07 - When do we get new films?

07 - When do we get new films?

For years the film industry have been reusing the same ideas again and again, when will they give us something original?

The new film "Pan" has just had it's premier this week and even I can see it's just another retelling of an old story. With films like Cinderella from earlier this year and the new jungle book in the near future, it is giving people the impression that the film industry are out of ideas. There are a few ways in which they do this:

01 - Do a complete restart

This is a constant issue. It's becoming more and more popular to remake a franchise in a whole new way. They did this with films such as total recall and fantastic four. they think that changing tiny details to an idea will make it a lot better. It. Doesn't. Work. Nobody sits there and thinks that the new total recall is amazing compared to the original (to be fair, nobody thinks either of the fantastic four series are amazing). If a film is great, don't redo it. If a film is terrible, it'll probably be terrible next time round.

02 - Add pointless sequels years later

I think the best example of this is Disney. Lets look at the evidence:

Incredibles 2

Cars 3

Finding Dory

Star Wars vii

Star wars viii

Star wars ix

Need I go on? Why add to a franchise which most of your target audience barely know? It sickened me when I heard a child ask what the incredibles was. You missed your window Disney. We all grew up. 

03 - Spin off's based around minor character

Another category Disney is important to mention in. They have done this a few times with results that nobody remember. Do you remember the emperors new groove? Not everyone does, but does anyone remember Kronks new groove? I highly doubt it. Kronk was just a pointless sidekick who didn't deserve a film based around him, but he got one anyway cause disney like every opportunity in which they can gain money.

04 - The change the category of the film

Disney is here as well. They are in the middle of taking their classic animated films and turning them into live action versions. Some stick very similar to the story like Cinderella, but others like Maleficent take a different approach. Either way, people already know how it ends and quite frankly, the animated Cinderella had awesome talking mice

05 - Do what Michael Bay does

I can't stress how ridiculous I find this man. Whether they were his ideas or not, but he manages to attach his names to projects that are based off ideas that are not necessary. He managed to make four films from Transformers! A tv show my parents used to watch!! And now he is trying it with ninja turtles! This technique is something I have nicknamed "Baywolfing" in which Michael bay takes ideas that are practically dead and spins them into a new film franchise! They did the same thing with Alvin and the Chipmunks not that long ago and that went great! For some reason "Baywolfing" is the way to make films

 

So once we get through the rebooting, endless sequels and all the Baywolfing, will we get a new film idea then? I hope so! Just as long as Michael Bay doesn't direct it, I'm sure it will be fine!!