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Jon M. Chu

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first: 2024-11-18
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“My parents said to me, You can do anything, John, because we have a restaurant, you'll never go hungry. We have a house, you'll never go homeless. So any decision you make, do it fearlessly, and you have the biggest, you think you don't have any advantage because you don't know people in Hollywood, you have the biggest advantage. And it really is true. It's really is true.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love process and I love starting with the idea, working with people, figuring it out and trusting that where we're going, we're going to build the thing that we need and love, that it's precious to us and it will be precious to others. And so that's what I focus on. It's maybe why I have so much in development because I'm like, I don't know. It could be this. It could be this. I'm going to work with these amazing people like Pasig and Paul who are amazing music writers and Andrew Lloyd Weber. And we'll see what feels the right moment and what I'm supposed to be doing at that time.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now I really appreciate you saying that about Steve because I feel that about him. I feel him whispering, make it, make it, figure out what's next and make it. And also, you don't have to plan so far ahead either. Like, listen. I always say we can plan as much as we want in this movie. But at some point, the movie starts to speak back at us. And you better be listening because when you hear it, then you can lean into those things. And I am not a destination person. There's not one movie that I dream of making, and that's it. Maybe Wicked was a piece of that, but it wasn't like once I make that, I'm done.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The storyteller, as someone who embraces these mediums and owns these mediums and is able to put in the dreams and hopes and the optimism of what we, I think all want this world to stand for, the great experiment to still live. I think that's where we have to flood the gates on. It may not be movies. It may just be the other things. But we have to know that that's what we're doing, be conscious that we are storytellers and all these mediums. And I believe that the human spirit will always live through those things. But we have to be clever.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like the wizard, and we need those visionaries. Now, I'm selling a movie right now, so of course it's like, oh yeah, movies, movies, movies. But the reality is between you and me and your listeners, it's like, I don't know where movies are going to go, but the number one thing that I always learned was I'm a storyteller. And that storytelling can be done in sound. It can be done in a design of a font. It can be done in words. It can be done in many different things, in podcasts. And I think that...”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, Yes and no on all those things. I think that the storyteller has a role, 100%. We've always had it. It is what people need leadership. People need something to head toward. They need a horizon line. It's why people go to strong men. It's because when things are not known, they go to the person that's taking the lead and we need visionaries.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That feels both scary and nobody wants to do this. Even in our movie, you know, we have this song, What Is This Feeling? And it's not loathing. We always decided it's not loathing. It is you resist the person that's going to change the rest of your life because nobody wants to change. And I think we have to get ready for the uncomfortable fight and the uncomfortable and the yelling at each other. We are all roommates all of a sudden. Technology has made us roommates. And we're like, you live here? Yeah, I live here. Put the dishes away. No, that's what I leave dishes there. And I think we're growing up in a way that now we have to. Look at our roommate in the eye and figure out how the fuck we're going to live with each other.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That because it was just underneath the surface this whole time and seeing this election, you realize, oh, yeah, it's all underneath the surface, no matter what we've tried to paint over. It's just underneath there. And in order to confront it, we actually have to deal with the ugly parts. Right.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I didn't think that would exist in my world until it did during COVID. It was shocking. And in a weird way, I remember my sister calling me and she was like, do you remember when we were walking across the street from the restaurant and that car pulled over and told us to go back to our country? And it was just you and me and we were like really young. We're going to the tower records. And I was like, no. And she kept describing it. And suddenly I was like, oh, yeah, I remember. And it hit me that there were all these moments that actually those things were happening all along, that I just sort of ignored. And yeah, I'm worried that.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel very, and having kids now feel very defensive that these ideas Are still on the table, that we do not have to go into fear mode. In order to get something done. And I think that this movie hits on that.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's pretty clear. The issue is that didn't exactly happen when we were making this movie or when it was written. Wicked was made in 2002 where we're coming out of 9-11 and we're about to go into war. It's America in transition. Wizard of Oz came out of when America was in transition. Even the movie was made at a time where everything was in transition. And I think Elf Frank Baum always wanted to make the American fairy tale with American parts, which I think he was saying it was like optimism, self-reliance, and resilience. And so for me, the real timelessness of it is that this is something that as a process that we go through and we get choices which road are we going to take? Do we rise or do we go along with it? Do we keep walking on that road? We always rise. But we need artists and we need people to then remind us of who we are. And I think, and because I grew up in this American fairy tale,”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's all of us. First of all, an old man gaslighting a whole nation that this woman is wicked because she's confronting him about alienating a whole group of people in the society”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No computer could create the moments that happened, her wink at her when she ties the thing. These are all things that happen in the moment, and that's what we mine in the movie, our editor Myron Kirsten, is very good at mining the things that you could not have thought of in your bedroom. You could not have thought of in a meeting. That is actually the power of movies. And those things will always be sacred. And I don't know how to even. Measure that”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In ideation, you know, when we're designing something, it takes me two months with artists, a group of artists to figure out kind of the zone that we're going in, then another two months to hone in on that zone. I think we'll get those two months out of the system. And I'll just be like, here's a hundred different things. Here are the five that I really like. Let's start here and let's use these artists to start here. I will say that when I'm working with Cynthia and Ari, for instance, you cannot predict the things that they do in this movie. Even if you had all the information of what they've done in the past.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No matter how many times we repeat that, people don't fully get that. So creativity is like one little rock in that, and we'll figure it out. And we put value on what we want, audience ultimately puts value on what we think is valuable.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I don't know exactly where it goes. I do know it's really important for us to play with it and understand it because if we don't, we are the only ones who know what to protect or not to protect in our. In our creative process. And someone else is going to determine that, like they did last time, if we don't aren't fully immersed in this. So we can't be scared of it. And this is happening at a rate that is way faster than anything we've ever seen. And we've watched you've seen a lot of technology. You know this is happening. This is the greatest, everything was built. For this moment, the internet, the computers, the flat screen, all that stuff goes away because it was only made for these. Kinetic connections that are happening right now”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm learning every day about AI. And this is just for creativity. Like, of course, AI in all other walks of life are much bigger issues and bigger things that it's going to be doing. But in just our business alone, it's extremely powerful. I think it's a new democratization of how you express yourself. And just like digital video editing or having programs like in the 3D Studio Max or things like that, it... A kid in their bedroom like me would be creating stuff, and that will be a medium of something. There's no doubt that that is here. I think when we think about how to tweak that and we don't know the answers of how you're going to tweak that to make it what we are actually thinking is really hard.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do see that. I mean, listen, being in person, nothing quite beats that yet, but I could see us eventually if we could see the same things in the same room. I look at monitors, physical monitors now, and I'm like, oh, that's going to go away. That's going to.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Changed the game for me because I put it on and I wasn't on a computer with my editor over somewhere else, which feels very limiting. I don't get interactive with it. My blood's not pumping. But with the Vision Pro, I could make the screen as big as the room. Right. And I could walk around and pace the way I do in the edit room. I could lay on the couch the way I do in the edit room. And then I could bring it closer. We were doing visual effects on it. And so I could give notes and use my finger to like mark things. And this is people in the Bay Area. This is people in London. This is people in Canada. And 40 people are on this and I'm on my couch and I can look at it what it looks like 20 feet wide and what it would look like on an iPad. And I love that.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I did it when I was remote. Yeah, when I wasn't going in, because usually if I go remote, we made a whole little system at the house because I have all these kids now. And we built this whole system. But once I got the Vision Pro, I found it.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you. So those are things that are hard, but that's what I'm made for. I've made a decision that if you're going to be on the front lines, you have to be able to take the bullets and you have to be able to keep going. If you can't, then what are you doing? What are you doing here?”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, in crazy appreciations with the South Asians, it's hard because those are, I think, I didn't know the argument was like, do you have more South Asians in the scenes? Yes, I would have, I didn't know Singapore as much as I did eventually when I went in there, and I would have had a lot more different people and cultures that were in some of those scenes. And I would have treated some of the characters in there a little differently, give them a little more human side to him. The fact is the book itself doesn't have those characters. So it's hard to just create characters out of nowhere. So there were things that I'm much more hyper aware of that I ask a lot more questions because sometimes I think it's these blind spots that you just are learning at the same time. And what I really learned was you got to talk to everybody, but also like, you got to keep going. Like if you're on the front lines of this stuff, there are things that are happening all the time that you're learning, oh, you call them Latinx or not Latinx. Like that debate was happening to this day. And I don't still know what to say. And being aware of it. But being aware of it is really important in hearing the conversation.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I think that was the intent with Wicked that if you're retelling a timeless story, a story that feels like it should have been there for all these years in Hollywood, then it should feel like all these iconic characters are just, it's just normalized that the kids in the school are all sorts of people and shapes and sizes, and the design is made for that, that accessibility is just a part of a fantasy world. We might be the first fantasy movie where we have accessibility ramps and stuff for characters that exist there. And it's not really a big part of the story. It's just these people who live there. And I'm really proud that we do that because that takes more thought and design. It takes breaking out of the mold of thinking and in casting. Yeah, she can be. And you're not compromising anything. I think that's the main thing is not some exercise to compromise anything. This is the way the world looks now.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not something we, I mean, we didn't plan it at first. No, that's for sure. It was only when we saw it and started to get.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they worked out how she finds her space, her emotional space. And what they found is it's just these little movements and it's not a defiant like, this is who I am. And screw you. It was like instead of the control that she's being asked to have over her emotions, she surrenders to her own powers. And she just barely is there. And she, and the fact that it's silent, like I didn't think that could survive in this movie, in a movie like this, in the middle of a musical number. And the way Cynthia and Ari played this, these two women finding each other in this humiliation and being totally vulnerable and then Glinda has to walk in and strip herself of all the things that she holds dear and they're both there not knowing what to do next and when their hands touch she offers her hand out and they touch to me that was the most beautiful it's like they're gonna she's gonna teach her and they're gonna do this together and I did not think that the”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in the show, it is emotional by the end, but it's sort of a silly dance that she does. She does like a witch dance because that's the conceit of the show. And in our movie, that just doesn't work. Even Cynthia's like, I'm not a joke. I'm not going to come in there. And when she felt the humiliation, I sent her and Christopher Scott, our amazing choreographer.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow, that's great. That's a good question. That's a really good question. That ended up. The exact opposite and maybe even better. I don't know if it got to the exact opposite. There are areas that I didn't know where we were going to end up and how deep it could go. There's a scene in the Ozdust ballroom where Alphabet comes in and she's wearing a hat that Glinda told her was cool.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's on purpose make this a beautiful experience. We have heard too many stories, and when you get too devas together, like what happens, and that has been something that we all have trusted.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we never did a chemistry read between the two of them. We did chemistry with them with other people. And we never paired them because I never thought they would pair. But when I realized that she was Galinda and she was alphabetic, like, no question. Then we sort of rolled the dice because we knew that they both shared this very rare power, their voice, this ability to do something that physically people can't do and spiritually they can't do. So they shared that, but they're very different people in how they see the world. That's right. And when they came together, they actually, I think, had a meeting together and said,”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, yes. But we had to make it feel like this was the end of a movie. So if you don't know anything about Wicked, I think you feel that's what was our intent, to feel emotionally satisfied that we were waiting for. And there's even her falling out the window, which isn't in the show. And that falling out the window is she has to earn her flight so that when she comes down, she has to figure out why she's flying and she sees her younger self and she grabs the broomstick and she goes up. So when she says it's me, she really means it's me. It's just taking the words that we've heard over and over again and giving them real purpose and witnessing and living with that purpose so that the words become even stronger and we see it in new ways.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, she couldn't even do it without, I had it as backup options. I think, hey, you know, we're going to be throwing wind at you. Like if you want to just lip sync to it, she's like, I can't. I can't. So we were spitting her around. She had to train for a year to learn how to do these stunts on her own. And that's with visual effects. That's with costumes because her cape plays a big role in this. And there's a huge emotional core to this because you have to be as intimate as when she says, come with me. And Glinda's looking at her. And without words is saying, I can't. And there's silence in this. So as big as the number gets, we had to be very focused on what story we telling. And that intimate story of the separation of these two. And because the end of the movie, it has to be emotionally satisfying. It has to be the thing that had been waiting.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, define gravity was probably the hardest thing I've ever shot in my life because it required all departments. It required our sets when we're building it. We had like three different sections. The actual bottom with the staircase spinning up. We had the top, and then we had to have another top for the outside because we needed room for the rigging because she was actually going to be flown around and singing live. So you can't do this if you don't have Cynthia Rivo. Right.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can still do this. Hands have touched this and painted all the walls in the dorm room are painted, hand painted. It's pretty incredible. The costumes, the hair and makeup Getting 300 munchkins in hair and makeup in the morning, and they're arriving at 2 a.m. And they're there and I get there at 6 and you only have a portion of them ready. And each of them have to be different. They can't be the same. It was an enormous task by a lot of people. This was going to space.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You just wouldn't shoot the, you wouldn't go to the moon in this. This is a very specific thing. So I love reminding people to the golden era of Hollywood of Ben Hurr or Lawrence Arabia.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And don't get me wrong, VFX is in this movie. We have flying monkeys. We have animated animals. But the VFX people would tell us build as much as you can. We work with ILM and FrameStore. If you build as much, then we can only make it better. And so that was really fun to just like throw down in a way when we talked to Universal, we knew we were doing a moonshot. We were like, we need to define why the movie musical is necessary now and why you can only do this in this medium. They would not spend this money in a Netflix thing. You couldn't not get the scope of the Netflix thing. And this is, again, nothing against the Netflix. I love Netflix.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a little bus beat. Berkeley, there's even 80s John Houston as you roll into the school, like they're rolling into the parking lot, even ET at the end with the drums. So there are all these little pieces because we are dissecting what the American story is and what it means to us. So in this scene, we have all these dancers and that spinning wheel, I mean, the insurance companies did not want this spinning wheel. And it took a lot of engineering to build it. And not just the tech of it, but also to build it into a An actual set, we built set 17 stages. We built different sets on. We built Emerald City. We built Munchkin Land. We built a 6”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sort of takes from like 2001 or from a royal wedding or things like that. We tried to take images of American cinema, not just American musicals, but American cinema and put them in this movie.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it's called Dancing Through Life. It's Fiero the Prince, the Rebel Prince who comes into the school, and he's sort of showing the other students who follow all the rules and follow the story of the wizard and Shiz University that breaking the rules is kind of funny, sort of loosens them up. This is the beginning of what I call the sort of awakening up of Oz. is this place that has the wizard has told the story that you don't have to live in fear you don't have to confront each other about anything happiness is the number one thing follow this yelpic road and there's a wizard that will give you your heart's desire and then this is the first sort of he comes in here and we have the spinning wheel this giant spinning wheel which”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's really hard to go back. You realize the power of cinema when that bet pays off and right in front of your eyes, it never goes away. Like, okay, this is where this is the power of movies. So within the heights, we try to do the same. And in wicked, even more so. This is sort of the pinnacle of that. I thought those three movies as my new sort of view, as my new view trilogy, Crazy Rich Asians in the heights, it's new view of classic stories that sweep you away to other lands but bring you home. And again, redefining what beauty is, what family looks like, what a hero is, what a villain is, and actually sort of kicks the tire on the American story, the Americana thing that my parents grew me up on, which was very helpful. But now for a new generation that now that I have kids.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, when I first started in the business, I was doing dance movies and I was raised in two worlds. I was raised in Silicon Valley and came to Hollywood and grew up in Hollywood. So I feel like I have a very good compass of which parts of each world work for what I do. So I'm always, I will never bet against technology. I mean, technology, when it's coming, there's nothing you can stop. I've seen it. I've witnessed it and there's beautiful things that can come from it. And I think in my first seven movies that I made, I was sort of, I was really young learning how to make movies with a studio, with a giant company. These weren't independent movies. There were studio movies with franchises and fan bases. After I did crazy Rich Asians, which was the one that I the first time right before that, I figured out that I think I did my 10,000 hours and I was like, oh, I belong here. So I want to do something that makes me really scared. So I did crazy rejoicings. And when you witness something like crazy radiation, how's that can change a landscape and change a group of actors and change how people see lead actors?”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not someone who's outside of the storytelling business, and especially something like Wicked, where it's never, it's an IP that's never been shot on stage or in movies or in animated. Those are the things I'm drawn to because I knew that we could make impact with this thing and we can make impact at a time that it needed to be told.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, exactly, exactly. And those deals are interesting because they can go on Pico and they can sell it to do it to Netflix and all these places. I think that's the way we're going. But I think people like Donna Langley understand that and work. I've known Donna Langley for 20 years. So she can speak to me in those terms and not some other”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that philosophy won in the end. I'm not sure, but there was a sense of like, okay, that actually could exist instead of the way it was six months ago where it was like, oh no, theatrical is totally out.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, deal making's all different now. Now you got to figure out is this streaming? Is this not? And you always have to know that there is a possibility whether you think it's theatrical or not, they could flip the switch on you. Now we have like trauma against this thing. And some people don't want to deal with that part of those deals. And so they just take a little bit longer. But places like Universal, who Comcast in that company has a true investment in theatrical entertainment, I think the people who held on to this idea that you could trickle down the value of property by presenting the story in movies and continue like.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I never met Jason Kyler. I met him once at our premiere, and he's a smart guy. I get him. I get him. I understand. I just think that the way they do it is different. When you're working with artists, we're pouring our lives into these things. And we understand we're not idiots. We understand where we're at. And that really hurt me. And that really made it see like, oh, they're not in charge anymore. The people that I trust aren't in charge. There's somebody above them that is driving this. Right.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Decision making in terms of they couldn't be bespoke to everybody, but that doesn't take away How that takes away your trust for a studio that you've really fought for and worked with.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There was part of my brain that understood this. Like, if had we had a conversation and they explained this, me of all people understand the situation we're at, we have a movie, this could be another year. Will this movie be relevant in a year? That's a valid question, but they didn't ask us. They just did it. And I also understand that.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I found out 15 minutes before the world found out, we had been in very close contact with Warren Brothers this whole time of making the movie because we got shut down during COVID. We were in their final mix of it, which means we only had like two months before the movie was coming out. And so we all got together with Lynn Manwoman Miranda and the executives and we decided we were going to hold and wait for a theatrical release until this thing is over. So when I got the call out of nowhere saying, hey, we just want to let you know it's sort of over our heads, but they're doing this thing releasing all movies on streaming.”
2024-11-18 · On with Kara Swisher · Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good. I don't think it's bad. And with a streaming service, that's just not your business. And so I think it's still the same. I just think the quality of all these things are getting better just in their own islands of how you consume entertainment”
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“And I see it because I see it in the movie theater. When we show wicked, I see it when everyone's cheering at the end and they're standing up. Like that has an effect and they want to bring their friends and that takes effort and it becomes a part of their life. I mean, look at the marketing effort in itself”
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