Franchises, every studio wants one. A marketable franchise can ensure a studio a sellable product for many years to come. A chance greenlight for a film about four guys in Vegas for a bachelor party can turn into a three movie arc worth hundreds of millions. Spend a hundred million on a remake of a movie about a mummy and lose big. Relaunching a franchise is a safer bet than conceded to an orginal idea.
There’s a Sicaro universe in addition to this summer’s Jurassic Park remakequel; a Star Wars indulgence no one desires, and a gender reassigned Ocean’s film franchise? All decent films with a problem of repetitiveness and storylines written to save the franchise and not develop characters. Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom and Ocean’s 8, these stories are not organic. The characters in both films are stymed to ensure a specific outcome which pervents character arcs to be determined by the results of the various consequences and circumstance presented within the story.
Jurassic World: Kingdom is weighed down heavily by a story that went way off the grid of believability, but conforms to the beloved moments of the first film, Jurassic Park.
This is the same story over and over again without the risks of adding something new and different to the formula. If it worked twenty years ago, it’s sure to work again on a younger more ignorant audience. But how about us older Gen-Xers and older non conforming millennials who loved the first Jurassic Park (and likely read the books), who, like me, don’t want to see the same story schtick played over and over every other year? review
With a cast of eight actresses and the potential to breath new life into this forgotten franchise, Ocean’s 8 failed to create a better version of the original film by sticking to the Soderbergh heist movie formula.
I hate to say it’s all about the Benjamins, but it is all about the Benjamins. Adapting preexisting franchises is less risky than spending massive amounts of money to sell original stories to an unpredictable audience. For Jurassic World, we got a remakequel of Jurassic Park. Same goes for Force Awakens, an almost beat by beat retelling of Star Wars. Ghostbusters got an all-female makeover, so why not take the bro-est heist film since Heat and remake Oceans 11, subtracted by three?
Sicario, is new to the franchise market, but can it survive as a profitable film series to a story that needed no sequel?
This new cinematic universe takes us over the border and into Mexico’s underbelly of Cartels, corruption, and U.S. politics. Great premise, however, Day of the Soldado was more focused on the continuance of the series than the importance of telling a complete story. By saving the “hero” at the end, it’s clearly evident what was at heart of this film release– the next movie.
I blame tween novels, and the social media experience.
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