Would “Game of Thrones” Have Ended Differently if It Was on the Blockchain?
Remember when season 8 of “Game of Thrones” ended, and all you could think about was how badly you wanted to rewrite the ending? That was when 1.8M fans signed a petition for the producers to change the grand finale, or rather, the grand fiasco that it was. Sadly, HBO responded that there was zero chance that the last season of the legendary series would ever be remade.
Well, what if we told you that with the blockchain, redoing it wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place? The emergence of Web 3.0 technology and crypto is looking to disrupt the stagnating film industry and empower creators, together with film audiences, to participate in the creation of movies through decentralized communities.
Who Pays for the Creation of Movies?
While enjoying popcorn and movies in the cinema, everything seems easy. After the lights go down, in the midst of the film and the action, no one thinks about the experience of its creators in the cut-throat film industry and the hell’s kitchen that most likely went into making the movie.
First of all, and most importantly, finding someone to pay for the movie is never an easy task—maybe it would even be easier to just sell a kidney to fund your next film! Well, the film industry is full of the weirdest stories of how movies get funding.
In 1958, the creators of sci-fi horror movie “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” after multiple unsuccessful attempts to impress the film industry, had to convince the Baptist church to fund their film. The church agreed and generously sponsored a movie, with the condition that cast and crew members had to be baptized.
Robert Rodriguez, director of legendary movie “Desperado,” featuring Antonio Banderas, could only film the first part about Mexican gangster “El Mariachi” (1992) after selling his body into medical testing for new cholesterol treatments. Even one of the most acclaimed British…
