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Hey on point 2 towards the end I think you might've typo's your good reads email id. If you haven't sorry pls ignore this.

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Nov 10, 2023Liked by Joseph Matheny

It will be my honor to review Statio. It's a great story. I was honored to being one of Statio Beta Testers and again I am honored to write your reviews to both help sell your stylish art. And for you to be able to use mine, and I'm sure others of the Tribe quotes for the larger version.

Rob Conn

Thank you for opening the doors and sharing the alternate places told by your imagination.

RC3

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Nov 10, 2023Liked by Joseph Matheny

Hi Joseph, I am glad you decided not to go the Hollywood route for your works. For Myself and I am sure the rest of the Tribe are tired of how many other great stories have been crafted into movies & series, especially streaming. i.e... NETFLIX: Archive81, Travelers, OA as good examples of story to screen that were loved my most especially us "Weirdos :)" only to be cancelled without Rhyme or Reason. And since Netflix over last couple years makes it nearly impossible to change platforms, it would send your works to obscurity.

Plus with Hollywood's big studios putting profit over evertthing. They would buy the rights of your works and make 100 remakes that would increasing have little to do with the beauty you created and just another multiverse or FX nightmare. And if they could merchandise the crap out of it, you know they will.

Long are the days of Michael Crichton's Great Movie Adaptions, to endless clone Dinosaur movies. If I want silly remakes, Sharknado is waiting hehe.

Growing up I fell in Love with Crichton's books and movie adaptions. Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Timeline. Including a few great stories written for the screen Coma, Looker, Runaway & Westworld, and after his passing hoping the studios he sold the movie rights to would continue with others. These early works did what great scifi thrillers did, ask questions, project future possibilities, and tell stories of living in these alternate worlds.

BUT What do we get now, 100 Jurassic Park sequels, scripts written like they write porn in a notebook, and filled with endless action and FX scenes. All to make studio owners giant profits.

I applaud your desire to go the Indie route. It has so much more promise. When films have smaller budgets, effects budgets are limited which allows Storyteller and Cinematographers to concentrate on actually transporting us into a great work of literary art. Instead of losing us in endless FX.

Movies franchises like the Phantasm, Evil Dead, and many John Carpenter's would of never gotten anywhere if they all started today with big studios.

Ong's Hat & The Liminal Cycle allowed us to tap into great mysteries, puzzles and really great storytelling, created in worlds you built with passion and perhaps even connections to other worlds and the great unknown.

And like your great stories & world building, if you go the Indie route you have more room for experimental filmmaking. Which is how people should experience your stories, in how you envision the stories to exist.

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I'll check it. Thanks.

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Appreciate it.

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Thanks Rob. I appreciate it.

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