Purple Core Media

 Hello, Toby Gold here, and I wish you all a Happy New Year!!!! With this new year of 2023, I have decided to create my own production company. I call it Purple Core Media, which is a reference to Astro Boy (2009), a computer-animated futuristic science fiction superhero film that bombed so badly at the box office that it led to the dissolution of the studio that made it. Featuring an all-star cast including Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Nathan Lane (The Lion King), Eugene Levy (American Pie), Matt Lucas (Alice in Wonderland), Bill Nighy (Rango, Love Actually), Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games), Charlize Theron (Monster), and Nicolas Cage (Ghost Rider), the plot centred around two powerful energy spheres used to power robots; a blue core made of pure positive energy, and an extremely unstable and negative red core that resulted as a side effect of the creation of the blue one. All my life, I've drifted back and forth between positive and negative subject matter in the media that I produce and consume on a regular basis. When I went through my negativity phase, the subject matter I gravitated towards was dark and gritty, and when I went through my positivity phase, it was saccharine and cartoonish. The common denominator of both is the focus on one to the exclusion of the other. During the winter break, I realized that I needed to make some major changes to the way I conduct myself and tell my stories if I am to become a better person. How am I going to do that? By finding balance between positive and negative subject matter. I plan to do this by highlighting both positive and negative aspects in the stories I invest in. If blue is positive and red is negative, then why not create a purple core that highlights both the good and the bad in life? Everything and everyone in this world has both negative and positive parts to themselves, and that's a fact of life. In Astro Boy, the one and only Samuel L. Jackson voiced Zog, an old-school robot revived by the power of the title character's blue core energy. Coincidentally, SLJ was also in Star Wars, in which he played Mace Windu, a Jedi who wields a purple lightsaber due to the fact that he uses both the Light and Dark Sides of the Force. Now that 2023 has begun, I have been brainstorming ideas for entirely original stories which I will write for Purple Core Media. Gone are the days when I tried to collect all the licensed content I could find, only to pour them all into a metaphorical hole in the ground and squander my potential on franchises that already exist. From now on, I will place more emphasis on creating my own original content. I have a lot to learn about screenwriting, and it's going to be a long journey ahead, but in the words of the cleaner from Toy Story 2 (1999), "You can't rush art." Anyway, I wish you all a very happy New Year, and hope to keep you posted on the stories I plan to tell. This is Toby Gold, signing off.