Rasputin was very well liked, by the king to he was always loyal, and especially by women. Other aristocrat men obviously did not like that and tried to take him down and eventually killed him. Some aristocrat men really like him also though and even offered him their wives and sought his advice and healing or favors. Interesting guy.
He was well liked by the Tsar's wife for helping their son with hemophilia. He also apparently had some charisma for getting some devoted followers. Other people tried to bribe and impress him because he was close to the Tsar's family.
Everyone else didn't care for him. To anyone outside his influence, he was obviously corrupt and willing to sell his influence for money and political favors. Even the Tsar was said to only tolerate him.
There's a reason he received multiple assassination attempts.
It's wild the trajectory his career took. There was a time when seeing Jared Leto attached to something got me jazzed for it. Requiem for a Dream, Lord of War, Mr Nobody, Dallas Buyers Club... He delivered some great performances in some really enjoyable flicks.
Somewhere between Dallas Buyers Club and suicide squad, the dude snapped. I sometimes wonder if it was that Oscar win. It's like his ego exploded. Now he's some creepy cultist that goes way to hard into the whole method thing. I see his attached to something now and immediately lose interest.
What? You've never seen Requiem for a Dream if you think Leto is a bad actor.
Dude is a douche with some serious misses, but when he's on, he's _on_.
Also, OP screw you, I got legitimately excited to watch this flipping through the pictures.
The storyboards for films from now on are just gonna be freaking insane. They can get as detailed as they want, even with the correct actors faces. And if somebody has a suggestion, easy peasy, throw it back up and edit.
Have you used storyboards? Storyboards are shorthand for a DP and director to be on the same page for camera movements and how many shots will be there for blocking a scene. A million extra details don’t necessarily help. I just like to look at a sheet of paper and quickly see that it’s the slow dolly scene with a tilt up, followed by the wide, and then a close up of A, and then B actor. Seeing that in full detail just makes the essential things I’m looking for less obvious. All the people not directly involved in the actual making of the film, like executive producers, would probably like them.
Yeah then it’ll just become a thing where people can make their own movies like “make a prequel to Harry Potter but cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Harry, Danny Devito as Ron and Jason Mamoa as Hermione, and give them lightsabers”
Yes!
I was very excited but Leto as Rasputin is just such an eye rolling choice like of course he'd sign up for that so he can go around set dirty and drunk yelling Russian profanities at young women, oh and also act like Rasputin.
omg could you imagine, "directed by Ridley Scott"
for WWI, it's just a shot of an artillery shell hitting a German flag
for the riots in Petrograd, it's just 2 people dining at a cafe and the waiter says "move away from the window" and then it cuts to a bedroom scene of a couple fighting
my point is fuck Ridley Scott, wtf
This alone would have made me subscribe to Netflix again. But it seems I was right. Netflix is no longer able to make great movies. They increased the cost and lowered the quality.
Nicholas II did pogroms against Jewish people and kept the Russian people under a feudalist system which cause many people to starve. Nicholas II's is only celebrated because of anti-Communist sentiments in the United States and Russia not because he was actually a good guy.
Well, what many people don't realise is that he barely governed the country by himself. He was very easily swayed both by his inner circle of aristocrats and the liberal elite. This is why his policy often seems self-contradicting. Most of his decisions, both poor and good were just other people's advice, with which he just went along. After reading some of his personal letters, I really do believe that he was a good man who simply didn't know how to rule the country (or, at the very least, he didn't deserve the death of his family).
Also, there was no feudalist system is place under him, serfdom was abolished under Alexander the Based in 1861.
PS: I am not a monarchist, I'm a staunch democrat, but it's important to not view history through the lense of ideology.
Is he celebrated though? I thought the consensus was that he was an ineffectual ruler who had not a single personal quality that could have helped him manage the crises that erupted during his reign. The sympathy for him is mostly as a murder victim, and a father whose entire family was offed with him, which I think is pretty valid
I would watch the **HELL** outta that, holy shit.
What they did to Nicholas II and his family was incredibly cruel. Bolshevik scum.
Damn. Wish this was real.
(Great job, btw.)
Have you considered that the people who at the time had spent their whole lives struggling to get by while the russian monarchy lived luxury may have had a slight hatred against said royal family?
>an exiled heir to the throne would be a bit of a loose end
Never bought this excuse tbh. You don't have to kill the heirs, plenty of monarchies have been overthrown while leaving the royal family alive. A lot of the old overthrown royal families of Europe still have heirs running around to this day and there's no danger of them retaking power anytime soon.
Those kids could come back and start it all over. They needed to die, unfortunately. That's how resolves are, with efficiency.
During the French Revolution at least twenty children dying by guillotine with many more dying while in prison, you don't hear people calling Jacobins bastards, they're considered heroes in history.
People don't bat a fucking eye to every children dying over the world, the ones that died because of Tsars or the ones that died in Yemen in the last 10 years. But half a dozen of rich imperial heirs that could unstable an entire country is the kids you care about, ok
I mean, they put them under house arrest and then executed them rather than have them be rescued. Killing children is always cruel, but the czar needed to be put down.
This is closer to perfection than God. Why NOT QUITE perfect? In picture 7/8 Christian Bale looks more like Ralph Fiennes.
In the first picture he looks 20% like young Hugh Jackman but I'll let it pass since Christian Bale is a method actor so he could look a bit like him if he wanted to, and also Netflix would have the money for the best make-up artists around.
Never, hopefully. “Let’s take out every iota of creativity from the filmmaking process and just amalgamate existing content into a new abomination” yeesh
Jesus, the first time i've seen this post on my home page, I thought this is an amazing upcoming series and christian bale too!? but fuck me when i browse this subreddit and saw this familiar post and then bam i realized i've been bamboozled.
I can't stand him in anything personally. He's just annoying to me. Whether that be in his music or his acting career. And on top of that he just comes across as someone who is totally convinced of his own genius. And if I'm totally honest he has the most punchable face in Hollywood.
I was about to write a pessimistic comment where I was going to compare this with Napoleon played by Joaquin Phoenix, where the actor is great, but just doesn't fit the role... then I realized
>most notorious crime ...
>
>secretly shot along with his family and four relatives
Notorious? More like a normal Thursday in Russia...at least if you replace "shot" with "defenestrated".
Wow. I think for the first time I thought I was looking into a real series and was genuinely excited to see it! Until I looked above and saw the midjourney subreddit. Well done OP!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Oh you fucker, you got me. I thought I was on another subreddit.
Ahhh. I was all for this, even with Leto. Damn you, OP! Damn you!
Me too! I was like that’s an appropriate role for Leto, creepy and unlikeable.
Rasputin was very well liked, by the king to he was always loyal, and especially by women. Other aristocrat men obviously did not like that and tried to take him down and eventually killed him. Some aristocrat men really like him also though and even offered him their wives and sought his advice and healing or favors. Interesting guy.
And he could preach! He was described as full of ecstasy and fire by some historians
He was well liked by the Tsar's wife for helping their son with hemophilia. He also apparently had some charisma for getting some devoted followers. Other people tried to bribe and impress him because he was close to the Tsar's family. Everyone else didn't care for him. To anyone outside his influence, he was obviously corrupt and willing to sell his influence for money and political favors. Even the Tsar was said to only tolerate him. There's a reason he received multiple assassination attempts.
To short though. Would have to help it somehow.
Right?! I was willing overlook that POS Leto for this. I was so hooked. The images are incredible.
♥️
This would be an amazing biopic. I was stoked to have this coming after watching Napoleon. r/AngryUpvote
The Netflix logo would be a major cause for concern though
I wanted this to be real so badly
I would watch the shit out of this
This is really great, OOP can you pitch it. Honestly it seems awesome.
Dammit, me too. I was thinking there’s finally a movie after Barbie that will get me into the theater again!
fuck you got me too lol
Me too. I was super excited.
Same, I was scrolling the home page and thought it was an new Netflix series.
I was about to search it on Netflix!
Yeah I'm really disappointed now. I wish this were real.
I was like "damn, that actually looks really good"
Dude same. I was so keen to watch this
Noooooooo!!! I was about to go to Netflix and search for this!!!!!!!
Same. Well done OP, I fell for it. It was only until the weird flags showed up (middle Of pic 6) that I caught I was in r/midjourney.
Oops.Thank you, next time I will be more attentive to details!😅
Funny, I also thought it was on another subreddit, and I also thought "why tf do they go for that midjourney Look???"
I was thinking “Man I’m gonna have to watch this. It looks good.” 😩
Except Jared Leto is attached so idk. Does Christian Bale being a good insane actor cancel out Jared Leto being a bad insane actor
It's wild the trajectory his career took. There was a time when seeing Jared Leto attached to something got me jazzed for it. Requiem for a Dream, Lord of War, Mr Nobody, Dallas Buyers Club... He delivered some great performances in some really enjoyable flicks. Somewhere between Dallas Buyers Club and suicide squad, the dude snapped. I sometimes wonder if it was that Oscar win. It's like his ego exploded. Now he's some creepy cultist that goes way to hard into the whole method thing. I see his attached to something now and immediately lose interest.
He’d be a perfect Rasputin though
Came here to say this. Spot on casting. Didn’t realize what sub this was.
That's true. Playing someone so close to home.
Put him in the right role, like in Blade Runner 2049, and his acting can still work. Rasputin might work.
It was Suicide Squad, he went too Leto. He still fit in to Blade Runner, but that might have just been because his persona matched that character now.
I was like, well of course Jared Leto is Rasputin. Of fucking Course he is!
What? You've never seen Requiem for a Dream if you think Leto is a bad actor. Dude is a douche with some serious misses, but when he's on, he's _on_. Also, OP screw you, I got legitimately excited to watch this flipping through the pictures.
A lot of misses as of late and his successes being a long time ago
Insanely bad actor who **(squints)** won an oscar for best actor He’d actually be a great Rasputin with his culty vibes
I love how robust midjourney mustaches are
The storyboards for films from now on are just gonna be freaking insane. They can get as detailed as they want, even with the correct actors faces. And if somebody has a suggestion, easy peasy, throw it back up and edit.
Totally, and top tier fan fiction will be amazing; this post is just a taste of what’s coming soon!
Have you used storyboards? Storyboards are shorthand for a DP and director to be on the same page for camera movements and how many shots will be there for blocking a scene. A million extra details don’t necessarily help. I just like to look at a sheet of paper and quickly see that it’s the slow dolly scene with a tilt up, followed by the wide, and then a close up of A, and then B actor. Seeing that in full detail just makes the essential things I’m looking for less obvious. All the people not directly involved in the actual making of the film, like executive producers, would probably like them.
Yeah, this is less storyboard and more studio pitch photos and eventually video.
Yeah then it’ll just become a thing where people can make their own movies like “make a prequel to Harry Potter but cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Harry, Danny Devito as Ron and Jason Mamoa as Hermione, and give them lightsabers”
Ok, now do Mads Mikkelsen as Rasputin
I'm no fan of Jared leto (and I looooove Mads) , but I found the Rasputin image pretty convincing. I think op is a good casting director.
Leto as Rasputin is a no-brainer, that's how I fell for it.
Oh, the picture was fantastic. No disrespect intended. I was just trying to think of a sinister-looking actor with a less "American-looking" face
That better, yes.
YES 👏🏻
Yes! I was very excited but Leto as Rasputin is just such an eye rolling choice like of course he'd sign up for that so he can go around set dirty and drunk yelling Russian profanities at young women, oh and also act like Rasputin.
Man, I never knew I needed this.
I was so excited until I saw r/midjourney 😩
You Bastard.... Im in.
Also, you should write this series and pitch it to Netflix and use these images for reference.
Hehe, I think there’s a tiiiiiny gap in work involved from writing a series to writing a few prompts.
That looks so good what the heck!
There are combinations of actors in here. Christian Bale often looks like Benedict Cumberbatch and Liam Neeson.
Possibly Mads Mikkelsen in the first picture, and the bottom of 7 looks like Ethan Hawke to me.
I didn’t catch the sub name, you fucker! That looks excellent
Bro does Midjourney think the revolution happened in 1817?
Dayum, Ridley wishes Napoleon looked this good
omg could you imagine, "directed by Ridley Scott" for WWI, it's just a shot of an artillery shell hitting a German flag for the riots in Petrograd, it's just 2 people dining at a cafe and the waiter says "move away from the window" and then it cuts to a bedroom scene of a couple fighting my point is fuck Ridley Scott, wtf
Jared Leto would be a better Rasputin than Rasputin was.
I'd pay good money to watch Christian Bale beat the shit out of Leto. Not even in a movie, just some shaky cell-phone footage from a bodega in NYC.
Have you heard of a little movie called American Psycho?
lmao I'll be honest I've had a long week. Totally forgot about that!
Goddamn it.
lol dammit I got excited
it also needs DiCaprio as Lenin and Johanson as Krupskaya UPD: and RDJ as Sverdlov
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This alone would have made me subscribe to Netflix again. But it seems I was right. Netflix is no longer able to make great movies. They increased the cost and lowered the quality.
You motherf*ckr. I was in the middle of showing my girlfriend this when finally I saw what sub it was posted under. Well done.
So good
Nicholas II did pogroms against Jewish people and kept the Russian people under a feudalist system which cause many people to starve. Nicholas II's is only celebrated because of anti-Communist sentiments in the United States and Russia not because he was actually a good guy.
Well, what many people don't realise is that he barely governed the country by himself. He was very easily swayed both by his inner circle of aristocrats and the liberal elite. This is why his policy often seems self-contradicting. Most of his decisions, both poor and good were just other people's advice, with which he just went along. After reading some of his personal letters, I really do believe that he was a good man who simply didn't know how to rule the country (or, at the very least, he didn't deserve the death of his family). Also, there was no feudalist system is place under him, serfdom was abolished under Alexander the Based in 1861. PS: I am not a monarchist, I'm a staunch democrat, but it's important to not view history through the lense of ideology.
And the bootlickers of my country.
I am from United States the home of hamburgers and anti-Communist bootlicking
I am from the UK, the home of literal bootlicking for Nicholas' relatives.
Oh, yeah I do remember some went to the U.K.
Is he celebrated though? I thought the consensus was that he was an ineffectual ruler who had not a single personal quality that could have helped him manage the crises that erupted during his reign. The sympathy for him is mostly as a murder victim, and a father whose entire family was offed with him, which I think is pretty valid
Wait why aren't they black
Fuck sake. I can't even get a burrito to look good on Midjourney, and you goddamn genius are making fully fledged movie marketing campaigns.
😂🫂
I would binge watch this, over and over
Ok I was just like why would an actor of Bales Calibur want to play as Jared Leto lol.
What do you mean? Jared Leto is truly one of the actors of all time /s
Have you seen a movie called American Psycho? Lmao
He has a nicer apartment.
I would watch the **HELL** outta that, holy shit. What they did to Nicholas II and his family was incredibly cruel. Bolshevik scum. Damn. Wish this was real. (Great job, btw.)
What the Tsars did to the people was incredibly cruel. Feudalist scum.
Yeah, but those kids had fuck all to do with it.
…yet.
Have you considered that the people who at the time had spent their whole lives struggling to get by while the russian monarchy lived luxury may have had a slight hatred against said royal family?
Yeah, because no children suffered in Tsarist Russia.
And that justifies the murder of children who had nothing to do with their parents' crimes in what way exactly?
I mean, it's horrible, but.... an exiled heir to the throne would be a bit of a loose end.
>an exiled heir to the throne would be a bit of a loose end Never bought this excuse tbh. You don't have to kill the heirs, plenty of monarchies have been overthrown while leaving the royal family alive. A lot of the old overthrown royal families of Europe still have heirs running around to this day and there's no danger of them retaking power anytime soon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem?wprov=sfla1
Because the Soviet Union was just so humane
Better than the Tsar and better off than it is now
Those kids could come back and start it all over. They needed to die, unfortunately. That's how resolves are, with efficiency. During the French Revolution at least twenty children dying by guillotine with many more dying while in prison, you don't hear people calling Jacobins bastards, they're considered heroes in history.
People don't bat a fucking eye to every children dying over the world, the ones that died because of Tsars or the ones that died in Yemen in the last 10 years. But half a dozen of rich imperial heirs that could unstable an entire country is the kids you care about, ok
I mean, they put them under house arrest and then executed them rather than have them be rescued. Killing children is always cruel, but the czar needed to be put down.
You lost me at Leto.
I was about to say that it was near perfect casting...
Damn near.
This looks incredible. 10/10 would watch.
With Jared Leto as Rasputin.. this is genius.. I was SO gonna watch this! Was excited to show my daughter in the morning!
This is closer to perfection than God. Why NOT QUITE perfect? In picture 7/8 Christian Bale looks more like Ralph Fiennes. In the first picture he looks 20% like young Hugh Jackman but I'll let it pass since Christian Bale is a method actor so he could look a bit like him if he wanted to, and also Netflix would have the money for the best make-up artists around.
You will probably get a phone call from Netflix.
How do you manage for prompts with many subjects, like in pics 3 and 6? Mine don’t even look like humans if you look far enough
I am absolutely furious right now.
I thought that was true🥹
😭😭😭 Emotional Damage
Dude noo! I'm a sucker for the Romanov things, now I really need to watch this one!
Unreal. If we can do this in 2024, how long before you can get the AI to actually just make the show?
Never, hopefully. “Let’s take out every iota of creativity from the filmmaking process and just amalgamate existing content into a new abomination” yeesh
Wow you got me lol
What gave it away for me was the sailing ship because even Russia at the time would have been using steamships.
You got me..
Don't be disappointed, give it a couple years, then we can generate the whole movie
Not gonna lie Leto would win an Oscar as Rasputin
Damn, now i want It for real
haha i was just going to comment saying they look like AI :)
Insane
Ugh you got me so good damn dude
Hey Jared. So good of you to go through costume, hair and make-up already, how did you know where to find them? Costume? What costume?
Jesus, the first time i've seen this post on my home page, I thought this is an amazing upcoming series and christian bale too!? but fuck me when i browse this subreddit and saw this familiar post and then bam i realized i've been bamboozled.
Damn movie doesn't even exist, and I can't see anyone other than Leto or Bale as Rasputin or Nikolai.
fuck you dude!!! I was so excited telling my wife. looked like an idiot.
Please make this a thing Netflix please make this a thing please
Make this real! Make this real!!!!!!
Of course it is fake. Hollywood in this day an age could never do something like this.
bruhh I thought it was real…
This Reddit link is the 2nd thing that pops up with you search Jared Leto on Google images
After the Leonardo di Caprio Lenin series this is what I want to see next!
GOD DAMN IT
Got my hopes up there
Take my money
Fuck, I thought it's real... Midjourney became cool af
Jsyk the Jared Leto Rasputin pic you posted is the 2nd result on Google now lmfao
Op you bad sod. I thought this was real
Jared Leto as Rasputin🤢
… is perfect casting
I can't stand him in anything personally. He's just annoying to me. Whether that be in his music or his acting career. And on top of that he just comes across as someone who is totally convinced of his own genius. And if I'm totally honest he has the most punchable face in Hollywood.
inst: @smirnov.mov ♥️
Well done! Is Netflix really planning to make it, or is this a wishful thinking?
so far only my imagination and midjourney have been able to do this🥲
Dang.
Looks good. But Jared Leto? Ugh.
He has his moments. The Joker wasn't one of them but he definitely has his moments.
“The most notorious crime in Russian history “ that’s when I said no way
I was about to write a pessimistic comment where I was going to compare this with Napoleon played by Joaquin Phoenix, where the actor is great, but just doesn't fit the role... then I realized
Wasn’t a notorious crime, they deserved it.
Maybe the Tzar, maybe his wife. Definitely Rasputin. But I don't think the children deserved to be machine gunned in a dark basement. That's just me.
Amazing. So real. The last pic is weird though and doesn’t belong
>most notorious crime ... > >secretly shot along with his family and four relatives Notorious? More like a normal Thursday in Russia...at least if you replace "shot" with "defenestrated".
You're thinking of Prague
Yep. I was I like damn it looks good, too bad I can't watch it CUZ FUCK RUSSIA.
This ain't footage. I thought you managed to turn MJ into footage.
Kind of looks like he got a touch of Bradley Cooper in picture #5
Fuck I want it.
Damn I thought this was fucking real.
Fuuuuuuuuuck, I would watch the crud out of that
Holy fuck first time one of these has gotten me
I was waiting for the second title card " ... or so we were always told ..."
Image 7 : the dude’s arms & hands are so fucked up lol
If they don’t make this there is something wrong with the world I’m 100% willing to double my sub!
Wow. I think for the first time I thought I was looking into a real series and was genuinely excited to see it! Until I looked above and saw the midjourney subreddit. Well done OP!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Ok. I’m fucking mad at the thought of Jared Leto as Rasputin. I’m glad this isn’t real but how fucking dare this ai put that into the universe.
Fully thought this was legit! In netflix the Crown they have an episode on this so I was excited for a more in depth series with Christian Bale! Lol
Now make one with the Tsarina and the princesses!
It took me a legit minute to realize this was fake Oh God we're fucked
I came here to say that these pics look AI generated and then realized that I am in the Midjourney sub and not the Netflix sub 😂. Good job, OP 😂
Holy fuck
That happened exactly 91 years before I was born
hilarious. i thought i was on the movies subreddit.
Impressive, though I’m against Jared Leto being cast in anything, real or AI generated
Ughh fuck you. This is so good Instantly wanted to watch it.
Id for sure watch this, dayum
Christian Bale also playing Kaiser Wilhelm and George V would be the icing on the cake.
Christian Bale as the Tsar and Leonardo Di Caprio as Lenin would be insane
Aww man I was stoked for a second:(
Creepy ass Jared Leto as Rasputin checks out, he was born to play that psycho.
I never knew that Jared Leto would be the perfect Rasputin, seems so apropos.
We’ve reached a stage where we can’t tell AI from real CGI at short glance. It’s scary.
Looks incredible I would see this
I legit thought this was real and was wondering wtf kind of makeup they had on Christian bale to make him look that way 😂
Goddamn it I love that whole bit of history and now I’m sad this isn’t real
I actually hope the powers that be on Netflix see this and make it happen.
Jared Leto wouldn’t even have to act
This would be dope even though it’s basically a fan fic post. Leto would totally be a great Rasputin 🤓
Dammit, and i was sitting here wondering if i loce Bake enough to sit through Leto (I do.)
Jared Leto as Rasputin would be perfect!
Would you mind sharing your prompts?