Watch the Disney Pixar Lightyear movie trailer The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Disney Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspire...
Like another commenter, I was also born in the mid 90s, so depending on who you ask I’m like the oldest zoomer if anything. But anyway I think because there’s just so much shit to consume these days it was probably inevitable most things would quels/rebootmakes. It’s just safer when media corporations are focused on maximizing profit and trying to catch as many people’s attention as possible.
I feel like you can still find about the same amount of original media we had in earlier decades. It’s only buried under a much larger volume of cynical mass media shit and/or hidden away in more niche “new” media (animation, games, etc). Plus remakes and such aren’t new. Total Recall and Blade Runner were based on short stories. Heston’s Ben-Hur was a remake of a book adaptation. Nolan’s movies are usually originals. Tarantino’s are all original, I think. A lot of the most popular video games that blew up in my lifetime were new things - Pokemon, Minecraft, uh Spyro, Undertale, Splatoon? Anime is another rabbit hole you can comb through sometimes.
I think one of the differences is remakes this days are not so much adapting a previously existing thing, but bringing back something already popular and saying "hey, remember this!" Like when Blade Runner came out i doubt very many people were going "oh shit they're making a Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep adaptation!," and I doubt the producers were advertising it as "hey, remember Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? We've made a movie about that!" The source material was not the source of the advertising or popularity.
Whereas with this, the advertising draws on the source material itself - "hey, remember Toy Story? Remember Buzz Lightyear? Do we have a movie for you!" And so does its popularity - people going to see this movie will be going partly and probably mainly due to the source material.
But idk, this comment isnt deep analysis, just something to think about
Tarantino's movie Jackie Brown is based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch. That's the only time he's adapted anything, unless the Kill Bill movies count where characters from 70s Hong Kong movies show up as if it's all a shared universe.
Like another commenter, I was also born in the mid 90s, so depending on who you ask I’m like the oldest zoomer if anything. But anyway I think because there’s just so much shit to consume these days it was probably inevitable most things would quels/rebootmakes. It’s just safer when media corporations are focused on maximizing profit and trying to catch as many people’s attention as possible.
I feel like you can still find about the same amount of original media we had in earlier decades. It’s only buried under a much larger volume of cynical mass media shit and/or hidden away in more niche “new” media (animation, games, etc). Plus remakes and such aren’t new. Total Recall and Blade Runner were based on short stories. Heston’s Ben-Hur was a remake of a book adaptation. Nolan’s movies are usually originals. Tarantino’s are all original, I think. A lot of the most popular video games that blew up in my lifetime were new things - Pokemon, Minecraft, uh Spyro, Undertale, Splatoon? Anime is another rabbit hole you can comb through sometimes.
I think one of the differences is remakes this days are not so much adapting a previously existing thing, but bringing back something already popular and saying "hey, remember this!" Like when Blade Runner came out i doubt very many people were going "oh shit they're making a Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep adaptation!," and I doubt the producers were advertising it as "hey, remember Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? We've made a movie about that!" The source material was not the source of the advertising or popularity.
Whereas with this, the advertising draws on the source material itself - "hey, remember Toy Story? Remember Buzz Lightyear? Do we have a movie for you!" And so does its popularity - people going to see this movie will be going partly and probably mainly due to the source material.
But idk, this comment isnt deep analysis, just something to think about
Tarantino's movie Jackie Brown is based on the 1992 novel Rum Punch. That's the only time he's adapted anything, unless the Kill Bill movies count where characters from 70s Hong Kong movies show up as if it's all a shared universe.