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Remakes, spin-offs and sequels have been a part of the movie industry since its beginning and while I am not saying that every reboot or spin-off is trash, the ever growing number of news on planned reboots and spin-offs (mostly in the comic book adaptation sector) did become somewhat of a nuisance, especially when they are utterly unnecessary! To me a remake would make sense if it concerns a previous movie, or film series, that showed creative potential but wasn’t executed well. If a new writer or director shows interest in giving that project the necessary creative quality to make it great, I would be fine with it.
Sadly, the reality looks very different. Studios recruit smaller or unknown directors and put them on their payroll and it is these regisseurs who obtain those projects, when a studio boss looks at previous successful motion-pictures and wants to recreate their past glory by milking the franchise a little more. Most of the times those projects end up being abomination of the originals e.g. Terminator Genisys. At times though, there is a glimpse of light and studios hire relatively new directors that turn out to have a talent for movie making and writing, as was the case with Christopher Nolan and the American remake of Insomnia.
Of course this is not always the case, as directors also approach studios specifically with the wish to get the chance to make a new and “creatively different” adaptation of a previous triumphant movie. This happened when the horrible Point Break remake directed by Ericson Core, who pitched the idea to Warner Bros.
Although not having concrete proof, the timeline seems to suggest that the exploding number of planned remakes and reboots of movie and TV franchises are a side effect of the superhero hysteria, which also rebooted a number of franchises; either as a stand alone series, such as The Dark Knight Trilogy that successfully brought back Batman to the silver screen (and is one of my favourite movie trilogies), or to include them into an interconnected film universe, as was the original idea with Sony’s Amazing-Spider-Man project that was supposed to reboot the Web-Slinger’s franchise and create a bigger and connected movie universe a-la Marvel’s Avengers.
So what is my point?
The problem that plagues Hollywood reboots these days is that studios look at the passed success of movies and decide that they want to cash on it again, by re-selling the product to a new generation and hope to drive the group of people that saw the original into theatres, due to a nostalgic factor. Remakes that featured prominent figures such as Batman and Spiderman were successful because the previous movies were successful (even if the last instalments sucked). Those movies will rather be funded and green lit by the studios, no matter how bad the script or the ideas are and that hurts the power the original work had, because it diminishes its value.
On the other hand we have brilliantly directed and scripted remakes, such as the 2012 Dredd who re-imagined the character from the terrible 1995 adaptation, which performed poorly at the box-office. Those movies get little faith by the Hollywood bosses and are therefore minimally funded, because they are expected to underperform. Another example is this year's Deadpool, which obtained a mere $58 million for a budget. The difference is that the test-footage was leaked and flooded the Internet, creating positive buzz for the movie and later on, a lot of the budget was used to market the movie to gather more interest. This turned Deadpool into a unique low-budget remake with a big outcome.
Still, the success of Deadpool is being treated with care by the Hollywood studios, who would rather opt at funding a new mediocre script of a past success, than a marvellous new take on a past failure. Disney figured this out early with it’s live-action remake of 101 Dalmatians in 1996 and now a handful of classic animations are being planned on being rebooted as live action films, e.g. Maleficent (2013) Cinderella (2015), The Jungle Book (2016), Pete’s Dragon (2016), Beauty & the Beast (which has no release date yet) and Dumbo. If you don’t believe me take a look at the remakes that are being planned, for the next couple of years:
- The Ghostbusters (coming out this year)
- Memento (Nolan’s fantastic debut)
- Big Trouble in Little China (a Kurt Russell cult-classic)
- Escape from New York (another Kurt Russell cult-classic)
- The Birds (Michael Bay is attached to the remake, do I need to say more?)
- MacGyver (with planned TV & Movie remake)
- Cube (a cult-classic sci-fi horror)
- Jumanji
- Men in Black (with the third movie mere four years ago)
- A Nightmare on Elmstreet (Again!!!)
These are just ten of the many movies that are lined up, to be taken apart, reassembled and repackaged for a new generation to enjoy.
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