They're already been gimping the films and stories for them out of clueless desperation for a while now (and other creepy ideological based/devolved groups too) with the expected BIG drop in quality......but it's never enough for control freak authoritarians who simply (and easily) try to passive-aggressively bully the more easily-led and desperate while gutless folks into 'compliance' (like a bunch of high school knitting-circle bit©hes unfortunately) while so hoping to control everything!

I also liked when we tried to sell unique and original stories to other cultures rather than hoping to culturally colonialise them for the supposed sake of [insert supposed marginalised group here] like a clueless missionary from the past, while also hoping to seed self-righteous and deliberately-distractive division at home to help usher in our own form of creepy authoritarianism.

It's not an industry it's a Mafia styled Ponzi scheme revolving around and grifting off distractive entertainment...... in the hopes of 'contenting' folks!

Pretty much the entire industry is unionised.....yet is STILL strangely one of the most exploitative industries operating (my friends in REAL industries are always pretty horrified by my stories of 'fun' in the entertainment sector!)

It all flows in the right direction...... according to the studios and unions!

If you're not Paramount.......it IS actually a sequel, why do you think folks got excited for it? (Tom doing his own stunts only goes so far!)

I understand trying to see both sides but you don't have to go so far into Jedi hand wave territory..... and a movie title doesn't need a 2 to make it a sequel (which is probably part of the reason they called this Maverick, alongside Tom's ego!)

I'm no fan of billionaires but are we now declaring them ALL evil (and thus open-season!) while we currently work our way through our own sad and western styled Cultural Revolution-Devolution..... to sadly reset our reality.... for less unfortunately (and for the environment apparently too!)

.......and sadly via angry and easily-led people who aren't even wearing a brown or red shirt.... while claiming to 'help more people in the world' but with NO context outside of an easily-led nice-sentiment strangely not further elaborated on (or explored) while a creepy type of self-justified, self-righteousness now so dominates our latest style of justifiably-angered but unfortunate devolved-thinking!

Stuck in the 80's?.......old agreement aren't negated by the new unless you want them to be....(and are perhaps apathetic enough to just accept the continual devolution!)

I think they'll be happy with their six figure settlement.......which they HAD to strangely fight for while we're all our own worst enemy as we apathetically still hope to make our way in the ever narrowing corridor!

Continually coming up with NEW ideas and properties instead strangely avoids these type of cat's-bum fights!

The wonder of copyright......to shaft families or to gimp industries like RED!

It was once about protecting the things that lead to innovation but is now just yet another passive-regressive way to power leverage!

The awfulness of wars can be sadly sometimes be better, things might become resolved rather than the world just continually devolving into a passive-regressive cult dismissing one another out of convenient self-convenience!

Sorry Paramount, Maverick is a sequel to an article you once licensed even if your lawyers might have thought that they'd perfected that dubious but effective Jedi hand wave!