Originality Is Overrated: What Independent Filmmakers Should Learn From Hollywood’s Love of Remakes
“Risk aversion has really paid off, and studios and production companies have noticed this…Recently the industry has seen a solid string of success born out of rebooting or upgrading content from the past. This is a risk-averse strategy. You bank on content where people already have a sense of the characters, they have a sense of what the plot is, what the story is.” — Walt Hicky of FiveThirtyEight Consumers are risk averse, preferring something that is known over the uncerta