A prequel to “Beauty and the Beast” will reportedly feature neither beauty nor beast. Other Mouse House reboots in the works are head-scratchers, many targeted as streaming exclusives.
Even if you fail miserably, at least you’ve come up with something original.” (Last month, Columbus inked a deal to create a new Disney Plus drama and may have a more Mouse-friendly tone in interviews ahead.) In critiquing “Home Alone 6,” Columbus also took aim at these “paint-by-numbers versions of Disney animated films,” as he called them. “Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Russo are even going to try their hand at a take on Disney’s “Hercules.” Although basically unwatchable, it found an audience, so it’s understandable why “The Little Mermaid” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” are up for the live-action treatment. In 2019, “The Lion King” was remade, heavy with computer-generated imagery. It reflects a mindset common in dumbed-down family entertainment: kids will watch anything. Considering several have earned more than $1 billion at the global box office, they’re only doubling down on this strategy. Examples abound of projects either announced or currently filming that make fans ask: Is nothing sacred?ĭisney is surely the worst offender, with their string of a dozen live-action “reimagined” versions of animated classics.
Lately, it seems film and TV studios cannot decline any opportunity to extend a franchise. Unnecessary Reboots Taint Silver Screen Classics Beyond its copycat plot, this latest sequel reveals how the Hollywood model is breaking down. He didn’t even touch on bigger issues, like why no parent or child in this 2021-set film has a working cell phone. “I’m a firm believer that you don’t remake films that have had the longevity of ‘Home Alone.’ You’re not going to create lightning in a bottle again. “It’s a waste of time as far as I’m concerned,” he said. Seemingly self-aware that it’s only recycling clichés, the new trailer includes the line: “Holiday classics were meant to be broken.”Ĭolumbus, who directed the first two hit films, said last year he found this remake pointless.
It’s so derivative of the original Macaulay Culkin flick that screenwriter Hughes, who died in 2009, even has a story credit.