Netflix’s much-hyped Skyscraper Live won’t be going live tonight from Taiwan’s capital due to Mother Nature.
“Due to weather, we are unable to proceed with today’s SkyscraperLIVE event,” a spokesperson for the streamer said with just 30 minutes to go before the whole ascend up the Taipei 101 was set to start. “It has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 24 at 8 PM ET | 5 PM PT. Safety remains our top priority, and we appreciate your understanding.”
“We will follow up later today with updated timing on press opportunities for tomorrow.”
Things were already looking a little dicey just a few days ago as the Heavens were opening up over Taipei
With a 10-second delay built in just in case the worst happens, the latest live event from the increasingly sporty streamer has been pitched in many ways as a mash-up spectacle of Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers, Evel Knieval’s career, and Honnold’s own free solo climb of El Capitan in the Oscar winning 2018 documentary of the same name.
Of course, this being high-minded Hollywood, there was and still a timely FU accompanying Honnold’s climb today, intentional or not. As Netflix fends off another attempt by David Ellison’s Paramount to gobble up Warner Bros Discovery, the streamer’s Taipei event would have one day before the much-marketed UFC launch on Paramount+. Labeled with a $7.7 billion payout from Ellison in one of his first big moves after taking over the studio, the debut of Dana White’s Octagon now runs the rare risk of being overshadowed by Honnold’s death defying endeavor.
Now Skyscraper Live and UFC from Sin City will almost go head-to-head.
Ranked as the tallest building in the world for about five years after its 2004 opening, Taipei 101 is now not even in the Top 10. Coming in at Number 11 today, the 1,667 ft tall Tower is dwarfed by Dubai’s 2,722 ft high Burj Khalifa – which has been in the top spot since just after it opened in 2010. Still, the Free Solo star’s efforts