Midway through the first episode of The Franchise , the new HBO series about the making of a comic-book blockbuster, the movie’s director finds out that an entire civilization no longer exists. Eric (Daniel Brühl), an intense German auteur who’s just made the leap from festival darling to the studio lot, is seven weeks into shooting Tecto: Eye of the Storm when he gets a visit from Pat (Darren Goldstein), a bearlike executive from Maximum Studios. Pat, this corner of the multiverse’s equivalent

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