Jason Bateman

You cooled it up, and you hipped it up, and it became a whole different lane in Marvel.

It became a different thing, yeah.

So tell us what your day is like.

What time do you get up typically in the morning, truthfully?

You obviously love the creative process so much because you're so deeply involved in it and doing so much of it.

What was it like when you got that call to have one of the most prestigious elite jobs you could ever imagine?

partly running one the one of the biggest studios in the history of the so like that's an executive job and for the listener like it's it's wildly different to to be the people that push the button that make it all happen versus the people that are on the set that actually make it um and and so you're doing both how did that how how did that land for you

It's crazy, meaning that it hasn't happened yet.

Because you would want a creative person to be the oversight person of the creative process.

Right, right, right.

So you thought with this opportunity maybe would come not a sea change in what the executive ranks would look like, but at least you would be able to influence this studio in a direction that made a little bit more sense?

But that presupposes that you're able to have a certain amount of authority and influence.

What kind of, to the extent you're comfortable sharing, were you given assurances that made you think, well, there's a possibility I could actually do this?

Yeah, he seems very deferential to the creatives.

Hopefully, there's a benefit from the...

that entry-level part of the process that may become automated, hopefully that will potentially save enough money for the industry that it'll then be reinvested into the industry and help the financial health of the industry get stood up again.

Because right now there's a bit of a constraint going on in our industry, right?

There's a lack of work, there's a lack of product.

Those studios are making less films because it's becoming more and more expensive to sell them and make them.

Hopefully this will allow that financial help to come back to the industry and then put all these people back to work again, maybe in some other job, but maybe there'll be more product being made.