FIRST ON FOX: "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer spoke on "The Katie Miller Podcast" about how modern Hollywood keeps getting in its own way.Podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, observed, "Hollywood seems determined to reinvent nearly every classic, like ‘The Odyssey,’ and distort it just a little bit to fit their views.Have you watched ‘The Odyssey’?""I haven't seen ‘The Odyssey,’ so I'm not really too aware of that," Grammer admitted, but added that there are times when certain entertainment "hits me over the head" to the point where, "it's a little exhausting."He noted that the past was less multicultural than Hollywood would like to portray it, saying, "I think old England is probably full of White people" and that "I think historical significance should be respected a little bit, culturally."CHRISTOPHER NOLAN CONFIRMS BIZARRE 'THE ODYSSEY' CASTING CHOICES INCLUDING RAPPER TRAVIS SCOTTKelsey Grammer speaks onstage during a screening of "Frasier" Season 2 at Quad Cinema on Sept.
16, 2024, in New York City.(Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Paramount+)"Do you think Hollywood will ever get back there?" Miller asked."Yeah.
Hollywood isn't very good at telling people what they have to see, you know, because then they flop,’ Grammer replied."But they've had, like, successive years of just flops," Miller replied.One prominent example of a controversial adaptation that flopped was "Snow White," which reportedly netted Disney an approximately $170 million loss.Pixar — under parent company Disney — has tried to pivot away from a series of flops by cutting LGBTQ themes and warning not to make films inspired by the creators' own life stories. Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter told The Wall Street Journal that he chose this pivot because "We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.""Yeah.
They're probably figuring it out.I think eventually flopping doesn't work so we...