Every empire starts with a little curiosity, one click, one deal, one dream too ambitious to fit in a server room. Hollywood has seen its share of rulers and rebels, but every now and then, a new contender enters the frame with a glow in its logo and an algorithm in its heart. This time, that glow belongs to Netflix, and its gaze seems to be flickering toward the grand gates of Warner Bros.

While other streamers chase trends, one seems ready to buy the plot itself and maybe even the sequel.

According to Reuters, Netflix has called in investment bank Moelis & Co., the same dealmakers behind Skydance’s takeover of Paramount Global, to evaluate a possible Warner Bros. Discovery bid. The streamer has peeked behind the financial curtains, weighing whether absorbing the studio behind Harry Potter, DC Comics, and HBO could be the biggest glow-up in Hollywood history. The plot twist? The disruptor might soon become the empire it once rebelled against.

As Reuters highlights, Netflix is not interested in the parts of Warner Bros. Discovery still living in cable-TV nostalgia. Channels like CNN and TNT, once rulers of remote controls, no longer fit into Ted Sarandos’s sleek algorithmic kingdom. The real treasure lies in the streaming and studio divisions, the ones crafting shows Netflix already flirts with. If this deal lands, Hollywood’s power map might need an update, and every rival will suddenly feel like a side character.

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While the ink of legacy fades, Netflix seems to be sketching a future where nostalgia and disruption share the same screen and only one survives the credits.

Netflix Co-CEO Greg Peters recently brushed off talk of a Warner Bros. Discovery bid, saying the company prefers “being builders rather than buyers.” Yet, if the deal ever does go through, the global streaming battlefield could split open like a dramatic season finale. Picture Hogwarts, Gotham, and Westeros glowing under one crimson logo. Subscribers might celebrate until the price adjustment email lands. Convenience is cute, but monopolies tend to wear designer shoes.

For Hollywood, this would mark Netflix’s full transformation, from digital rebel to legacy landlord. Warner Bros. brings prestige, old-school cinematic gravity, and a heritage built on red carpets, not thumbnails. Netflix might have to embrace the very thing it once mocked: the theater. Picture a DC blockbuster with a limited theatrical run before streaming glory. Somewhere, irony claps. In chasing immortality, Netflix might discover that rebellion was its real brand all along.

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