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From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
In article ,
Merrick Baldelli wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:13:42 -0700, Anim8rFSK
> wrote:
>
> >But we aren't talking brains, and we're barely talking people; we're
> >talking producers.
>
> Ha ha ha ha... This is only going to go downhill from here...
> I can tell and it doesn't take much to mark it as such.
>
> >The reason the whole 'remake tv shows' genre came up in the first place
> >is that if you'd try to sell something original to a producer, he'd
> >always rephrase it in terms of "it's like..."
>
> There's another reason why... It's also based on how
> conservative producers can be as well. If the idea's too new, they
> often look at it as a sort of "high risk to failure" which then causes
> then to shun it out of hand.
You're going to make me analyze the process aren't you?
You've got multiple windows. "Brand spanking new, beat 'em to the
punch" is okay, which is why you have half a dozen lame ass "War of the
Worlds" come out *before* Speilberg's ultra lame ass version, even
though they're in response to it. Same notation for any Disney flick,
like all the Frog movies out right now - see Richie Rich's entire career.
But once the inpiration is out, you hit the window you described above.
Then once it's aged awhile, it opens up again, and you end up at:
>
> It's a Scylla and Carbides moment, where the lesser of the two
> evils is re-working something that had prior success than make
> something uncertain with no guaranteed chance thereof.
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