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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Honeymooners, Bewitched...
We're loooking at you.
LOL that's great. I wonder if it's just that hard to be creative or if the execs are just too friggin' lazy to come up with something fresh.
At least with Bewitched they have gone quite creative, the movie isn't a direct movie version of the old series, but a movie about making a movie version of the old series!
I actually don't mind the rehashes myself, and it isn't entirely about a lack of creativity. It is becoming quite hard to come up with original stories as so much as been written throughout the centuries. I have got into that trouble before, written something that I thought was really original and then that week finding an almost exact copy of my story already out there! Since there is that trouble, then when they do come up with scripts that are quite close to old concepts, then it is usually wise in a marketing-sense to just buy the rights of the old story as then you will already have an existing market and less needs to be spent on getting your story into the public's faces. If it wasn't an old series, then it will be an old book adaption or simply a sequel.
Had Hidden Fortress been more popular in America then I'm sure that Star Wars would have ended up being marketed as 'Hidden Fortress in Space!'.
