I swear, I just need to take a lead pipe to Hollywood's collective knees.

[yendi]

Why?

The best part of the article, of course, is the part where they talk about "Oscar-winning writer/producer Akiva Goldman." It's like referring to "NFL MVP Ryan Leaf" or "Grammy-winning singer William Hung." Except, you know, Goldman actually somehow won his award.

Related: Daredevil is being rebooted. By the subliterate typewriter lemur behind the awful The Day the Earth Stood Still remake.

Screw it. Let's just greenlight the Avatar and Sherlock Holmes reboots now. Apparently we really do have that short a collective attention span.

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[popfiend.livejournal.com]

At the end of the article, they mention Daredevil is being remade so the studio doesn't lose rights. I suspect a lot of the reboots are about not losing rights to intellectual property.

Previously, they might have been willing to let things go, but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

[yendi]

True. That said, it seems like a rather silly and money-sinking reason.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

"Screw it. Let's just greenlight the Avatar and Sherlock Holmes reboots now. Apparently we really do have that short a collective attention span."
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If you need a classic but modern, deservedly cynical textbook
reference, focusing on hollywood's inability or unwillingness to
produce hardly anything resembling a *film* anymore, for the phrase
"nothing surprises me anymore" the above fits beautifully :)

[blergeatkitty.livejournal.com]

Ryan Leaf's grandparents are friends with my parents. I think I may have met him once or twice when we were kids. Brushes with dubious fame - it's fun to have them!

[photognome.livejournal.com]

In other sad news, a Highlander reboot is being planned. And will be directed by the guy who's two previous films were "Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift" and "Fast & Furious"...

[tablesaw]

Hollywood just needs to drop the word reboot. It'd gotten so hot that they're using it for everything. If Batman Forever were being made today, they'd call it a reboot. Every time there's a new Bond, now, they're going to call it a reboot.

Franchises do not need continuity, guys. Not all McDonalds are participating McDonalds.

[idonotlikepeas]

I'm waiting for them to reboot a superhero, then partway through the movie, start over and reboot again. It'll be like the book of Genesis with more asskicking.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

Hey, our attention span is- OH MY GOSH A FORMER POLITICAL FIGURE HAS AN OPINION I BETTER SEE WHAT IT IS REALLY QUICK.

Where was I now?

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

The Solution is NOT to give them your money by going to see it.

And not to buy the DVD new if there is something in your mind that insists you have to see what they've done to it later on.

Used DVDs do not feed their sales machines. People who buy new ones or tickets do.

It may not have significant effect, but it can give you a warm fuzzy feeling that you've not given the bastards a penny for their shlock.