The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[Jayson1]

Okay I saw the video. So that brings up the other option. A voice impersonator that sort of sounds like him?

 

[Owain Taggart]

Ridley Scott says they're in the process of making Gladiator III, whatever that means. Don't know why the studio would want to make another one after the box office failure of the (unnecessary) sequel. And it's not like they'd need to make it to appease a red hot director (Tarantino, Villeneuve, Nolan) so they can make other movies with him.

My guess is contractual obligations. Studios will often sign multiple movie deals with directors. And much easier to make something with an active IP than it is to start a new one or deal with an inactive IP. They already have everything in place due to the last one. So by letting him make another sequel, they fulfill part of their obligations with him.

We used to call those pilots

Why do they bother to create several episodes before knowing how they'll be received by the fans of the original show?

They're now called tax writeoffs!

But yeah, now instead of pilots, they seem to make entire seasons before they know shows will be a success.

Unrelated, but Netflix just got updated on my end to the new UI and oh god, it's a horrible mess. I thought the previous version was bad, but this takes the cake. It feels slower and harder to find what you're looking for. The current selection takes up a huge portion of the screen while you're trying to browse.

 

[Takeru]

Before they bring back old shows for a season, they should create single-episode specials to gauge interest.

For old shows a much easier and cheaper way to gauge interest is to look online. I don't think producing a one off special would tell them much more because even if the ratings are through the roof that still won't guarantee a continuing show would have similar success. A special is a one time event and people are more likely to turn on their tv once for that than they are doing it regularly.

But yeah, now instead of pilots, they seem to make entire seasons before they know shows will be a success.

Even in the old days they went into production before they knew if the show would be a success and were usually 6 weeks ahead of airing. With how short seasons are these days that's almost the entire season anyway and for effects heavy shows with a long post production there's pretty much no way to air episodes before the entire season is finished.