With the Little Mermaid abortion I ran across an interesting trend for films that is probably going to accelerate quickly: "Reimagining" a film.
For an example I'm going to use Malum (2023)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9472334/
Vs Last Shift (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2965466/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
This is the exact same director, 9 years after making Last Shift he just 'reimagined' it with a black lead instead of the white lead. Basically the same film except a few minor changes, basically all of them for the worse but pushing modern social 'narrative' points.
This is a bizarre trend, especially when it is the exact same person doing both projects. Financing your original film except now blacker should be impossible, at this point it is clear Hollywood is financing special interests and not actual quality. There's no excuse for funding shit like this.
There's a lot of other examples of works being 'reimagined' recently but this one stands out quite a bit, and people are even cheering the 'reimagining' as some sort of progressive stance on their original films.
Who is excited for Cameron to 'reimagine' some of his classics? We may be seeing just the tip of the iceberg for this bullshit. I wonder when they'll just begin removing the originals from streaming options and only keeping the 'reimagined' versions.
It is interesting that instead of being open about it they are being so subversive.
The only reason I knew Malum was not an original film was because I saw Last Shift years ago, I recognized it pretty fast. They don't mention the original film at all, or the fact that this is a 'reimagining' anywhere on the marketing for it.
I guess after a decade they can just slap a black person in the lead, pretend it is a 'reimagining' and forget to mention they've already made the movie before.
It is like putting a new cover on an old book and selling it again as new. Scummy as shit.
Well they can't get away with any asian films as they quickly call it out and the original is always better.
They done this many times before with foriegn films as I remember they did it with the Swedish film Let the Right one in just 2 years later did an American version, though that might be more Americans too lazy to read subtitles and was more or less 1:1 just switched locations from Stockholm to New Mexico.
Yeah, except now it is 'Malum' and much more diverse with added lines about how strong she is.
It's overall much worse despite the higher budget and the director getting a 2nd shot at his own film.
Malum, meaning evil, but from what I can recall from my 1st form Latin lessons the end of the word changes depending on who or what is evil, by no means an expert though so quite probably incorrect in my assumptions