I'm hearing that there's an exodus from the industry, but the countervailing force is the unionization drive. De-aging Nick Fury in an Avengers movie is just inherently cooler than de-aging Robert De Niro in the Irishman. So people love what they do, and they work really hard. Audiences love these movies, they're huge shits, so they want their name on it. I mean, if this gets unionized like the rest of the film industry, this is going to be a sweet gig"
Bad visual effects in movies may have less to do with technology and more to do with workers being underpaid and overworked. Vulture senior reporter Chris Lee explains in this episode of Into It.
This episode was produced for Into It by Travis Larchuk and Jordana Hochman with help from Today, Explained's Siona Peterous, Laura Bullard, and Patrick Boyd.
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