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"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
Today in Hollywood unoriginality, producers Ian McCue and Micaela Winter are making a move that will delight all the millions of children who have been complaining that there aren't enough female tank engines on television. Wait, what?
Thomas & Friends' makeover includes two new female main characters
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-...in-characters/
Fate takes some amazing twists and turns. It seems the Sugarbaker women had daughters.....and the daughters now work at the same Atlanta interior design firm where their mothers worked. Wow. Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
Designing Women reboot lands at ABC
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...bc-1143195?utm
There are airbenders, earthbenders, firebenders and waterbenders. It seems there are also unoriginality-benders. The 2005-08 animated series that spawned a 2010 movie is being remade as a live-action series.
Netflix is turning Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender into a live-action series
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ne...vIfQ?ocid=AMZN
Dutch Engstrom: "We won't have to worry about Deke Thornton." Pike Bishop: "Hell, no, not after ridin' half a case o' dynamite into the river." Sykes: "Well, don't expect him to stay there. He'll be along -- and you know it." And may I add that another movie remake will be along -- and you know it. Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
Mel Gibson to co-write and direct The Wild Bunch remake at Warner Bros.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ATIy?ocid=AMZN
Toy Story 4 will be released June 21, 2019. Who wants to make a prediction about a Toy Story 5?
Tim Allen says Toy Story 4 is 'so emotional' he 'couldn't even get through the last scene
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...Hl4W?ocid=AMZN
"Hey, listen up, you guys. Since 1957, the Sharks and the Jets have been the only gangs in this neighborhood -- but now a new gang is movin' in. They're the Remakers and their leader is some guy named Spielberg." Today in Hollywood unoriginality:
Ansel Elgort to star in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of West Side Story
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...OvtJ?ocid=AMZN
"Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight.....When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again." Yes, and we shall also have more remakes and reboots.
Netflix to develop series, films based on C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles Of Narnia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...SBTc?ocid=AMZN
Hey, Disney, good luck finding a blue, big-eared, four-armed alien! "Meega nala kweesta!"
Lilo & Stitch live-action remake in the works at Disney
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...TfOC?ocid=AMZN
Hey, Disney, good luck finding a mutt and a cocker spaniel who can slurp spaghetti!
Janelle Monáe joins Disney's Lady & The Tramp remake
https://filmschoolrejects.com/janell...-tramp-remake/
Here is the latest candidate for "remake of the year":
Fox plots Rookie Of The Year remake with Dan Gregor on the mound
https://deadline.com/2018/10/rookie-...nd-1202479812/