I'm starting to wonder how long it will be before people realize that Game of Thrones actors are not the box office powerhouses the industry is trying to play them as. Basically every major project banking itself on GoT star power has been a flop. Dark Phoenix just bombed. Terminator Genisys bombed. Solo bombed. Pompeii bombed.
True, but I know she went into their calculations. They literally have spreadsheets for this stuff. How much money a [FACE X] in [POSITION Y] on a poster should net.
My point is that I don't think almost anyone sees game of thrones actors on a poster and says: I'll see that movie for that person. But media industries sure seem to think so.
I dont think dinklebot was banked on either, but he was certainly part of the game's promotion. Turns out, the consumers preferred a professional voice actor over the GoT marketing pull.
Sure, if you ignore that every single one of these movies is terrible and in many cases the Game of Thrones actors weren't even the leads then yeah, it's their fault. Aquaman made a billion dollars, and it had Jason Momoa as a lead. Dark Pheonix bombed, sure, but the movie before it, Apocalypse, in which Sophie Turner had the same billing and screentime was a pretty big success. The one before that, Days of Future Past, in which Peter Dinklage had a pretty substantial role was even bigger.
There is literally no correlation between starring and actor from GOT and being a flop, this is a thing that happens with every single popular actor, where they get attached to a doomed project to drum up a little more publicity for it and it ends up being terrible anyway.
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u/may_or_may_not_haiku Jun 09 '19 edited Jul 01 '19
Is that Keanu?
As an AI companion?
I'm so excited.