Scott Stuber on Hollywood’s ‘Emotional’ Response to Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, Predicts Entrepreneurial Boom

“Frankenstein” producer Scott Stuber has spent the last lap of award season fielding questions from industry insiders about his thoughts on the future of Warner Bros. and HBO amid “Succession”-level drama unfolding about its future.

Stuber has perspective on running one of the largest Hollywood film studios, from his time at Universal Pictures and from his seven-year run steering the expansion of Netflix’s original movie ambitions. He explained why this megabucks merger deal has sparked such an emotional response from the creative community and related sectors.

“The overriding feeling we all had was that for those of us in our 50s who grew up with HBO and Warner Bros. being a gold standard. So to have those things change is very difficult. It’s emotional. It’s a big change,” Stuber told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on the Actor Awards red carpet at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.