When you choose human-created badness over anything AI-made.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@mwl Someone is going to option this, organize a $200M budget for the re-make, get it a worldwide general release, and go down in flames when the entire universe turns round in outrage and says "you did WHAT?!?"

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@cstross

I truly hope so.

meanwhile, the original cast and crew will be fully occupied making HAMSTER ASSASSIN.

[dashdsrdash@tilde.zone]

@mwl @cstross

Is it about a hamster who is an assassin or an assassin who mostly kills hamsters?

Both of those could find audiences, but I'd rather not be in the same theater or city as people who want to watch the second.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@dashdsrdash @cstross

While I share your bias, a competent storyteller could make either work.

[malin@dice.camp]

@mwl this doesn't look like Photoshop.

[mshdk@mastodon.social]

@dashdsrdash @mwl @cstross maybe Perry is a hamster instead of a platypus!

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@mwl @dashdsrdash Let's go really meta and make it a film about an assassin who kills people who create crush fetish porn about hamsters. The detective on his/her t(r)ail is an animated Mongolian gerbil.

[mwl@io.mwl.io]

@malin dammit, might not be

[paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cstross @mwl @dashdsrdash

I'd watch that movie.

Heck, open a Patreon or a GoFundMe or something like that and I would FINANCE that movie!

[sam@chven.us]

half man/half wolf/half shark. It's manwolfshark!

or Land Shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NS2H55dxI

[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@mwl
This looks AWESOME! Looks up wth Fandango is...

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@dashdsrdash @mwl @cstross well obviously there's both:

HAMSTER ASSASSIN I: EVIL BREWING is about the guy who kills hamsters, and
HAMSTER ASSASSIN II: THE RECKONING is the story of the hamster out for revenge against the hamster killer.