By Netflix’s new film chief Dan Lin took over his role on April 1st and now, just two weeks in, he’s begun seriously shaking things up under his new regime.
According to The New York Times, fifteen people from the creative film executive group are out including two directors and a VP.
The film department itself is now organised by genre rather than budget level, and enormous upfront deals are out the window.
The plan is now for a wider variety of films and a focus on improving the quality of said films. That also means less auteur-driven vehicles showing up on the service.
Hidden within that report is the news that “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Point Break” director Kathryn Bigelow’s “Aurora” movie is no longer in development at the streamer, and in fact Bigelow actually left the project a few months back.
The film, which was to be her first since 2017’s “Detroit,” was to be based on David Koepp’s book about characters coping with the collapse of the social order, set against a catastrophic worldwide power crisis. Koepp was adapting the script himself.
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