Zack Snyder was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and, I have to admit, the interview was fairly entertaining. Snyder has already sparked fanboy backlash by telling Rogan that Batman is “irrelevant” if he can’t kill.
However, what I found most interesting is that the 58-year-old filmmaker, who was originally a Warner Bros man, and much like David Fincher, is now all about Netflix. It started with his 2021 film “Army of the Dead” and reached its apex with his two “Rebel Moon” films, which critics and audiences hated.
During the two-hour chat with Rogan, Snyder said he had no regrets about hopping onboard the Netflix train, and deduced, with his own dubious math, that “Rebel Moon” was probably seen by more people than Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” which made $1.4 billion worldwide at the box-office.
You think about Netflix, for instance, where you push a button […] ‘Rebel Moon,’ right? Say right now it’s almost at 90 million views, right? 80 or 90 million accounts turned it on, give or take. They assume two viewers per screening, right? That’s the kind of math. So you think if that movie was in the theater as a distribution model, that’s like 160,000,000 people supposedly watching based on that math. 160,000,000 people at $10 a ticket would be…what is that math? I don’t know. 160,000,000 times ten. That’s 1.6 billion. So more people probably saw ‘Rebel Moon’ than saw ‘Barbie’ in the theater, right?
Lol.