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Avatar is cursed for remakes like Fantastic Four (lemmy.world)
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[–] 161 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think the main problem is that they keep inviting the original creators, they sign on, the studio heads explain to the creators how the studio has figured out how to tweak things, creators say "your ideas are horrible and if you execute on them as you've described, everyone is going to hate it". The studio's refuse to budge, creators depart citing creative differences, studio gets their way. Is a steaming pile of shit. Rinse and repeat.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I heard the reason they left this time was because the showrunners wanted to basically recreate the series, and the original creators were like, “but.. we did already made that series. Let’s make something new”.

    Could be false though, because I don’t understand how they’d get so attached to the project knowing that it was supposed to be a live action remake from the start…

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So basically, show runners wanted to make Scott pilgrim vs the world while the OGs wanted to make Scott pilgrim takes off

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Haha yeah exactly! Maybe that’s why they got attached originally. Perhaps they thought they could redo parts they were unhappy with or show new perspectives and storylines.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago*

    “but… we already made that series. Let’s make something new”.

    And I think that was actually the best call possible when adapting an animated show to live action. You know, do something crazy, kill Aang in the first episode. Write an alternate universe where Sokka becomes a cartoon level dictator. Show the story entirely from the point of view of Suki and the Kyoshi warriors joining the war against the Fire Nation, or a prequel from the point of view of the Order of the White Lotus searching for, setting up plots or trying to find the Avatar during the interim 100 years of Aang's absence. Almost anything else would've made for an extraordinary new creative addition to the universe, and would've been a more palatable translation from animated to live action. But all Netflix executives are creatively bankrupt.

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