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Originally Posted by LenMiyata  Grumble Grumble Grumble
One of the issues that have been driving this trend is the cost of producing a Hollywood blockbuster, easily a cool one hundred million dollars or more. (In comparision, the cost of the first 'Star Wars' movie was in the neighborhood of twelve and half million dollars...) Production studios and Venture Capitalist live in fear of the next experimental disaster (e.g. 'Water World') and as a result, don't want to take the risk of funding something new and different, (such as the proposed live action EVA movie) and want to stick to the same tried and true formulas... |
Len's exactly right. It's much safer to stick with sequels and known successes (such as books) then it is to create new concepts. Mind you, we do get new movies every year. Loot at Cars and Over the Hedge. Some of the concepts were recycled but they were itlesat new movies not based on previous works.
The video game industry has the same problem. It now costs so much to build a game world from the ground up that producers will plan on buiding sequels into the franchise just to help lower development costs.
George Lucas just announced that he was getting out of the movie making business...itleast for the big screen movies. For the cost of 1 star wars big buget movie he could make 20 - 30 made for TV 2 hour movies. And he'd probably see more profit to boot!