Studios Don’t Care What Consumers Want, They’ll Keep Forcing Reboots, Remakes, Etc. On Our Eyes — GeekTyrant

I make and hear the same pleas from people all the time, “stop the reboots, remakes, remasters, adaptations, etc.” It often feels like the only media we get these days are ones recycling or building upon properties. Many beloved shows are getting remakes that a very vocal group are displeased with like Powerpuff, the live-action The Powerpuff Girls show from The CW. Others are being spun-off for other audiences like Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. Those are but two small examples. Does this mean that no one wants to tell original stories anymore?

I hope you already have realized that the answer to that question is no. Now, I’m not going to speak for every artist/creator out there. This is a big generalization that I’m going to be making throughout: artists want and have original stories to tell, executives are too greedy to let them even if they have a good track record.

One example of this is Craig McCracken. This is the brilliant mind behind The Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Kid Cosmic. It was announced a couple of months ago that he’s working on projects related to some of his previous works, but that’s not necessarily what he wanted to do. McCracken shared on Twitter that he pitched 16 original new projects to Netflix, and they shot every one down. That’s ridiculous to me! Kid Cosmic was a crazy amazing show that was on Netflix. Critics (myself included) loved it!