Bryan Cranston’s The Studio Character Is A Deep Cut For Movie Nerds – SlashFilm

“The Studio,” Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s latest sequence, is a hilarious satire of Hollywood and a love letter to its wealthy historical past. When Rogen’s character — a studio chief named Matt Remick — visits work on daily basis, he overhears a tour information speak about how the lot is a temple of film magic. It is a sentiment he needs to consider in, but he is disillusioned with the system and appears like his office is extra like a tomb. Certainly, Matt hates his studio’s insistence on creating billion-greenback franchises about Kool Assist characters on the expense of real artwork, though he nonetheless has to reply to at least one man: Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston).

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Griffin is a billionaire studio overlord who’s solely motivated by revenue, a lot in order that he is glad to bury a swansong Martin Scorsese venture in regards to the Jonestown cult. In any case, an auteur-pushed film about individuals “consuming the Kool Assist” and taking their very own lives would possibly intervene with the studio’s lofty ambitions to create a household blockbuster about Kool Assist Man and his buddies, and that is not occurring.

That mentioned, Griffin is an fascinating character who encapsulates what “The Studio” is all about at its core. He very a lot represents the up to date, commercially obsessed Hollywood system the present pokes enjoyable at. Nonetheless, his identify is an homage to the status studio cinema that Rogen’s character longs for Tinsel City to return to — and Robert Altman followers will get the reference.

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Director Robert Altman and screenwriter Michael Tolkin’s “The Participant” is without doubt one of the greatest films about making films. Just like “The Studio,” it is a satire that highlights the extra irritating sides of Hollywood, however nonetheless boasts loads of love and affection for the enterprise when it is at its greatest. What’s extra, the movie contains a Hollywood government named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins).

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Bryan Cranston’s character in “The Studio” is a transparent nod to Altman’s traditional movie, however it is not the one one. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s sequence additionally adopts the continual shot method at instances, impressed by the opening scene in Altman’s satire. Throughout a dialog with IndieWire, Rogen defined that “The Participant” — and that one shot particularly — impressed their very own present:

“In the event you’re making one thing about Hollywood, to do one thing technically tough asserts your place as somebody who has any proper to be talking about these things. ‘The Participant’ does that. He is doing one of many hardest issues you are able to do, and now he is gonna go make enjoyable of flicks for the following two hours. However he is clearly doing it from the place of somebody who understands each intricacy and problem of filmmaking.”

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“The Studio” is as technically spectacular as it’s hilarious, making it the perfect homage to Altman’s movie. Moreover, it appears that evidently Rogen and Goldberg share a number of the late filmmaker’s frustrations in regards to the battle between artwork and commerce within the film biz.

New episodes of “The Studio” premiere Wednesdays on Apple TV+.