Hollywood Movies are Not Original Anymore: Remakes and Live Action are The New Focus

Remaking popular movies or creating live actions of well-known animated movies has become the norm in Hollywood. The originality of film is becoming lost. This is a problem amongst creativity and it’s running rampant in the ongoing film scene.

If we were to go back 10-20 years in Hollywood, there was always a new movie with a unique storyline coming out. New storylines in films were a frequent thing and movies were exciting. Now, the only excitement we are getting from movies is seeing our favorite characters return to the theaters 20 years later.

Winona Ryder came back for Beetlejuice 2. Freakier Friday is being filmed. Mean Girls the Musical was released recently, and a new Batman/Joker adaptation is made almost every 5 years.

Although these movies are exciting, it gets boring when most new movies have already been seen before. It feels as though Hollywood is running out of original movie ideas and clinging to older movies for hope.

Why is this happening and when will it end?

“The DVD was a huge part of our revenue,” Matt Damon said in an interview on the “Hot Ones” talk show, “With the movies that we used to make; you could afford to not make all your money in the theater.”

One easy way to bring an audience to the theater is to remake a popular movie with a large fanbase. Fans will rave about the new characters and how the storyline will continue.

Remaking a character in 100 different ways also will have fans racing to the theaters to see if this new version is any better than the last. These movies usually are worse than the original, but the money is the bottom line for Hollywood.

Another thing that goes along with remakes is reusing the same actors repeatedly. New faces could create new ideas and better movies. It’s hard to have creativity when it’s the same people making the same movies all the time.

Movies such as Grown-Ups and 500 Days of Summer were unique with interesting plot lines and that’s a rarity now in the film industry. Adding new people could possibly bring movies like this back into Hollywood, which is needed.

Creativity has been lost in the art of film and blockbuster movies are losing their spark. It feels like every movie has been made and there are no new ideas left. Could this signal the end of film altogether?