Lulu Garcia Navarro

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So good to see you again.

Yeah, you too.

So I went back after our interview and I rewatched The Dark Knight after we talked because it was on my mind since we spoke a lot about you taking on this sort of big budget movie.

Mm-hmm.

And I guess that movie had to have been the biggest budget film you were ever a part of.

I mean, it was probably like such a huge event.

And I was kind of wondering what that experience taught you about how to harness all those resources from inside the studio system.

I guess I am curious about your own experience where that wasn't what happened to you.

Yeah.

All right.

So you are making this big budget movie at a moment when the industry is really struggling and attention spans are hard to capture.

Studios are consolidating.

And I read two articles that really touched.

chilled me.

One was about how film school students can't even focus enough to know the ending of a two-hour film.

And these are film school students.

And then I saw Matt Damon recently told Joe Rogan that Netflix wants its filmmakers to restate the plot of the movie four times for people who are double-screening.

And to double screening or like looking on their phone while watching the thing.