
Well, I just got a bad feeling about this.
In the original novel, his roaring rampage of revenge is triggered by the murder (and attack on him at the same time) of a young woman who had run away from home, been enslaved into prostitution here in the US, and found Kelly while escaping. Kelly – who’s grieving over the non-criminal death of his wife – picks her up, hits it off with her, and is with her when she’s murdered by her former pimps (who’ve also been using their girls as drug mules). The only conspiracy involves how the drugs are getting into the country in the first place, and it’s a pretty low-level one as such things go. It’s something that should be stopped on general principle (for a number of reasons). But it’s not one of the earth-shattering variety. It’s just some fairly low-level corruption involving a creative (if unfortunate) method of smuggling heroin into the country.
The sentence indicates that the writers are changing things so that he’s avenging his wife’s murder. Since I’m pretty confident that they’re not going to depict his wife as a prostitute and drug mule, that suggests that they’re throwing out most of the original plot, probably to replace it with yet another garden-variety conspiracy by powerful forces in either the corporate or government world (or both, of course). Suddenly I’m a lot less enthusiastic about this.