Pascal called for opening roles so that they can be cast by actors of different racial or gender identities than how the character was originally portrayed.
Pascal called for opening roles so that they can be cast by actors of different racial or gender identities than how the character was originally portrayed.
As a counterpoint, Hollywood and establishment media is losing relevance hourly. People are spending less time watching yet another remake/sequel/reboot, and they’re spending a lot more time watching completely original content on youtube, or having discussions on reddit (or lemmy), or playing video games.
The argument you’re making would have been more persuasive back when Hollywood had a virtual monopoly on creativity, but they’ve been eating their seed corn for so long it’s having major long-term effects on the creative industry in America.
Japan is an interesting example of another way media could be done. There’s a content pipeline in a lot of cases of webnovel to light novel to manga to anime to movie (and of course that’s not the only thing that exists in the country but I’m a weeb so shut up), and it’s having an outsized influence globally. The manga industry dwarfs the American comic book industry, and while there are remakes and sequels, it isn’t the majority of the media coming out.
In the west, we’ve also seen some examples of hits from other countries that weren’t based on anything else, such as squid game and parasyte out of Korea. There’s also been some successes such as M3gan which made over 10 times its production budget.
Then there’s stuff like indiegogo and patreon, where people are going out to directly fund indies because they’re so hungry for something different.