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ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 21 hours agoWith the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.
There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They understand, but they also understand that when they need to make something new, and the old classic already had a complete story, their best chance to make money is off of something familiar. So not Tom Bombadil, but that’s how we ended up with Solo: A Star Wars Story and every Terminator after 2.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 10 hours ago
They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.
Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Even Terminator 2 changed the time travel rules established in the first movie, but at least it felt like its ideas were still original. And I didn’t even mind Terminator 3.