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To: redgolum
It is because failed writers would rather steal someone’s else’s IP than create their own.

No. These properties are owned by corporations. Writers are hired by those corporations to do what they're told. It's almost impossible to sell a new spec project and has been for the last decade, at least. These decisions are made by bean counters who figure that they can make a return on investment with less risk on a mediocre franchise film that will have a built-in audience they can calculate, rather than spending that same investment on a new idea that nobody knows.

30 posted on 10/27/2020 3:07:59 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I agree to a point.

However look at the example of Star Wars. A great IP. Huge sandbox to play in. Yet the director set about destroying it and was successful.

Something like the MCU was very successful, but I expect it to be trashed by some writer who wants a gay disabled trans super hero and gets handed Firestorm as their character.


42 posted on 10/27/2020 3:46:07 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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