Hollywood Is Broken. Let's Start a Movie Studio.

Greta Gerwig

Grabbed the moment Amanda took Peele. 'Who better to launch our business with?'

Ryan Coogler

Comes with Michael B. Jordan; once told Sean, 'I need to make my own Godfather.'

The Safdie Brothers

A two-for-one: Sean wants Josh and Benny making films under one banner again.

Timothée Chalamet

First star off the board; a proven draw even when Wonka stinks.

Tom Cruise

'Cruise can still open movies.' Sean pairs him with Gerwig for a study of aging masculinity.

Zendaya

Dev Patel

Florence Pugh

'Jodie Foster and Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.'

The Power Broker

Robert Caro; a cycle of films with Robert Moses as a Thanos of city-building, Sean's 'Godfather.'

Hyperion Cantos

Dan Simmons' prize-winning sci-fi series, Canterbury Tales in space.

Barbarian Days

William Finnegan's Pulitzer-winning surfing memoir.

The Twilight Zone

A run of 90-minute films, not a TV show: 'these are films.'

Scott Frank

A five-tool player to write his own and fix everyone else's.

Alex Garland

Author of the $125-million 'Civil War.'

Bill Hader

A Swiss-army knife who can write, direct, produce, and star.

Chinatown 1974

To get to the bottom of Noah Cross; Scott Frank could have fun with a sequel.

The Making of 'Rumours'

An unmade Fleetwood Mac movie: Bradley Cooper directing and playing Lindsey Buckingham, age issues be damned.

Barnsdall Art Park / Hollyhock House

Silver Lake, walkable to a Homestate.

90-day theatrical window

Closer to how it used to be.

Monumental Pictures

The studio from 'Singin' in the Rain.'

Jordan Peele

First overall pick; a director-producer who can steer the whole slate.

Luca Guadagnino

'45 projects in development,' plus every beautiful young actor in his orbit.

Sofia Coppola

A safe place and a budget, chosen after losing Gerwig.

Emma Stone

Taken away from Sean; free to produce whatever she wants.

Glenn Powell

Open invitation to draft his own terms: rom-coms, Merchant Ivory, whatever.

Ayo Edebiri

Writes, directs, and voices her own work.

Daniel Kaluuya

Ryan Gosling

Not box-office poison; his audience just rents at home.

The Secret History

Donna Tartt; best done as a Minghella-'Ripley'-style film, not a series.

Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan's books, redone with a bigger budget and real locations.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh; long circled by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Ocean's

Keep making them with new people; Gosling gets her Margot Robbie.

Rachel Sennott

Part of the family; could write with Ayo Edebiri.

Akela Cooper

Wrote M3GAN and Malignant; horror as a dependable house genre.

Christopher McQuarrie

'With a no-submarines clause.' A floating fixer for any script.

Seven Samurai 1954

So she can make endless movies about a few cool guys doing stuff together.

Megalopolis 2024

Acquired straight out of the Cannes Film Festival.

The Paramount lot

One step closer to being David Ellison.

6-to-8-week window

Roughly the A24 model.

Plainview Pictures

From 'There Will Be Blood'; the logo a silhouette of Amanda and her daughter, Alice.