They also shared their thoughts about why some Hollywood movies seem very similar nowadays. “I think that Hollywood has a formula that they keep recycling over and over again. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, as it can be done really well, but after seeing a hundred of the same fight scenes, love scenes, plot lines, and genres, it can get a bit old.”

The movie industry is being challenged by streaming services

Someone certainly thought that the Tumblr user’s idea was brilliant enough to warrant sharing on Imgur; there, it got more than 4,300 upvotes in just a day’s time.

Some internet users pitched their own ideas of actor duos who could also be in the film, while others expressed their enthusiasm to see the project make it to the silver screen. Of course, there were some naysayers who thought that some of the actors looked nothing alike, apart from superficial things like having a similar hairstyle.

Kyle Buchanan writes in The New York Times that the movie industry (or rather the younger generation’s perception of it) is changing rapidly. For the article, he interviewed 24 Hollywood figures, including actor Kumail Nanjiani, and got their perspectives on things.

“I was at a bar with a friend who directs big movies, and while we were in line for the bathroom, he was saying that movie theaters were going to go away. He was like, ‘Kids don’t watch movies, they watch YouTube,’” Nanjiani told The New York Times.

Movies don’t hold the same weight that they used to before. That has almost everything to do with the rise of streaming services like Netflix, as well as the existence of the powerhouse that is YouTube. And this means that some brand-name blockbusters aren’t busting blocks anymore. Meanwhile, it’s harder and harder for small studios to survive, as they’re ‘gobbled up’ by bigger ones.

“This is the biggest shift in the content business in the history of Hollywood,” producer Jason Blum told Buchanan.