Because this is not a good recipe for shepherding the franchises we care so much about. Because, as you said, this approach to creative decision making is rampant in Hollywood. Because studio executives seem to learn exactly the wrong lessons from every success and ignore what makes people fall in love with a story or with characters. Because while this *might* result in a decent movie, the formula leads to a pile of trash 99% of the time and Ghostbusters deserved more consideration. Because this is where we are in the story of this movie's production - everything to this point has been worrysome, and there's no good movie to point to. Because no case has been made for jettisoning the original films from this one's history; rather the decision was made on the hastily chosen director's disinterest in the property. We're film geeks here. We spend hundreds or thousands of dollars, untold hours on recreating items that characters hold or wear in these movies. Caring an inordinate amount is par for the course - that's a given in these conversations on this forum. I promise not to try and explain it again - but are you seriously telling me you REALLY don't see where we're coming from, even if you don't share those concerns? I just don't buy it.
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Indy IV?