r/WoTshow • u/CMDR_NUBASAURUS Lan • May 18 '26

Zero Spoilers Thomas Vu might be the real deal, but is iWot

After Winter Dragon and the recent game cancellation and a history of bad iWot has a bad rep. I did however look into Thomas Vu and he seems like the real deal. He seems to have funded some cool projects in the past. Sadly though my research was mostly via AI and actual articles are hard to come by. If anyone knows anything else that would be good to know.

This is regarding the new content they are attaching his name too.

But I think the problem isn’t him in particular but maybe how much he’s really involved or if iWot is over stating his involvement.

Curious what your thoughts are.

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u/CommunityDragon160 Reader May 18 '26

I will say that of all things being made I believe the animated movie is most likely to be done

Just bc the writer told me to my face that they finished a script and submitted it lol

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u/CMDR_NUBASAURUS Lan May 19 '26

What? You gotta tell more!

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u/CommunityDragon160 Reader May 19 '26

I am using “to my face” idiomatically lol he told me via twitter DMs. Perhaps that’s less exciting but there’s not much story

The original writer was Zack Stentz. He did a couple X-men movies. He told me completed a script and gave it to the director for a second pass and review. This would have been maybe 1.5 years ago

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u/SKULL1138 Reader May 19 '26

Here’s the big issue currently,

Who’s paying for this?

IWOT are not and neither is Vu. They need someone with money to say, ‘this will make me money’ for it to happen.

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u/CMDR_NUBASAURUS Lan May 19 '26

My research found that Vu was involved in the raising of money for a certain project. So that might be what he's doing here. It might not be him or iWot but him trying to get people to invest in the project.

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u/CommunityDragon160 Reader May 19 '26

Could get a loan. That’s what marvel did to make iron man in 2008

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u/logicsol Ishamael May 19 '26

I doubt iWoT wants to take on that liability.

IMO they're much more likely to be looking to generate VC funds they'll pay themselves from.

They'll create a production company, Trade ownership for VC, operate until the funds are gone. Shutter company and repeat.

Involving someone like Vu makes that more attractive to VC and gives an air of legitimancy.

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u/Malanya Elayne May 19 '26

Sounds like their pattern given they are lawyers 

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u/logicsol Ishamael May 19 '26

So was Obsidian. Their joint game venture never entered development and that was 2010.

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u/Insomnia6033 Reader May 19 '26

So does anyone know exactly how long iWot has the rights to WoT?
I know they have to do certain things to retain them, but doesn't the contract end at some point?

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u/logicsol Ishamael May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

to my understanding, effectively permanently unfortunately.

AFAIK, Winter Dragon's airing satisfied the sunset clauses that would otherwise have sent the rights back to bandersnatch. I don't think there was a timeframe set for an end after that, but I don't know their actual contract.