While the rest of Hollywood chases Netflix, super producer J.J Abrams is approaching entertainment in an entirely new way
Bad Robot’s Santa Monica, California, headquarters— intentionally mislabeled “the national typewriter company” in raised Futura lettering—features a small gold placard above the buzzer asking a question that unsuspecting visitors will soon find relevant: ARE YOU READY?
In the reception area, two shelves are packed with toys and curios: old-school board games, a plastic skull in a bell jar, retired typewriters, and, of course, robots. A sign encourages guests to PLEASE CREATE, and rows of colored pencils and giant sheets of newsprint are provided.
Suddenly, dozens of Bad Robot employees, armed with bagels and coffee procured from the kitchen, begin heading into one of the building’s theaters, an expansive, dark-gray room that doubles as a postproduction soundstage. It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Monday: Time for an all-hands gathering. But today the energy is heightened. The proceedings kick off with a Star Wars– themed game of charades in honor of the man casually slouched in one of the perimeter seats, his gravity-defying hair forming a tousled mop.
J.J. Abrams is back.
Abrams, who started his career as a screenwriter almost three decades ago and has grown into a megawatt player, thanks to creating such culture-defining projects as Alias and Lost, and directing reboots of Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, has spent most of the past year shooting Star Wars: Episode IX in England and Jordan.
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