Reboot camp

Robert Hutton on Cinema

TO SIT THROUGH THE TRAILER REEL in the cinema this summer is to be offered a series of films that look in some way familiar. Here’s Furiosa, described as “A Mad Max Saga” — a spin-off of a reboot of a film franchise. Here’s Borderlands, based on a computer game. Here’s Bad Boys: Ride Or Die, in which Will Smith plays, for the fourth time, a character he first portrayed in 1995. Hollywood, desperate for stories, has always mined existing content: could that book or toy be filmed? Could that film be filmed again? Good ideas are hard to come by, so if someone else has managed to make one work, you’d be a fool to ignore it. And in the fierce competition for eyeballs, something that comes with a…

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