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    From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to Arelor on Sun Sep 20 16:30:00 2020
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Sunday 20.09.20 - 05:41, arelor wrote to Ogg:

    New producers love to create or rehash their versions using
    younger actors or use newer film techologies. It will
    never end.

    What grinds my gears is that there are actual new ideas
    out there. It is just lots of producers are choosing not
    to take them to the screen.

    Do you have examples?

    It seems that with today's CGI, body-point suits (eg. Avatar,
    LoTR, Marvel films) ..anything is possible, and seemingly
    already done.

    What new ideas are you talking about?

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  • From Arelor@VERT to Ogg on Sun Sep 20 14:55:51 2020
    Re: actual new ideas out there, but not to the screen
    By: Ogg to Arelor on Sun Sep 20 2020 09:30 am

    ** On Sunday 20.09.20 - 05:41, arelor wrote to Ogg:

    New producers love to create or rehash their versions using
    younger actors or use newer film techologies. It will
    never end.

    What grinds my gears is that there are actual new ideas
    out there. It is just lots of producers are choosing not
    to take them to the screen.

    Do you have examples?

    It seems that with today's CGI, body-point suits (eg. Avatar,
    LoTR, Marvel films) ..anything is possible, and seemingly
    already done.

    What new ideas are you talking about?

    I'd probably should have specified it is big producers who are choosing not to take the stuff to the screen.

    Seriously, studios that can't afford a franchise license have to rely on plots in order to sell films, so they end up producing things like Infinity Chamber (about a rebel who is subject to psychological games in the hands of a government controlled AI as an information extraction method). Or The Exam, in which they manage to get you bitting your nails in a setting consisting on a room and a fistful actors, wondering what the answer to the exam's questions is.


    A small studio's superhero film cannot outcompete the big guy's ones, which have unlimited budgets. They take risks and sometimes results show.

    Big studios, which are the ones that matter, just play it safe, buy a license and let it sell itself.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Ogg on Tue Sep 22 02:18:00 2020
    On 09-20-20 09:30, Ogg wrote to Arelor <=-

    It seems that with today's CGI, body-point suits (eg. Avatar,
    LoTR, Marvel films) ..anything is possible, and seemingly
    already done.

    There's a lot that hasn't - a lot of books, for example, that haven't been adapted to the screen (in either movie or TV formats). There's a number of "part done" series, like 2001 and 2010 (but the books 2061 and 3001 haven't been made into movies yet).

    But occasionally, something surprising that's novel does come along and grab my interest. :)


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