I know you like to make everything we discuss being exclusively a Disney problem, but this isn't isolated to just the remakes or even Disney. Consumers have access to more content than any time in the history of media, and a lot of it is very forgettable shortly after its been consumed. The average human brain doesn't have the capacity to remember all the content released today let alone what released 5-6 years ago. Disney with the remakes tries to rely on nostalgia to cut through all the noise, but even that is getting drowned out as we can see.
Because people like what people like. The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast both grossed $500 million domestic. The Lion King made took in $1.6 billion world wide on a $260 million production cost and BatB grossed $1.2 billion costing $160 million to make. And I'm certainly not an expert on the remakes, but as best I can tell, these two stuck the closest to their originals.
That is a factor yes, but you have to look beyond just the monetary part for these individual films. The idea with these remakes is not to just make X amount on remake movie Y, its to introduce and in some cases reinvent a franchise for a new generation. The original movie is still there for those that enjoy it, but it doesn't have the same nostalgia factor for new generations coming up today that are sometimes 30+ years removed from the source. Because if you can get a next generations hooked on the remake that becomes the nostalgia that fuels revenue for decades to come way beyond what an individual film can bring in.
I would cease making it “about disney” if about 5 cherished posters wouldn’t splain away every mistake or questionable judgment on their part…
And no one is going to take your charter membership card to the "Iger must go" club if you didn't make every post about Disney.
QUESTION: How do you "introduce a franchise for a new generation" and "get the next generation hooked on the remake"?
That is your take on it, but that is not the only or even ultimate answer. As not everything can get shot for shot remakes for a variety of reasons, least of which being the common response given by many here "If its a shot for shot remake why do you need it in the first place".
Good luck with the original Snow White lol.
Well, the company has certainly chosen to go a different way. Let's see how it works out for them and then we'll be able to tell if my recommendation was better than their plan.
Well since none of us here are seemingly in a decision making position within TWDC, we're all just armchair quarterbacking without any real skin in the game. So its easy to just sit back and snipe from the cheap seats, its a lot harder to be in the game actually making the calls.
It's really easy to snipe when they make decisions like replacing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Snow White and the Seven Magical Creatures. Or turning Snow White into a resistance fighter.
How many decisions have you made on behalf of the WDC?
Seems that was just some silly conspiracy theory. There are dwarfs in the trailers.
Except that hasn't ever been confirmed to have been the real original plan for the story of the remake, just some rumor from a hack tabloid site. And even more isn't what is actually being released. So in this case the sniping is not even warranted.
That's what you're going with? That the magical creatures nonsense was a conspiracy theory?
It set the release of the film back a year and undoubtedly caused the production budget to balloon (re-shoots). And it prevented them from using human actors in the lead roles.
Right that’s the stuff from the hack tabloid site. I forgot some of it.
I’m confused. As opposed to using robot actors?
Which hack tabloid site?