I want to see a popular movie franchise where nobody owns the ip and all the different studios contribute movies and shows, with little concern for continuity, I want anarchy
What I want to see is,
A Long Earth TV series, not necessarily based on the book I just think it’s an interesting universe.
The Bobbyverse books made into movies.
More of Garrick, he can be doing literally anything, I just want more of him.
And yet more Star Wars stuff, but KOTOR era.Hot take… you are right, and it will be made by AI 😒
Looks like I’m not watching it then.
Could be that it will be the only thing not made by AI and it will be turned down from most studios because it isn’t.
I’m happy to see more movies like Dust Bunny, Hail Mary, and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t die.
But, I also like TV shows better, Dark Matter, The Gentlemen, Lucky, etc. Because, they go longer and have time to dive into the details. Movies seem rushed and truncated to me after watching a series of eight or ten episodes now.
I don’t want another huge franchise, I just want somewhat original stories NOT based in established universes. It’s better if they don’t go on for 10 sequels spaced years apart. That format is better suited to TV, where we get a whole season across a few weeks, one or two seasons then it’s done, and we get something fresh.
Young people don’t go to movies as much as older people used to. They don’t care for “boomer media”, they want games, interaction. We’re in the middle of a big upheaval in entertainment, it will be interesting to see what comes of this. I think the next big thing won’t be another big franchise, but some sort of AR, multi-participant interactive media. Not Fortnight, or Minecraft, etc. Something more approachable for the masses and more short-term, with a conclusion.
Because, they go longer and have time to dive into the details. Movies seem rushed and truncated to me after watching a series of eight or ten episodes now.
OTOH, a lot of TV shows spend too much time on filler content in an attempt to both increase runtime but also build anticipation. Only to have the resolution at the end of the season rushed with zero room for the emotional outcome to expand and relax. Which gives it an unsatisfying feeling.
Then, movies (that are done well) make efficient use of their time budget to tell the story and not have multiple hours of empty filler content to pad out the runtime.
A common issue is early super hero movies was the constant re-introduction of various characters, instead of just telling the story. Which resulted in half the movie re-explaining who these various people are and then only half to tell the actual story.
Both TV and movies have their place, it just depends on the material how well it fits.
For example, I don’t think Lord of the Rings would have worked as a TV show, and I don’t think Wheel of Time would work as movies.
That being said, one of the things that killed WoT was the baffling decision to veer so far from the source material. The first season spent more than half the runtime on small minor things, or things that never even happened.
A lot of these replies show how confident people are in being out of touch. Out here acting like nothing good is getting made while only paying attention to the big franchise flicks with big advertising budget lol
It’s like saying they don’t make good music anymore when you only listen to top 40 radio on your 15-minute commute.
To answer the question in the OP: Yeah man, no duh. Things aren’t popular forever and something always replaced it. There’s dozens of franchiseable IPs out there right now.
I think the next big thing will be from a country other than the Untied States
“A popular media franchise will start sometime in the next 60 years” is a 0 Kelvin take.
we didn’t even started to mine all those Heavy Metal titles yet. Gimme PG Den!
thoughts: star wars is trash, marvel is shit. but those are mine, get your own thoughts
Pokemon? Dragon Ball? Both appeared during my lifetime and are loved by my, my son, and his sons.
The Skibidi Toilet Cinematic Universe. 87 movies. Each more popular than the last.
87 movies
C’mon, how did you miss that so badly lmao
I think this post just ignores a lot of things out there.
The book Jurassic Park was released in 1990, and the film released in 1993. Since then we’ve had a handful of films and other spin-offs, all within the last 50 years.
The book The Hunger Games was released in 2008, and the film released in 2012. Since then we’ve had a handful of films and I would bet many more to come.
What about the Pokemon media franchise? Originally released in 1996 and is one of the largest franchises with video games, TV shows, movies and everything else.
If we count tv franchises, Game of Thrones and The Handmaid’s Tale are pretty big ones based on pretty recent books
I thought Skylanders, personally
Chances are it already exists. Go looking.
My bet is on the Fnaf franchise. No way that they’ll let it die anytime soon.
I thought that’s already kind of flat?
I don’t think so. Because nobody can get the funding for anything original anymore. Its all cobtroles by business men and everyone wants as much profit as possible. Also one of the reasons everything is so bland and pg 13.
I’d like to counter with the example of Terminator, the original one was done almost entirely via guerilla filming and had a shoestring budget, seriously they made money on the nightclub scene because people just kinda started to show up to their illegal set since guerilla nightclubs were also a thing at the time. All it would take for a similar success is someone just kinda getting lucky and getting popular through word of mouth.
Hell even Star Wars had a fuck all budget initially and Lucas was 100 percent ready to just do a new hope and then switch over to books and comics, then it turned into a massive cultural success.
Apparently Lucas put it in the contract that he had the rights to any sequels and the studio was okay with that clause because they didn’t expect it to be successful enough to have sequels
If memory serves right he renegotiated at some point during filming to more or less retain all rights cause the studio thought it was going to be a flop, he even got the merchandise sales. I imagine those executives were on suicide watch pretty damned quick. Given how even during this lackluster Disney era Star Wars still generates an absurd amount of money through merchandise alone I suspect that has to be one of the biggest fuck ups in film rights period.
