The strike claims the scalp of Sam Esmail's Metropolis

This strike has gone on long enough. People (me) are being hurt now.

Oh boy - this one hurts.

An Apple TV+ reimagining of the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis has been shut down permanently due to costs associated with the writers strike. The US show was set to go into production in Melbourne, Australia this coming summer (US summer - it’ll be winter in Victoria for reasons that have to do with toilets flushing the wrong w…