![]() ![]() “I realized it was probably never going to be what I wanted.” “The deeper I got into it,” Snyder told Empire. How many more creators could discover what Snyder is discovering: that removing the limitations of the originally-intended IP can be liberating, and a quick way to jumpstart their imaginations. At a time when franchise movies, once seen as our last hope for keeping the theatrical business afloat, are clearly flagging, more IP projects re-envisioned as independent ones could be just the shot in the arm the industry needs. ![]() All of which is to say that it would be great if what Zack Snyder did with Rebel Moon happened more often. ![]() There are probably hundreds of others that their creators have never copped to for legal reasons. And just to bring us full circle, Star Wars itself probably wouldn’t exist if George Lucas hadn’t tried and failed to get the rights to Flash Gordon.Īnd these are just the examples of serial-number-filing that we know about. Steven Spielberg only made Raiders of the Lost Ark after a failed petition to direct a James Bond film. The Duffer Brothers tried and failed to convince Warner Bros to let them direct Stephen King’s It as an 8-10 episode miniseries before concocting their own story about a group of kids saving their small town from an ancient evil and calling it Stranger Things. Bella and Edward Cullen are copyrighted, so they became Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Fifty Shades of Grey famously began as Twilight fan-fiction written under the pen name “Snowqueens Icedragon” (no apostrophes is canon here). Many successful franchises owe their existence, in some way or another, to the practice of filing off the serial numbers. “Filing off the serial numbers is a common fannish term for the act of taking a piece of existing fanfiction and removing any details that tie it to a copyrighted source,” goes the first sentence of that Wiki, and it’s as good a definition as exists. Not only is this practice–of refitting an IP-driven pitch, fan-fiction, or a spec script for a specific show– not unheard of, it already even has a name and its own Wiki page. Turning an IP-driven script into an “original” one (what even is “original” when it comes to tentpole movies anyway?) means not having to deal with fan expectations and never having to argue over what is and isn’t “canon.” But it also means that there are probably piles of IP-driven scripts out there that are destined to go unused, unless.Īs Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon proves, reimagining your franchise blockbuster as an original sci-fi epic is just as easy as the reverse. And the end of franchise filmmaking being the biggest game in town creates a creative vacuum. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.All signs point to that exhaustion point finally having arrived. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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