Here Comes Thanos

Fresh off the end of the Marvel Universe and it’s continued slide into ignominy, comes this news about Josh Brolin’s future career plans.

Probably the last guy in Hollywood that looks like an old school “man’s man.”

From the trades:

Amazon Studios has announced that Thanos himself Josh Brolin is making the leap to television and will star in the new mystery drama series Outer Range. Created by playwright Brian Watkins, Brolin will executive produce the series which hails from Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The series will follow Brolin’s character Royal Abbot, a Wyoming Rancher fighting for his family and way of life who must “grapple with the unknown” after making a discovery of an unfathomable mystery on his land. What that “unfathomable mystery” is unclear but the vagueness of the logline seems to imply something unexpected.

This reads like Cowboys and Aliens. Like really. All that’s missing is Daniel Craig.

Brad Pitt’s Getting Paid

Fresh off his stupid speechifying at the Oscars, we’re stunned that Pitt can count the cash, but apparently, that’s all he needs to count after signing a deal with Amazon earlier this year.

The pool boy made good.

From the trades, yet again:

Amazon has struck an exclusive overall television deal with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.
This marks the first-ever exclusive TV agreement for Plan B, which met with a number of studios and streamers before setting up TV home at Amazon Studios.
At Amazon, Plan B already is producing Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.
Plan B is also working with Amazon on Paper Girls, a drama based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic novel.

A lot of projects in Pitt’s pipeline.

What Are We to Make of All of This?

It looks like the man who we wouldn’t hire to clean our pools has made good. First with lassoing Amazon to his greasy hair and rakish good looks, but second by lassoing all that original talent and stories.

No more Cable for you sir.

This is a really good deal for Amazon as well because they get to load their platform with original content very quietly even as their streaming competitors clawback their own content to be featured on the slew of new platforms launching this year.