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INDEXSequels, Prequels, Spin-offs...
1 year, 5 months ago - George Wright
I've just read that 'This is Spinal Tap' is having a sequel made, and I'm not sure why...!
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/spinal-tap-sequel-starts-shooting-with-elton-john-and-paul-mccartney-to-cameo/
Most films getting made appear to be sequels, prequels, or spin-offs, based on some pre-existing IP, etc.
What are your thoughts on this?!
This is utterly confusing to me as a writer, who is *determined* to get fresh material commissioned. Do audiences not want new content? So disheartening.
'This is Spinal Tap' is awesome. It's good to see that it's the same director, Rob Reiner, directing the sequel... But I just can't help but roll my eyes at yet another sequel being made.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
George
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1 year, 4 months ago - Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
Surely you've noticed that studio movies since JAWS and STAR WARS (and popular music since the early 1990s) are not made now by people who are emotionally invested in a project to the point of obsession but by accountants, MBAs, etc. who plug elements into an algorithm that regurgitates retrospective perspectives, and first tier greenlights who have memorized Blake Snyder, Robert McKee, Sid Field and John Truby etc. and have a studio checklist of tickboxes for the scripts they read, but no human feelings or human investment or real influence if a script does not meet studio metrics.
Make your own films! Perhaps like you can become an artisan name filmmaker like Chris Nolan (who borrowed equipment from Raindance on the weekends to make his first feature, FOLLOWING, a brilliant film that got a little traction in the US and zero in the UK), and you, too, can add yet another hyphen to your CV. Nolan went from British filmmaker to British-AMERICAN filmmaker, a rather subtle indictment me thinks.
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1 year, 4 months ago - George Wright
All very true! Thanks
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1 year, 4 months ago - Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
;)!
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1 year, 4 months ago - Ellin Stein
It's not about what audiences will respond to, it's about corporate timidity. If a studio commissions an original project and it tanks, heads will roll. If a studio commissions a new project based on a proven IP, the execs who recommended it can say "yes but it was based on X which was such a huge success and it had all this proven talent attached. Nobody could have foreseen..."
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1 year, 4 months ago - Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
:)!
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