Who cares if Khan Noonien Singh was supposed to be a genetic superman from northern India? We’ll turn him into a thin white dude instead. And we’ll have Spock hook up with Uhura, no pon farr required. Talk about a multiverse of madness. But casual fans won’t notice or won’t care, and there’s money to be made!
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I firmly believe that reboots are bad for us. They’re the empty calories of entertainment: all sugar and not much nutrition. … Why bother to put any effort into a story when all you have to do is recycle something that’s already been done? You just need enough money to buy or repackage an old idea, then churn it out in endless permutations.
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To look at horror films, you’d think we lived in the Vatican. Catholics account for barely one-fifth of the adult population in the U.S., and it’s declining. But supernatural horror is overrun by demons, antichrists (often cherubic-faced little boys), possessed nuns, vampires, and ghosts of sinners past.
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