LOL, Vass!
Here's the deal: This is the next step of the old Hollywood tradition, whereby, if some (goofy, weird, unique) movie is successful, then
EXPLOIT it!! Send in the clones!!
I had a buddy years ago, who was an heir to a family production company in Hollywood (Taurus Entertainment). I'd hang out 'cause I liked him, sometimes I'd do some work for them, and he'd ALWAYS take me out to some incredible place for lunch
and pick up the tab, too!
So many was the time some wanna-be Producer would walk in to pitch a script, and they were without exception, the most blinkered, cloth-eared stupid jerks you could imagine.
Creativity?? ZERO. Exploiting something that's
already made its (ONE-TIME) bones? Absolutely!
Here's one I still remember vividly: The guy is going for the gold....
"Well, this little screamer is half RAMBO and half FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, plus...."
He thinks he's getting us into a frenzy, now....
" A HUNDRED PERCENT THELMA and LOUISE!!! We'll get the militaristic lesbian crowd with this, plus it's a SUSPENSE FILM!!"
My gosh, how could we go wrong, eh!
At lunch, Robert and I were total jerks, laughing ourselves sick at a really trendy place, recalling what this poor dumb jerk had said.
I believe that guy is running Sega Genesis, now.
This is how it works.
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