And you want to tie one of our campus into that? Look, I'm sure that may make it look more exciting and all, but i'm not in this quest to get involved in spy thrills or trying to get our studio tied up to one of the Big Spying agencies for the country. I'm fine with us making movies, not trying to bring down the Chinese government.
Now, if that happens because of our movies, then that's another thing all together.
In what way have I suggested that I wanted this, having the CIA operating out of the Hong Kong Campus, as something "more exciting"? Don't put those words in my mouth, because in all honesty, I'd rather not be involving them at all, but given what happened and to keep our people safe, a deal has to be made.
Not to mention, we already
know they want a Favor in the future, it says directly in the Results section, and this is one of the only ways I can think of that has it even remotely work out in our favor, pre-empting whatever it is that they will eventually ask for.
I disagree. We've yet to know if we will get to choose the role or if Clint will be the one to suggest it. More than likely he'll want us to act in a role big enough for us, and to show how Westerns can be good. We don't know it though, and I'm not willing to gamble on that and probably make it so that Batman gets sidetracked, specially since the movie is part of a contract with Columbia.
But
I say we try. Our Distribution has always found a way to succeed in one way or another (wit the exception of some duds here and there) and a Romanian film might just be a good palate cleanser for those who want something a bit different than Empire.
It's the other movies, sitting at an era appropriate combined total of over $110M, that are the concern here.
I'd rather give it more room for success, than anything.
Come one man, that's the option that gave us Arnold!
And the only thing worse than that was our long string of attempts at Stand Up that put us in the same corner of the world as Joe Rogan.
I would think it's because said war is technically in an armistice, but perhaps we could add some more millions into it.
I'd think that too, if it wasn't signed in July 1953, months after Stalin died; we'd be celebrating the start of US involvement in the war, not the Armistice.
To clarify there's no record of Magoose ever saying this. I said this in my How the World sees Bruce report as a faction of the CCP debating abandoning Hong Kong and Macau for fear of Lucasfilms. I never wrote that this was the new goal of the party or Deng Xiaoping and Magoose never confirmed it was going to be the future.
Hong Kong and Macau are intrinsically tied to China's century of humiliation. Them existing outside of China is seen as an insult to China that they need to correct at all costs like Alsace-Lorraine for France before WW1 but ten times worse. Even when China got what it wanted OTL, it's actively trying to turn Hong Kong into an authoritarian state 30 years before it becomes totally part of China. China will not tolerate Lucasfilms, which it sees as a threat to the CCP's existence and thus ordered Bruce to be assassinated, operating in Hong Kong. That is seen to China as Lucasfilms operating in China proper.
It's possible that thanks to the environment here that China may be very willing to give it up, but there's no confirmation yet so we have to assume that they're treating it like OTL.
Because of what happened, we can argue back and forth on this topic but the one you're ignoring is that, because of what happened, an argument can be made that [pretty soon in this timeline, and especially if things don't stabilize for them] the PRC is not the legitimate China, Taiwan is.
In that scenario, it wouldn't go against the spirit of the agreement the Britain and China for the UK to return those cities to Taiwain instead.
Then what's the point of giving the campus to them as a base? If they don't need it as you say, then having the campus be a place of CIA operations does nothing but push us into trouble and more retaliation from the CCP. Besides, if it leaks that we're active partners for the CIA and letting Lucasfilms conduct business there, then there's gonna be a major backlash domestically and abroad for Lucasfilms being seen as part of the G-Men and a large level of distrust towards us, especially in countries historically fucked over by the CIA.
There's also the ultimate fact that I don't think George would approve of this at all. He made Return of the Jedi a Vietnam allegory and he intensely hates authoritarian American governments like Nixon and shadowy security stuff. Half of Revenge of the Sith and the Clone Wars is basically a warning against the Patriot Act and the War on Terror. It's completely OOC for George to just let one of his major company facilities be used by the CIA and he would veto us, likely joined by Marcia and Mike.
As I said previously, its me trying to get ahead of a shitty situation by not only having Bruce making a Very Loud Statement by putting a Campus there but also getting ahead of the Favor the CIA'll ask of us.
That's just Magoose not having updated the O'Reilly lobbying, it's not proof of the Foundation's lack of national infrastructure. It's along the same lines of the Gopher action being there for several years after Bruce became a big time filmmaker and studio owner. We've seen multiple times in the updates that the O'Reilly Foundation operates nationally and gives aid to veterans in every state. There's no need to dump money to get the Foundation what they are already doing.
Look, you can say what you want about that, but the fact of the matter is, best I can find? Neither official statement, update or even Omake reward supports this.
Empire Strikes Back was released on May 21st. It's been more than two months and even with it being the greatest movie ever, it's been long enough for other movies to successfully release and make a profit. It's not like Avatar or Avengers: Endgame shutdown literally any other movie from being released for the next three months. It's still summer and it's a Lucasfilms distribution so Star Wars fans will want to see it, and the Western world will want to see Romanian cinema thanks to Romanian fevor from the war.
In what world is giving a film room to breathe a bad thing, especially since we want the film to get a shit ton of exposure?
I highly doubt that will be the case since Bruce has given more money to charity than most millionaires alive. I might add a little more, but I was hoping to save so we could provide support for the recently immigrated Cubans once the Boatlift officially ends. Plus, we're running close to running out of our liquid savings from the start of the year and we're still operating under the Carter tax code so that's 70% of our income.
I'm just saying, we got a good chunk of the Republican Far-right and Kissinger not being our biggest fans.
Also, why are we doing this for the 30th Anniversary for the start of the war, and not the end of it?
[EDIT: Sorry for the late response, been typing this on my phone.]
