"I used to be in the military. Used to do field work for the CIA. I've been to some horrible places. I've seen some pretty terrible things." Hey, Jack, we have seen some pretty terrible things as well. They're called prequels, sequels, reboots and remakes.
24 prequel series tracing Jack Bauer's origin story is in the works at Fox
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/24...hxSf?ocid=AMZN
Salem, the black cat in the Sabrina The Teenage Witch comic books and 1996-2003 tv series, has nine lives. Thanks to prequels, sequels, reboots and remakes, everybody can have nine (or more) lives.
Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina premieres October 26 on Netflix
http://ew.com/tv/2018/07/29/chilling...premiere-date/
There have already been two sequels to the 1993 movie The Sandlot and now there's going to be a prequel. Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan is probably screaming, "No, no!"
The Sandlot prequel in the works at Fox
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...kKnV?ocid=AMZN
"Hey, Willie, I may be coming back to television! Gimme four! Hah!"
ALF reboot in development at Warner Bros. Television
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/alf...tv-1202892541/
Dora The Explorer is a seven-year-old Latina but in the movie version she's aged ten years! I guess the producers want to ensure that millions of teenaged boys will want to see the movie.
Dora The Explorer movie begins production
https://deadline.com/2018/08/dora-th...st-1202443778/
We call them reboots, remakes, prequels and sequels. The movie industry lumps them all in the category of "franchises." Christopher McKittrick, an author, entertainment reporter and former editor of Creative Screenwriting magazine, explains why sequels -- pardon me, franchises -- are becoming increasingly unpopular:
The causes of movie franchise fatigue
Why have audiences been losing interest in movie franchises?
https://www.thoughtco.com/movie-fran...atigue-4145400
A movie or television series can be -- ahem -- as old as the hills and there will still be remakes, reboots and sequels. Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
MTV reboots The Hills with original cast members
The Hills: New Beginnings is slated for 2019.
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the...tv-1202911336/
The "marshmallow" returneth. Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
Veronica Mars revival starring Kristen Bell is in the works at Hulu
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ve...ghDA?ocid=AMZN
It was strange seeing two different Darrens on Bewitched. Now we're going to have a third Darren -- or fourth, if you count the 2005 movie. Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
ABC to reboot Bewitched with interracial family
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/be...luRD?ocid=AMZN
Today in Hollywood unoriginality, we have yet another animated series starring the different-colored bears who live in the cloud community of Care-a-Lot. Sorry, I don't care. At all.
Care Bears reboot headed to Boomerang
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...htmlstory.html
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