• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      Recycling scripts and dragging 80 year old actors out of retirement makes for cheaper SEO and a higher gross from millennials/boomers.

      New shit is risky, which means lower yield into the next quarter.

      Also, copywriter/contract laws require media to use it or lose it. So you’re going to get an X-Men movie every five years whether you like it or not.

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        Copyright is NOT use it or lose it. Franchising licensing contracts might occasionally have such terms but that’s not the primary reason, these companies just don’t like risk

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          Franchising licensing contracts might occasionally have such terms

          X-Men and Spiderman both revert to Marvel if they aren’t used… I want to say every five years.

          Fantastic Four was acquired by Disney in '19, so that one is a moot point.

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    Oppenheimer: A man intertwined with US nuclear policy, both when creating the first nuke, and during the cold war. Political intrigue mixed with science!

    Execs: “What if it had a sex scene?”

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      What if we had a sex scene in the middle of a board meeting?

      Every member of the executive board high fiving and wolf whistling

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    Doesn’t help that sex keeps being written into shows where it doesn’t belong.

    It’s trying to make a show “more adult” in literally the most childish way possible.

    That Halo show is a good example of completely needless sex scenes.