Epiphanies

6/23/2018

Occasionally, when you discuss stuff, you have insights into deeper truths.

Today, I was asked how I felt about the Thundercats reboot. Now I don't care much one way or the other about the Thundercats reboot, but it made me think about the old "Hollywood can't come up with new ideas" complaint that we always hear. Then I realized there's a money angle here. It has to do with Intellectual Property. Now somebody owns the IP for Thundercats (but seriously, you can fill that blank in with any series, and in the case of Thundercats the IP is owned by Warner Bros.) So, the company that holds the IP to the characters will either try to shop it around to someone to cash in on said IP, or if the company already owns the IP (like WB owns Thundercats now) they go over their IP catalog, see what they have that they can use without paying for creative development or such, and reboot that.

I'm not saying it's ALL about the money here, but I'm definitely saying that there is a cash incentive to revive old IP because it is cheaper than buying or developing NEW IP.