Just because some shitheads use the name of a previous work does not mean they have anything to do with it.
"Star Wars" 7 8 and 9 are not Star Wars.
The new "Lord of the Rings" is not the Lord of the Rings.
Don't let those who hate you pretend like they are the continuation of authors once respected.
They are skincrawlers; they use the name without any respect for the soul.
The reason they can do this is because Disney, back in the early 2000s, extended copyrights to last the entire length of the authors life plus 125 years, which they lobby to extend every decade; they now own everything forever. My suggestion of progressive copyright fees ($1 for the first year, doubling every year after) was, sadly, ignored.
The only cure for this crap is a widespread distain for copyright. We need fan comics/movies/games of popular IPs, even if most of them are bad, because they won't be worse than the licensed stuff.
Uh-huh, it's how you pave the way for a new Holy Book of Canon, that mustn't be messed with by the vulgate, and, of course, its narrative never questioned.
Frankly, I think a lot of what got passed down to us from ancient times amounted to "fan-fiction", while the priests, of course, tried to exercise their own primitive forms of copyright.
The Reynard cycle might be a good example of this; The Romance of Reynard is just a collection of stories that connect in a kind of narrative, while the bulk of the stories told at the time they were popular would have been mostly oral and just made up by townsfolk who liked the characters (and how they could be used to poke fun at the nobles and clergy.)
In short, I think Western society has been through all this before.
Agreed with the disdain for copyright!
I mean this post quite literally. It is NOT Star Wars, Star Trek, etc, any more than fan fiction is. The only thing that gives this sick practice power is that people believe that having 'the rights' to a franchise or property then gives this sick corporate fan fiction some kind of power. It doesn't! Still just garbage corporate fan fiction!
Nah, let dead franchises stay dead. New people will create new things.