Has Covid19 killed the film business? How will they ever show a crowd scene without masks?

[Baclava]

Will all scenes of everyday life be fiction and pretend nothing has changed?

Will all actors have to wear masks from now on?

Just been watching movies and thinking, they can't film that today and call it contemporary life.

[intrepidity]

1. xkcd shares your concern:

[dewsgirl]

2. I'm already feeling like this with commercials, I know most

are old, but some are new and others leave me with questions.🤷

[Baclava]

3. They will just have to make everything in the past, when dinner dates still had open restaurants?

I read one article that said love scenes are being cut out, unless the actors involved are, involved, off set

More husband/wife Hollywood marriages to get parts???? Yeah

[Kablooie]

4. Everything could be CG

CG animation Is being done with most artists working from home.

[Baclava]

6. Maybe, but crappy CGI ruins any movie for me more than anything else, wont do, I will turn it off

And low budget indie films wont have the blockbuster resources

[beachbumbob]

5. immunity testing can be the answer easy enough

[Fla Dem]

7. Just like the NBA, they'll have to quarantine everyone during production.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

8. This season of the Conners they are in quarantine

and wearing masks but in a lame half arsed kind of way Maybe they are aiming for realism, in that so many people wear their masks in a lame half arsed kind of way.

When Becky and Darlene and their coworkers went to the break room last week everyone wore masks walking there but then took them off when they sat down at the table and started talking. Like - huh? Isnt that when you want them on, when you are within 6 ft?

[targetpractice]

10. That seems to be a convention....

I love the show Superstore, and they had a great season premiere with COVID focus.

Now they wear masks partially... But, they always have one in hand... I get this and am okay with it... Comedy is about delivery, and facial expressions are important.

[EarthFirst]

9. Easy solution...

Just like in the sporting world:

Run thousands of tests per week per production in the name of entertainment; while front line healthcare workers look on in amazement saying: “What the fuck...?”

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-thousands-of-athletes-get-coronavirus-tests-nurses-wonder-what-about-us/?fbclid=IwAR13i_Hi5zoe4XVq7M_zf-vnHi3VwtnlncvZC99vkR4hGtS5lOo6P3LMdpU

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. This industry will get vaccines early.

After the NFL, maybe after covid healthcare workers, before most of the population. Before seniors, before teachers and kids.

I wonder if anyone's watching over the planeload of vaccines that was flown from Belgium to Chicago. Or is it hitting the black market (for Jared's profits)

[Baclava]

12. U think they can buy their way to the front of the line? Nope, the TP plants workers would strike

[JCMach1]

13. CGI