Already a popular film critic and novelist, Will Jordan, better known as The Critical Drinker, attended Megacon in Orlando, sitting on a star-studded panel with Nerdrotic, Eric July, Ryan Kinel, and Jeremy Griggs from Geeks + Gamers. The panel hit a lot of topics about the changing landscape of pop culture and anti-wokeism, but Critical Drinker announced to cheers from the crowd about taking back the culture by making films of his own.
The Critical Drinker is one of the most successful pop culture discussion channels, with nearly two million subscribers. His hot takes on pop culture phenomena from Disney Marvel to the Barbie movie have resonated with millions of views per video, making him one of the most powerful influencers on YouTube.
Even though his main content is telling viewers “Why modern movies suck,” he’s also hosted great writers like Mark Millar for one on one interviews about how to write quality stories. The ability to transition to constructive thoughts on culture is a large part of his success.
His novel, Dark Harvest, has also done very well on Amazon, boasting 4.5 stars from over 600 ratings. It’s billed as “For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, an ancient threat, and a race against time to save humanity.”
With successful storytelling under his belt, The Critical Drinker is now delving into his main passion—film.
At the Orlando Megacon Geeks and Gamers panel, he stayed quieter than many of the other panelists for most of the time, but over halfway in, he leaned into the microphone to make an announcement.
“I think, as far as my channel goes,” The Critical Drinker said, “I thought I’d take a crack at making movies of my own, why not?”
He continued, “We’ve got our first short film coming out in a month or two, and we’re gonna see where we can go after that, but we’ve got a lot of plans.”
The crowd erupted into applause as The Critical Drinker proclaimed what people had been hoping from the anti-woke critic community, “If Hollywood won’t make good stuff by themselves, fine, I’ll do it myself.”
Fans in these spaces have been wondering when cultural commentators would get into the film-making business. With novels and comics, it has been a low barrier to entry for cost, and people like Razorfist and Eric July have made tremendous success in those spaces so far, but film has been an animal that seems out of reach of most people.
With The Critical Drinker having two million subscribers, he has a base where he might have enough of a fandom to successfully crowdfund a full feature-length film. If this comes to fruition, it will change the game forever, as mainstream culture will have a fully operational alternative in almost every media.
What do you think of The Critical Drinker announcing on the Geeks + Gamers panel at Megacon that he will be working on a feature film? Leave a comment and let us know.
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I would like to see The Critical Drinker’s film be distributed by The Daily Wire.
“The black Stan Lee”.
Poor Stan Lee… He was taken advantage of a lot. Especially towards the end. And now Eric July is being compared to him when he cant defend himself. Poor guy. EJ has a lot to learn before he can be called a “writer”.
I can’t help thinking that Drinker’s films will still be as diverse as Hollywood films, and still push elements of “THE MESSAGE”, but with a less heavy hand and more emphasis on storytelling.