Remake: The live action
You may consider it pessimistic, but i do not consider mainstream western entertainment capable of doing anything even close to decent anymore; especially if it comes to doing something with established works. Nowadays whenever you read about a new entry, or a remake, remaster, live-action, etc, you just wait for the inevitable moment when you will see news that they’re changing everything for “modern sensibilities”; that the writer they hired is some hyper activist who hates men and white people, the fans of the ip or even the ip itself; that they’re going to race, sexuality and sex-swap every single character; that they’re going to inject modern politics and make the story somehow about Trump or whatever is the popular issue of the month that the american woke activism wants to push; that they’re going to change the costumes because we cannot allow a woman looks pretty under our new religion; that the new product will “adress its problematic past”; that the protagonist now will be “feminist” (code for a mary sue who will belittle men); on whatever combination of those, if not all at once.
Western entertainment is at this point so invaded and dependant on woke politics that they simply cannot do a good product, because everything they do is surrogated to having to fill quotas, “owning the chuds” and making woke activists happy. Making a good story or characters is completely secondary, and in fact almost impossible when you have to avoid so many minefields and check so many boxes. There’s barely room to write anything different or interesting when everything has to be the exact same casualized, sanitized product under the lens of wokenism. And this will continue because as they use the weight of pre-existing popular works, they will succeed monetarily and give the illusion that going woke works, when those products are working despite being woke.
This was one of my main reasons for being against wokeness in entertainment when this discussion arised, like almost a decade ago, because i predicted a future where everything would be so constrained by who you can’t offend and the boxes you have to check that writing and characters would go to fucking shit. And i was, unfortunately, totally right.
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I’m not sure about “THEN”, either. “Live Action” could mean “Uwe Boll”.
Not even this, at least beyond one step. “Kings Cameleopard” is a surprise to anyone at most once. And in cases like Fembusters, not even once.
They don’t try to sell it to the old fans. Quite the opposite. And don’t even make a secret of it. Like with Soy Wars: “real fans are oldthinkers who unbellyfeel, we throw poo at them! Here! A few screwed up reylos welcome, inane fetishists make a good vocal minority to supplement obvious shills”. It’s quite demonstrative: disneystarwarsisdumb.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/lucasfilm-reps-drink-fanboy-tears/
The vermis even launched outrages preemptively a few times, and just made shit up when there are no real squabbles, like “black stormtrooper” thing. freebeacon.com/blog/there-is-no-black-stormtrooper-controversy/
Obviously, everyone knows the assets are being burned, once this starts.
“Kill it, eat it, wear its skin until it falls apart” became business-as-usual long ago. Because enough of those who stand in the way are either oblivious being too busy with their last thing (like Lucas or Eich) or cowardly yes-creatures (managers). Thus the vermin thrives.
That’s been going on a long time, TBeholder. Forty years ago Robert Iger, Alan Bergman, Michael Eisner, and Jeffrey Katzenberg killed Walt Disney Studios, gutted it, and have been wearing its skin as a suit ever since, producing ever more egregious outrageous insults, from Gay Days to hideous woketarded Marvel comics, to the public.
They have nothing for contempt for the people who continue paying for their belligerently mediocre, PC, pinkwashed products because they have some vague Sunday-supplement memory of good ol’ Walt drawing Mickey Mouse with a fountain pen and are under the very mistaken impression that Walt isn’t spinning in his grave and the Usual Suspects haven’t attached a generator to his feet to power the projectors, right beside Stan Lee, C. S. Lewis, and A. A. Milne.
And if you look at those names and hear the delicate footsteps of the Red Sea Pedestrians, oy vey! Dat’s anti-semitic!
Long time indeed. As far as Itchy could find, the castrated remakes along with the entire “Geeker Gate” process started with Battlestar Galactica in 2004. https://disneystarwarsisdumb.wordpress.com/2018/09/16/all-of-this-happened-15-years-ago/
Obviously, there were precursors to the $CURRENT_YEAR -compliant remakes, from Soviet version of Pinoccio to such as Disney drowning fairy tales in saccharine drool (and those now “need” more remakes, of course… lol). But seeing how fairy tales were in public domain and preaching was not so in-your-face yet, the old style Disney drool didn’t cause massive financial losses, and as such didn’t require pointing anywhere to distract from the sight of shareholders being screwed over in broad daylight.