Another "COVID Delay" Movie Finally to Hit Movie Screens and Streaming

Formerly ecarle.

I remember that I couldn't wait for Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" to get made and get released back in 2019. It was the kind of "fan hunger" that I rarely felt anymore. It took about a year to get the movie cast, filmed, prepped and out in theaters, and it was great to see it.

As Tarantino noted, that movie "just made it before the window closed" as COVID hit in March 2020 and delayed production on a number of key movies, or delayed their release, or both.

First to get delayed was No Time to Die, which was already in the can and ready for April 2020 release, but got pulled due to COVID and then kept getting its release date moved, and moved, and moved again til people weren't all that excited about it anymore(well, it was still a mega hit , but that was automatic.)

The next big delay was to Top Gun 2: Maverick. The next big delay was for the new Indiana Jones movie(worrysome given the age of star Harrison Ford -- could we AFFORD to wait?)

And the next big delay -- to film let alone to release -- was the Scorsese movie Killers of the Flower Moon. The ages of Scorsese and DeNiro made COVID filming a dangerous proposition.

2020 now feels like a long time ago, and perhaps all of these movies would have been 2021 releases. Top Gun 2 got out in 2022, a two year delay. But Indy Jones (summer) and Killers of the Flower Moon will go out in 2023...a three year delay.

I sure am glad that didn't happen with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!