“The Maze Runner” franchise is getting a reboot from the film trilogy’s original producers and a new writer.

  • @Kelly
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    415 months ago

    This feels unnecessary.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Has the final movie even come out yet? I remember watching the first and second but I thought there was supposed to be a third still on the way?

      Feels way too soon for a remake.

  • @Visstix
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    285 months ago

    Nobody even asked for the first one.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      Actually, I sorta did. In 2002 I asked "anybody to produce anything.

      So whenever someone says “No one asked for that”, I kinda did

  • ME5SENGER_24
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    205 months ago

    New from Disney: ANOTHER REBOOT INSTEAD OF ORIGINAL CONTENT!!

      • @Kelly
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        15 months ago

        This strategy has its losses too. The Marvels (-$237m), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (-$143m), and Haunted Mansion (-$117m) all lost them money last year.

        https://lemmy.ml/post/15188346

          • @hardaysknight
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            25 months ago

            Yeah those were definitely Hollywood losses

          • @Kelly
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            25 months ago

            Fair call, combined they report $1.2b in expenses so I’m sure a fair bit got soaked up by Disney subsidiaries and partners.

  • @kippinitreal
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    115 months ago

    Seems like a way to avoid paying the original crew residuals and/or royalties

    • @Kelly
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      85 months ago

      The new film would not be a sequel or a remake, but a “continuation,” with presumably new characters trying to escape from the walled complex known as the Glade.

      If its based on the Maze Runner world but not actually a story from one of the books they probably pay the author a bit less too.

    • @bitwaba
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      5 months ago

      There shouldn’t be any residuals.

      If there is someone out there still consuming this media in a way that generates revenue for the studio giving them reason to believe there is a market for even more Maze Runner content, they should be charged with crimes against humanity.