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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 131 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I’m so fine with them killing off as many franchises as possible. Might force them to make an original movie again.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They will just reboot it pretending it's original

[–] frezik@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Case in point: another Battlestar Galactica reboot is apparently in the works.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I mind that. The last one was pretty good. Not sure about the spinoff as I stopped watching it after two eps maybe.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Caprica spinoff, you mean? It was really slow for most of the season, suddenly picked up at the end and got really good, and then it was canceled.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That was my recollection too. Super slow all the way up to the finale when everything blew up.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that one. Too bad about it.

[–] dwemthy 10 points 2 months ago

This 100%. It's still an IP that they own and when it's brought out of the vault it's new to a bunch of people and nostalgic to others

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Hahaha, good one.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Or just remake even more of the same thing with less diversity overall, like Spider-man & Batman.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Nothing is original, ever. Because everything is a remix

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's funny how people say this, yet when original movies come out, nobody goes to see them. Disney is a good example. People bitch that Disney only makes sequels and reboots and doesn't make original movies anymore. Yet the original movies they've released over the last 2 years have flopped and people don't go see them. Strange worlds, wish, etc all failed. And the moment they release a sequel it makes a billion in the box office.

It's no wonder they make more sequels than originals. They'd be stupid and bad at business if they didn't.

[–] napfkuchen@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But those movies simply weren't good.

Wikipedia even states that Strange World partly bombed because of poor word-of-mouth (which I definitely believe). And Wish got video essays and articles en masse about how it didn't deliver.