Netflix’s 200,000 fewer subscribers are starting to cause mayhem. The animation department of Los Gatos is hit hard, both in its workforce and in future projects. The sequel Bright is also abandoned.
The historic decline in the number of subscribers on Netflix is already starting to do damage internally. According to The Wrap, it is in particular the animation department that is in the line of sight. The creative director in charge of the development of the original animation, Phil Rynda, was thus dismissed at the beginning of the week, as well as several members of his teams.
Several projects in this sector have simply been cancelled, including an adaptation of Two Rascals by Roald Dahl, a serial porting of the comic strip bone by Jeff Smith, as well as a project called Toil and Trouble, by Lauren Faust. always according to The Wrappopular series – without further details – would also be subject to non-renewal.
Following Bright won’t happen on Netflix
Animation is not the only department concerned, since the continuation of Bright, with Will Smith and Joel Edgerton, is also going down the drain. According to Lucas Shaw, of Bloomberg, this cancellation would not be linked to the slap of Will Smith at the Oscars. From there to linking it to the economic setbacks of Netflix, there is only one step.
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Netflix has also abandoned plans to make a sequel to Bright, but that is unrelated to the incident.@chrispalmerihttps://t.co/rj5T5RNc3y
—Lucas Shaw (@Lucas_Shaw) April 21, 2022
Time will tell if other major projects will be abandoned by Reed Hastings’ service because of its poor results. Remember that even before these announcements, he did not hesitate to cut the wings of projects in progress, even with correct figures. The fans of dark-crystal and Archives 81 still remember it.