Model or Remodel
A look at old vs new
Grabbed from my blog Making Believe.
No this isn’t about building. I’m one of the worse builders in the world. My grape arbor collapsed a few years ago and I’ll be danged if I can read a measuring tape.
Still I have a few words on the subject concerning remakes and starting fresh. This is dedicated to all you original creators out there who could care less about what has been written already, aside from enjoying it.
You write new stories, new characters, new trials for them, new resolutions, too.
Your dream…I mean isn’t it a dream really…to tell the world your story in every median possible? Wouldn’t you love a film adapted (with you at the helm to make sure its’ done right) from your book? Why? So that you get more of an audience? So you can see your story come to life! What fulfillment! It’s not even about money at that point, not to me. When we did the concept film for Ian’s Realm it was pure joy. There was no money made. In fact we spend plenty. But the entire process was an unequable thrill!
I love to write but I also love people to read my books.
However, the guys with the money want to keep remodeling the stuff that people loved 50 years ago. (RE: Snow White and all the other old Disney movies now being remade not to mention Marvel and DC comics and whatever else). Needless to say, those movies don’t have the same impact they had back then because the audience loved the first one.
Also, the audience of the first movies are now 50 years older. So…hello!
I once knew a carpenter who told me it is much easier and more cost efficient to build a new house than to remodel an old one.
There are lots of reasons for that. It’s old. The wood is old, the ceiling is old, the foundation is old. You have to prop the thing up, fix the cracks, tear it apart maybe, and make up for any mistakes the original builder made. Not to mention the upgrades that have to be made to bring it all up to code.
Why not start new?
I’m hoping Hollywood gets the picture (pun intended). They should because not only are independent authors outselling traditional publishers, but so too are independent filmmakers our producing Hollywood, making a name for themselves at film festivals instead of combing the streets of L.A or NY as paupers, begging and soliciting their scripts to strangers just to have the gatekeepers snub them.
It’s a cruel world to creatives.
I want to give a Kudos to those of you writing your hearts out. Telling the world your new ideas, your new tales, your new legends, your new creative endeavors. I hope you are recognized for your work. We all should be.
That being said, I’m thrilled that my screenplay An Unconventional Mr. Peadlebody won the Best Comedy Screenplay award at Cannes World Wide Film Festival.
Maybe someone will notice. It’s a long shot, but how fun if someone showed up willing to finance it’s production… ?
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