When you write books, plural, do you just want to read them all while not having them influence your own imagination? which i could totally understand. Because otherwise from a spoiler perspective the two movies just adapt the first novel.

I don’t particularly like adaptations in general since most of them are only made to cash in on the popular name. But when something not completely shit is made I like to go into it with having consumed original medium and then be able to compare and speculate the different reasons for the decisions made in the adaptation.

I was under the impression that many large blockbuster productions nowadays have similar sized marketing budgets. Maybe $150m is a bit on the high side for Wicked, but from a quick search Dune Part II also seems like it had a roughly $100m one.

It used to be rare. But with Barbie’s gamble paying off, everyone thinks it’s the winning strategy now. I’m just proving them wrong. :)