Greg Cox wrote:
But how do you explain the constant remakes of, say, Dracula or The Three Musketeers or Robin Hood or King Arthur or Snow White.
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Those are mostly re-adaptations. I don't think anyone is going to assume JMS's upcoming
Vlad Dracula series referred to here is a remake of Francis Ford Coppola's
Bram Stoker's Dracula, or in any sense legally related to such.
This said?
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They're all public domain, but writers and directors and filmmakers keep wanting to reinvent them, over and over again
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The same level of
name recognition, the value of a property as property, continues to be important. I remember when I was a kid there'd be cheap knockoff cartoons based on whatever subject the latest Disney film was covering (Pocahontas, Hercules, etc.), and then there's recent franchise films like
Snow White & the Huntsman, which slot in rather nicely around the summer's array of blockbuster novel/comic adaptations.