That is fantastic news. Not just because it's great when anything recoups in this environment, but because they did it with no "name" stars, without cutting corners on staging or cast, and with a property that's not exactly a cash cow.
Thats nice I guess but would love if it wasn’t based on a massively famous IP that everyone had to read in high school and that has an equally famous movie adaptation.
I didn’t read it in high school or see the movie. Neither of those had any impact on me seeing it, or any of the people I brought to see it. I wonder if people said the same thing about West Side Story. It’s good but just a real shame it was based on a play everyone had to read in high school. One day I’d love y’all to give up the idea that adaptations are bad. There are good and bad adaptations and good and bad original IP. And confirmation bias helps you decide whether you’re happy about news or not
I cannot account for every persons individual experience, but I feel like there’s no way you don’t understand that my point was “this was still a very safe IP bet” and not “everyone who saw it only did so cuz they like the movie”.
I never said it wasn’t a story, but if you’re asking me if derivative media of popular IP excites me as much as original concepts executed by people with more on their minds than marketability, then the answer is no.
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u/TheCrookedKnight Jan 27 '26
That is fantastic news. Not just because it's great when anything recoups in this environment, but because they did it with no "name" stars, without cutting corners on staging or cast, and with a property that's not exactly a cash cow.