'Silk' series being retooled for 'male-skewing' audience

[queenursula]

The writers room for the ‘SILK’ series has been scrapped except for showrunner Angela Kang.

The show will have a creative overhaul & refocused to a more male-skewing audience.

(Source: https://t.co/c8mPZLFNRk) pic.twitter.com/pzBJ3T1dr2
- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 17, 2024

It's being reported that Silk: Spider Society has let go of

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[ghastly]

I already had... no real interest but now it's negative interest so there's that.

[thereinventions]

Male-gaze? Groundbreaking.

is bitten by the same spider that bit Peter Parker

I want an origin story in this. Where the fuck the spider came from? What is its purpose?

[queenursula]

lol there was a whole controversial storyline about whether or not the spider was destined to bite Peter and was an agent of some cosmic deity called the Great Weaver.

[sandstorm]

imagining some cosmic entity going "hey fuck with that kid in particular"

[therearewords]

🕷️

[manu19]

From a business perspective I honestly start to somewhat get it (still sucks of course!) but most female led things seem to flop. Is it a lack of female audience support or men simply not getting what women actually want? Idk

Charlie’s Angel Reboot, female Ghost Busters and some other recent franchises I can’t think of right now come to mind

Edit: often times I think it’s just a director / studio / writers flop over doing it with the women empowerment like „I am a strong independent woman and I am going to show it to these men!“ when in my opinion it should be more like „eh I’ll just do good at xy and do what I like“. Does that make sense?

Edit 2: missed the male gaze part gross. I thought they were recasting it with a dude in the lead (not that this is much better!)

[zhenyaodin2]

Honestly, I think it's because most female led things are in fact reboots. Male executives absolutely refuse to put money into original content for women, and rarely do women actually get to fully be in charge of our products. Even if the showrunner is a woman, the executives she has to answer to are men, and those men think the whole world is about men. Within this system, it's almost impossible to make women's content without it being tainted by the worlds most out to lunch, self important, ass backwards old crusty white executives who have absolutely NO idea how to make a product themselves and are absolutely incapable of understanding that womens products need to be about women, and not about women whose lives in one way or another revolve around men. All they know how to do is read an algorithm and dismiss any opinion outside of that. Which is part of why its exhausting that they think actors and writers can be replaced by AI. No, it's the executives who could easily be replaced with AI

[ewanspotter]

But saying “most female led things seem to flop” is the problem, because it’s not true. The 2016 Ghostbusters made more money than the 2021 version - only one is considered a “flop” and why is that? There are also way less female-lead films out there, but when they don’t do box office gold they become the standard for why “women” films don’t sell, even though there are five male films that did just as bad in the same year, with no flack.

[moddchicc]

I was surprised Madame Web was directed by a woman because the knee high socks and schoolgirl mini-skirt 'nerdy' Sydney Sweeney was in for the first half of the movie felt something a middle aged male director would have come up with for a B-movie/exploitation flick.

[notoriousreign]

They’re gonna rename it… Tangled