People act like only Hollywood can make movies. Write a script. Raise money. Hire a director, actors, and all the others. Find distribution. Release to DVD, streaming platforms, whatever. People would rather wring their hands that a certain group of businesses won’t make content they want instead of going out and making it themselves. If it’s good, the audience will find it.
Do you seriously believe Hollywood would buy a script that makes them look like jerks? Jerk-jerks - NOT lovable jerks but total asshats? A story about a ‘weinstein’ that’s NOT sympathetic? A film from the perspective of the powerless victims and the sluts who ‘made it’ in the industry by sleeping their way to the top? o
Early in the “meToo’ movement there was a story about two Russian girls taken advantage of - stars in their eyes - one girl tricked into an abortion. Both men expressed shame only after being ‘outed’... From the vantage point of the two 15 year old girls... Could be an amazing film. Orson Wells could come back to life and offer to direct it and Hollywood wouldn’t buy it.
CBS (Les Moonves, 60 Minutes exec producer Jeff Fager, Charlie Rose, Rick Najera), NBC (Matt Lauer, Tom Brokaw, Mark Halperin), NPR (Michael Oreskes, head of news, David Sweeney, chief news editor), not to mention scandals involving the head of Amazon studios, the chief creative officer for Walt Disney Animation, Bill Cosby, Paul Haggis, Morgan Freeman, Russell Simmons, Tavis Smiley, Louie C.K., Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Tambor, James Franco, Casey Affleck, and an endless legion of other big industry names...