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Chen_Geller t1_j6hkfcf wrote

>It happened for other movies like "The lord of the ring",

The Bakshi film didn't fail at the box office: its budget figures range from $6 million to $12 (the latter is, I believe, hyperbole on the part of the director: the movie doesn't look anywhere near a $12 million movie) and it made $30.5 milion in the US alone. There were facts eating away at the profit margins for the studio, but on the whole it seems it made a decent (if a little underwhelming) profit.

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mickeyflinn t1_j6hkbm1 wrote

> Let's take the movies "The golden compass" (The golden compass) or "John Carter" (A Princess of Mars) for exemple. Would that be possible for a director that loved one of these books to make a new movie about it ?

Sure, go buy the rights.

> Or will it be harder for him to obtain funding from productors since the disney movie already failed ?

Yep

> It happened for other movies like "The lord of the ring", but could it works for a book that is less known ?

It has happened many times.

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TheWaterBound t1_j6hfgn8 wrote

Directors don't make movies; movie studios make movies.

Why don't businesses relaunch failed product lines? Because they're concerned that the reason the product failed the first time wasn't poor manufacturing, but poor concept.

This is only surprising if you look at movies as art rather than products.

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Volcano_Tequila t1_j6heew1 wrote

I absolutely admit that when the synopsis is some sort of found footage trope, I elect not to watch it. It feels very been there, done that, and multiple films have explored it over the years.

There are other tropes that I just cannot abide as well, like switching bodies movies or reliving the day again and again movies or Ebenezer Scrooge takeoff movies. Each has had marvelous examples of creativity for sure, but enough is enough after a certain point.

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