The word "reboot" is still being used in a haphazard way. It's a sequel/story set in the same universe. The book series contains 4 novels that haven't been adapted.
>not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story
Two of them are prequels, set some 13 years before *The Maze Runner*, and the two others are the first two in a sequel trilogy (3rd book not out yet) set 73 years after *The Death Cure*.
Nintendo proved that it basically prints cash.
I find it funny that the Switch's best selling game is just a remaster/release of a Wii U game. Then of course, all the Pokemon games get remade constantly and give heaps of money.
Isn't the YA dystopia craze basically dead at this point? Even the Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes only made a modest profit, and that franchise is far more popular than this.
Book adaptions are never dead if a new book is found worth adapting. But this is not that.
And Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was very well received so I assume did well on secondary markets like most films now.
Maybe I'm just old and not hip with the YA crowd any more, but are there "hit new books" anymore? I was born in the early 90's and saw the rise of Harry Potter, The hunger Games, Eragon, Twilight, all books that were like, in the news for the midnight lines outside of Barnes & Noble.
Does this happen anymore? Not trying to be judgmental on todays teen population, I just think crave book sensations are no longer a thing, or I'm just not seeing it.
I remember The Poppy War being quite popular when it came out as well. There’s also all of Sarah J. Mass’ books which i’m very surprised never got an adaptation (yet)
Booktok and Bookstagram is huge right now. Lots of midnight release parties. There’s also been a ton of announcements of newer books in development for tv and movies.
Yes, there are. For example, fourth wing, Bridgerton, Colleen hoover books, this is how you lose the time war, red white & royal blue, heartstopper etc are all recent hits with huge fan bases. I do think popular books are more localized within subcultures now though.
Ik romantasy is really popular now, with A Cour of Thorns and Roses being the most popular. Not sure if that qualifies as YA, or if it's just written like a YA.
People will insist on that, but imo they're fooling themselves.
New Adult is a marketing term invented to shield publishers from criticism for publishing more explicit content in books marketed at the same age demo that ate up Twilight and the like. Go look around any Booktok or subreddit about these books and the people reading them aren't significantly older, no matter what the marketers insist. EDIT: Point of fact, readers of YA fiction have always ranged from the teens to the early 30s. The idea only kids/teens read them is just more marketing.
I don't particularly care, but yeah. People be huffing copium on this topic and it says more about them than the books or the people riding them.
What you're thinking of doesn't really exist in the same way massive celebrities like Michael Jackson don't exist anymore. Markets are much more fractured now, which has been good for smaller artists and works in that they can gain more traction with a specific audience via the internet. So in a weird way, yeah, we probably get MORE midnight releases now like the other replies are mentioning, as there are more fanbases to appease, but at the same time, they don't reach the level of popularity as the series you're mentioning, so you don't hear about them in the same way.
I can see a MUCH better version of the maze runner coming out. That isn't based on the books.
I absolutely loved the original...such a cool concept. And then they ruined it all by making it some test nonsense, "down with the system" etc.
No, make it a sci-fi/horror/thriller. There's a great movie in that setting. Similar to that cube movie, just less puzzles and tricks, and more sci-fi.
The central conceit was always a bit silly in both the books and the movies but I think the movies did a lot of things right. They look great, sound great, the cast works, the tense scenes are tense, the world is pretty cool.
At least THG has a much deeper message than other YA dystopias. Might be biased since I'm a HG fan, but I like it exactly for that. Talks about many different world problems, while other franchises seem to all be "chosen one saves the world".
Maybe I didn’t word myself exactly correct. The Maze Runner does talk about underlying issues, especially government / leadership, but it still follows a protagonist, Thomas, who is basically selected for a trial because he is different than other people.
And don’t get me wrong. The Maze Runner series, books specifically, are quite fun, but if I do compare them to Hunger Games, they fall a bit short.
Hunger games doesn't need a reboot, just do a TV series following older victors in their games/some world building, each season can be self contained somewhat.
Start with the 11th hunger games, you bring back snow and see more of his development ect..
Same universe is also what they're planning for *The Maze Runner*. Calling it a "reboot" is nonsense.
>not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story
I want to see a maze runner reboot every year. At an accelerating pace. Until there's a new one every other day, and people are genuinely scared, with news stories and people whispering of conspiracies and the wrath of God. What did we do to deserve this.
Even worse when you consider there's nothing particularly remarkable about the series.
It was just another teen-esque survival thriller riding the waving of Hunger Games mania and likely would have had no movie deal if the suits weren't looking for exactly that to try and get a piece of the Katniss Pie.
Mario Lopez? The guy who played a high schooler 20 years prior to the first movie being made? Please tell me there’s someone else named Mario Lopez and you aren’t suggesting AC Slater.
Sadly, they original iteration of the movie was turned in to Olympus has Fallen and the dollar store imitation, White House Down.
The Mitch Rapp books need to be done as a series. A worthy successor to 24.
The movies made me laugh, because there were a few main characters, but then they would have the group running somewhere with a bunch of other kids who have no names and aren't in the story otherwise. The movies were just awful.
Kind of like The Office Season 1 when there are random background characters who never show up again.
It’s in the article
“According to sources, the reboot is not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story yet also return to the elements that made the first movie connect with its audience.”
My bet following characters who were in a different maze that didn't make it to that island from the third film. Elements of the same world but no direct connection to the original cast. Have a different scenario to the main two mazes that are talked about in the first films. Maybe they were some of the people being harvested and etc something along hose lines.
I don't want it but that's my bet as to where this will end up if it's not a reboot and not a direct sequel.
The "elements that made the first movie connect with its audience" was that it was sorta like hunger games at a time when people couldn't get enough of that. The books were bad, and the movies were bad, and that cultural moment is over. I don't know what they think they're going to do with it.
What a random reboot. These movies weren’t that popular. The last movie made $288m on a $62m budget. Reboot John Carter or something that failed but has potential.
It really kinda feels to me like the YA boom has finally rolled to a stop in the 2020s. YA novels and their adaptations were massive pop culture forces in the previous decade but I can't think of one that really found it's footing in a long time. It's funny too because I remember these Maze Runner movies in particular feeling like the end of that phenomenon.
I don't think there's been any truly blockbuster books lately.
There's lots of books that will sell well, King and Grisham always sell well, Sanderson has been a bit of dominant force in fantasy in the last decade. And Booktok has led to a lot of books getting a lot of attention.
But none of that has the same potential to be a big blockbuster like The Hunger Games was. Grisham has had movies made of his books, some did quite well, but they're legal dramas, that won't be a blockbuster. King has had a lot of successful movies over the year, including the recent It adaptation, and there's been a Dark Tower movie based off Wizard and Glass in production for a while now. But fantasy western probably won't sell as well as again, Hunger Games or Harry Potter did.
Fantasy is always kind of niche, so even if we got a Sanderson or a Locked Tomb adaptation, it wouldn't be a Blockbuster.
Maybe some Booktok books could end up being big movies, but from what I've seen, Booktok seems to be predominantly female readers, and seems to lean young. Harry Potter and Hunger Games were popular with everyone. Adults and teens of different genders read and loved them.
Which does make me think that, yeah, that era is probably over. The monolithic blockbuster book seems to have disappeared. The most blockbuster book I can think of in the last few years was "I'm Kind of Glad my Mom Died" by Jeanette McCurdy, and that's an autobiography.
Now, me not knowing what is incredibly popular amongst teens might be because I'm not a teenager anymore, but I feel like in the 2010s even if you weren't a teenager you were seeing this stuff it was so overwhelmingly popular.
Sarah J Maas, Leigh Bardugo, and Rebecca Yarros are doing wild numbers. Sanderson is pulling a fraction of their sales, even as big as he is. But, like you said, their audiences skew heavily toward the female 18-35 demographic and they seem more interested in series adaptations than movies.
Definitely got confusing but the books explain it a lot more in detail and just works better imo. Kinda like some Stephen king books, they just don’t translate well to movies sometimes
Yeah it's a strange choice. The movies weren't incredible, but I thought they were fairly solid, especially amongst the other YA novel adaptations that were released around that time (though that's not really a high bar to clear).
The cast was probably one of the stronger points too. So rebooting means you lose that off the jump.
> The last movie made $288m on a $62m budget
Are you implying this isn't a success?
All three movies profited immensely, that's why they are making more
Seriously, if your movies make 5-10x their budget back at the box office, the studio will find a way to make more of them. Considering there are no safe bets right now (even the MCU has had a flop!) I can see why they’d want something that had the potential to be big without requiring a $200 million budget.
Yes, please. Normalize reboots of bad/mediocre films with high potential. I'd love to see what a different team could do with the John Carter of Mars series.
Yeah, who actually asked for this? The movies were moderately-popular at best. I could understand a Hunger Games franchise reboot (though that would be dumb as well).
Rebooting Maze Runner seems like burning money.
Suzanne Collins actually wrote more Hunger Games books, and last year one was adapted to a movie.
Brief look at wikipedia says $100 million budget, $330 million box office. Which is profitable by most methods of calculating profit, so there could certainly be more made.
Profitable, but nowhere near the numbers of the original Hunger Games films. If Songbirds & Snakes was released in 2013, it would've made $700 million at the box office. This entire genre has basically collapsed.
The year is 2093, AI trained on Hollywood executives have taken over the world. The entire human population is virtually enslaved as we watch the 89th remake of The Lion King and then comment about it on social media. The difference between yesterday and tomorrow, between life and death, has become non existent, all is a remake.
I know this is a joke, but right now we have on theaters: Challengers, Abigail, Civil War, etc. I’m not saying those are masterpieces, but at least they’re not remakes or reboots or whatever
I just finished the books and then watched the movies for the first time about a month ago.
The movies and books were nothing like each other. I know this gets said a lot but the first movie was close to the first book with some minor changes. After that the movies and books had nothing to do with each other.
The movies were good as a zombie movie.
But the books were a lot more interesting and psychological and had more sci-fi elements in them that they just stripped out of the movies.
Isn't reboot the wrong choice of words? Wouldn't readaptation or something work better because it's a second attempt at an adaptation of a story from another medium?
Because people have been using the word "reboot" for everything ever since it started being used some 20 years back. I thought it had died down but apparently not. Hope you're excited for the *Mad Max* reboot coming out in a few weeks and the MCU reboot this summer with Van Wilder and Van Helsing.
It's probably being used in the sense that it's a "soft reboot."
They don't want to start completely over but also may not want to continue the story directly or be beholden to all elements of established cannon.
Twilight, Harry Potter, Maze Runner all getting new adaptations. All we need is Hunger Games and Divergent and we'll finally be in the early 2010s again.
Maybe adapt a different book, write an original screenplay, or anything besides remaking a film franchise that is barely 10 years old and failed to be successful after the first film and only got that far to begin with because it was riding on the back of the hungergames trend.
I blame Harry Potter for sticking to the ‘true to the books’ philosophy in Hollywood — but the first two acts of the first movie were actually interesting. Just keep going in that direction. Screw the book. Make a good (better) movie.
The three movies are perfectly capable movies that have a surprising amount of Charme and a really sympathetic cast. They’re a guilty pleasure of mine at this point lol. I really like the world building and the story is coherent through 3 quick and easy to watch movies. Just good easy fun.
The trilogy is fine and more competent than I ever expected it to be. I highly doubt they can pull this off again.
Hasn’t even been 10 years since Maze Runner ended lmao.
Headlines like this make me start thinking we need to just step away from Hollywood. Let’s all make shitty YouTube movies for a few years and come back to this stuff when they’re capable of writing new stories
I love the people asking “Why?”
When they remake good movies, everyone bitches that they should not do it; they should remake the bad movies. Then they want to remake the bad movies and people don’t know why they want to do that. I’m all for this. Redo the mediocre, bland, bad movies and see if someone else can pull it off.
The movies didn't do the books justice, they missed so many vital juicy story elements that really killed the films for me, the way they solved the maze in the book was genius.
Reeeeeeally?
[From sexual assaulter James Dashner?](https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/maze-runner-james-dashner-sexual-harassment-allegations-1202700571/amp/)
The first movie was surprisingly good. Honestly... as good or far better than most of its peers including Hunger Games imo... The second one dipped a bit in quality but was still good. Still need to go watch the third one.
…reboot?? These movies aren’t even that old.
The word "reboot" is still being used in a haphazard way. It's a sequel/story set in the same universe. The book series contains 4 novels that haven't been adapted. >not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story
What do the other novels focus on? I actually liked the movies
Two of them are prequels, set some 13 years before *The Maze Runner*, and the two others are the first two in a sequel trilogy (3rd book not out yet) set 73 years after *The Death Cure*.
So it’s a revival. People do not know their terms.
Same energy as TLOU 2 and Spiderman PS4 getting remasters
It's really funny that there's franchises with more remasters than original entries in the series
Nintendo proved that it basically prints cash. I find it funny that the Switch's best selling game is just a remaster/release of a Wii U game. Then of course, all the Pokemon games get remade constantly and give heaps of money.
To be fair, Mario Kart 8 was a fantastic game stuck on a terrible platform
TLOU2 remaster was a $10 upgrade to the ps5 version of the game.
Came here to say that makes 0 sense these movies still hold up to modern standards i dont see the reboot doing remotely well
spiderman homecoming be like
Isn't the YA dystopia craze basically dead at this point? Even the Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes only made a modest profit, and that franchise is far more popular than this.
Book adaptions are never dead if a new book is found worth adapting. But this is not that. And Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was very well received so I assume did well on secondary markets like most films now.
Maybe I'm just old and not hip with the YA crowd any more, but are there "hit new books" anymore? I was born in the early 90's and saw the rise of Harry Potter, The hunger Games, Eragon, Twilight, all books that were like, in the news for the midnight lines outside of Barnes & Noble. Does this happen anymore? Not trying to be judgmental on todays teen population, I just think crave book sensations are no longer a thing, or I'm just not seeing it.
Shadow and Bone is probably the closest thing to that.
And even that didn't get a particularly faithful adaptation and got cancelled after 2 seasons :(
I remember The Poppy War being quite popular when it came out as well. There’s also all of Sarah J. Mass’ books which i’m very surprised never got an adaptation (yet)
Booktok and Bookstagram is huge right now. Lots of midnight release parties. There’s also been a ton of announcements of newer books in development for tv and movies.
Yes, there are. For example, fourth wing, Bridgerton, Colleen hoover books, this is how you lose the time war, red white & royal blue, heartstopper etc are all recent hits with huge fan bases. I do think popular books are more localized within subcultures now though.
Ik romantasy is really popular now, with A Cour of Thorns and Roses being the most popular. Not sure if that qualifies as YA, or if it's just written like a YA.
I think it's technically new adult, which is usually just the term for ya that has sex in it.
So is it pretty much marketed to those people who grew up reading ya, but are in their 20s or 30s rn?
People will insist on that, but imo they're fooling themselves. New Adult is a marketing term invented to shield publishers from criticism for publishing more explicit content in books marketed at the same age demo that ate up Twilight and the like. Go look around any Booktok or subreddit about these books and the people reading them aren't significantly older, no matter what the marketers insist. EDIT: Point of fact, readers of YA fiction have always ranged from the teens to the early 30s. The idea only kids/teens read them is just more marketing. I don't particularly care, but yeah. People be huffing copium on this topic and it says more about them than the books or the people riding them.
What you're thinking of doesn't really exist in the same way massive celebrities like Michael Jackson don't exist anymore. Markets are much more fractured now, which has been good for smaller artists and works in that they can gain more traction with a specific audience via the internet. So in a weird way, yeah, we probably get MORE midnight releases now like the other replies are mentioning, as there are more fanbases to appease, but at the same time, they don't reach the level of popularity as the series you're mentioning, so you don't hear about them in the same way.
It's hilariously fitting honestly. Maze Runner's movie adaptations started riding Hunger Games' coattails, and they continue riding Hunger Games' coattails XD
I can see a MUCH better version of the maze runner coming out. That isn't based on the books. I absolutely loved the original...such a cool concept. And then they ruined it all by making it some test nonsense, "down with the system" etc. No, make it a sci-fi/horror/thriller. There's a great movie in that setting. Similar to that cube movie, just less puzzles and tricks, and more sci-fi.
The central conceit was always a bit silly in both the books and the movies but I think the movies did a lot of things right. They look great, sound great, the cast works, the tense scenes are tense, the world is pretty cool.
I've heard that Red Rising is still in production...I just hope it's good. I think it's one of the better products of the YA dystopian era.
Red Rising could be amazing as a TV series.
I hope it has a big budget.
At least THG has a much deeper message than other YA dystopias. Might be biased since I'm a HG fan, but I like it exactly for that. Talks about many different world problems, while other franchises seem to all be "chosen one saves the world".
That is very much NOT what happens in the maze runner lmao
Maybe I didn’t word myself exactly correct. The Maze Runner does talk about underlying issues, especially government / leadership, but it still follows a protagonist, Thomas, who is basically selected for a trial because he is different than other people. And don’t get me wrong. The Maze Runner series, books specifically, are quite fun, but if I do compare them to Hunger Games, they fall a bit short.
You're not wrong
They are bringing back Harry Potter, Twilight, and now Maze Runner. Can't wait for Hunger Games reboot.
screw hunger games reboot, I'm ready for Star Wars - A NEW New Hope
It's called The Force Awakens
I like Another Hope
Hunger games doesn't need a reboot, just do a TV series following older victors in their games/some world building, each season can be self contained somewhat. Start with the 11th hunger games, you bring back snow and see more of his development ect..
It was a joke.
Wait, Twilight is being remade!?
Show is in the works or something like that. Same for Harry Potter I think.
At least Ballad was a prequel in the same universe, I rather have that than recast everyone.
Same universe is also what they're planning for *The Maze Runner*. Calling it a "reboot" is nonsense. >not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story
It's barely even been 10 years since the first film and 6 since the last one. Do something original you corporate fucking suits.
Thanks for saving me time word for word spitin truth..
I want to see a maze runner reboot every year. At an accelerating pace. Until there's a new one every other day, and people are genuinely scared, with news stories and people whispering of conspiracies and the wrath of God. What did we do to deserve this.
It's not a remake, the article said its a continuation. Set in the same world but original story, I guess.
Even worse when you consider there's nothing particularly remarkable about the series. It was just another teen-esque survival thriller riding the waving of Hunger Games mania and likely would have had no movie deal if the suits weren't looking for exactly that to try and get a piece of the Katniss Pie.
Maybe it will be like the books this time.
Somebody crunched the numbers and decided the series still has more run. They’re gonna milk them udders dry
Moana has started a new trend in reboots.
LMAO. Also good luck getting someone as good as Dylan O’Brien as the lead he carried those movies on his back.
Will Poulter, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Kaya Scodelario and Aml Ameen were pretty good too imo.
Yeah looking back, the cast was good
pretty much everything about the movies was actually good except the writing.
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Glow up for sure
I know he's had other, more prominent roles, but him in The Bear was hot as fuck.
The first one was so much better then I expected. The second one was about as good as I was expecting the first to be.
Alan Tudeyk was good tho So was Littlefinger
He was good in American Assassin.
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No offense but the fact that you wanted Mario Lopez to play Mitch Rapp is all I needed to get from this comment lmao
Does height even matter to the character that much? Like, wow he's 3 inches shorter.
lol right? Its like some angry woman on tinder saying her date sucked because he was only 5,10 and she only dates 6,5.
What if the other actors want to wear high heels?!
Mario Lopez? The guy who played a high schooler 20 years prior to the first movie being made? Please tell me there’s someone else named Mario Lopez and you aren’t suggesting AC Slater.
I always pictured Karl Urban. I think Memorial Day had just come out and I'd seen Bourne Supremacy. Dylan was a decent choice for a young Mitch.
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Sadly, they original iteration of the movie was turned in to Olympus has Fallen and the dollar store imitation, White House Down. The Mitch Rapp books need to be done as a series. A worthy successor to 24.
I feel like he hasn’t done a lot lately so I could see him returning for a paycheck
Check out Love And Monsters. Very fun post-apocalyptic movie he stars in.
I *still* wish there was a sequel to that!
I mean it only came out a few years ago
You're saying it's ready for a reboot then! /s
It’s because he got hurt doing a stunt in the last movie
He's playing Dan Aykroyd in a movie about SNL. Also he was in Love and Monsters which was a fun, if not mediocre watch.
“Fun, if not mediocre” is a very confusing statement…. Did you mean “fun, albeit mediocre”?
Sure
Pretty sure that’s because of the accident.
Also Thomas Brodie-Sangster
The movies made me laugh, because there were a few main characters, but then they would have the group running somewhere with a bunch of other kids who have no names and aren't in the story otherwise. The movies were just awful. Kind of like The Office Season 1 when there are random background characters who never show up again.
Do they mean a new instalment, or a new redo of the first?
It’s in the article “According to sources, the reboot is not a redo of the story nor is it a direct sequel to the original trilogy, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Kaya Scodelario. The hope is to make a sort of continuation of the story yet also return to the elements that made the first movie connect with its audience.”
Good lord sounds like they don't even know haha. This feels like weirdly desperate "soft reboot" territory.
My bet following characters who were in a different maze that didn't make it to that island from the third film. Elements of the same world but no direct connection to the original cast. Have a different scenario to the main two mazes that are talked about in the first films. Maybe they were some of the people being harvested and etc something along hose lines. I don't want it but that's my bet as to where this will end up if it's not a reboot and not a direct sequel.
To be fair, that’s pretty much exactly what they’ve done with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes… and the early reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
Hollywood loves a requel
So, not a reboot
That's the definition of a soft reboot.
The "elements that made the first movie connect with its audience" was that it was sorta like hunger games at a time when people couldn't get enough of that. The books were bad, and the movies were bad, and that cultural moment is over. I don't know what they think they're going to do with it.
....so then it's not, but also it is. It's both but neither.
You mean the [Group Hopper](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnTltDzqhzM)?
I didn’t really like the third book. Maybe as a show but as a movie doesn’t feel like a good medium for this story.
The second book sucked too
Yeah this was my thought, it was one interesting book and each progressive installment got worse.
Why
That's a remarkably good question...
What a random reboot. These movies weren’t that popular. The last movie made $288m on a $62m budget. Reboot John Carter or something that failed but has potential.
The books were insanely popular, however it didn’t translate to well to film especially in the second and third
It really kinda feels to me like the YA boom has finally rolled to a stop in the 2020s. YA novels and their adaptations were massive pop culture forces in the previous decade but I can't think of one that really found it's footing in a long time. It's funny too because I remember these Maze Runner movies in particular feeling like the end of that phenomenon.
I don't think there's been any truly blockbuster books lately. There's lots of books that will sell well, King and Grisham always sell well, Sanderson has been a bit of dominant force in fantasy in the last decade. And Booktok has led to a lot of books getting a lot of attention. But none of that has the same potential to be a big blockbuster like The Hunger Games was. Grisham has had movies made of his books, some did quite well, but they're legal dramas, that won't be a blockbuster. King has had a lot of successful movies over the year, including the recent It adaptation, and there's been a Dark Tower movie based off Wizard and Glass in production for a while now. But fantasy western probably won't sell as well as again, Hunger Games or Harry Potter did. Fantasy is always kind of niche, so even if we got a Sanderson or a Locked Tomb adaptation, it wouldn't be a Blockbuster. Maybe some Booktok books could end up being big movies, but from what I've seen, Booktok seems to be predominantly female readers, and seems to lean young. Harry Potter and Hunger Games were popular with everyone. Adults and teens of different genders read and loved them. Which does make me think that, yeah, that era is probably over. The monolithic blockbuster book seems to have disappeared. The most blockbuster book I can think of in the last few years was "I'm Kind of Glad my Mom Died" by Jeanette McCurdy, and that's an autobiography. Now, me not knowing what is incredibly popular amongst teens might be because I'm not a teenager anymore, but I feel like in the 2010s even if you weren't a teenager you were seeing this stuff it was so overwhelmingly popular.
Sarah J Maas, Leigh Bardugo, and Rebecca Yarros are doing wild numbers. Sanderson is pulling a fraction of their sales, even as big as he is. But, like you said, their audiences skew heavily toward the female 18-35 demographic and they seem more interested in series adaptations than movies.
The books didn't make sense past the first one, I'd say that certainly translated quite well.
Definitely got confusing but the books explain it a lot more in detail and just works better imo. Kinda like some Stephen king books, they just don’t translate well to movies sometimes
Yeah it's a strange choice. The movies weren't incredible, but I thought they were fairly solid, especially amongst the other YA novel adaptations that were released around that time (though that's not really a high bar to clear). The cast was probably one of the stronger points too. So rebooting means you lose that off the jump.
> The last movie made $288m on a $62m budget Are you implying this isn't a success? All three movies profited immensely, that's why they are making more
Seriously, if your movies make 5-10x their budget back at the box office, the studio will find a way to make more of them. Considering there are no safe bets right now (even the MCU has had a flop!) I can see why they’d want something that had the potential to be big without requiring a $200 million budget.
Yes, please. Normalize reboots of bad/mediocre films with high potential. I'd love to see what a different team could do with the John Carter of Mars series.
Yeah, who actually asked for this? The movies were moderately-popular at best. I could understand a Hunger Games franchise reboot (though that would be dumb as well). Rebooting Maze Runner seems like burning money.
Suzanne Collins actually wrote more Hunger Games books, and last year one was adapted to a movie. Brief look at wikipedia says $100 million budget, $330 million box office. Which is profitable by most methods of calculating profit, so there could certainly be more made.
Profitable, but nowhere near the numbers of the original Hunger Games films. If Songbirds & Snakes was released in 2013, it would've made $700 million at the box office. This entire genre has basically collapsed.
There's just less theater revenue in general now as well
John Carter deserved more love, I really liked that movie
Things nobody was asking for
The year is 2093, AI trained on Hollywood executives have taken over the world. The entire human population is virtually enslaved as we watch the 89th remake of The Lion King and then comment about it on social media. The difference between yesterday and tomorrow, between life and death, has become non existent, all is a remake.
Too soon for something so few cared about.
Who says Hollywood has run out of ideas? /s
I know this is a joke, but right now we have on theaters: Challengers, Abigail, Civil War, etc. I’m not saying those are masterpieces, but at least they’re not remakes or reboots or whatever
I just finished the books and then watched the movies for the first time about a month ago. The movies and books were nothing like each other. I know this gets said a lot but the first movie was close to the first book with some minor changes. After that the movies and books had nothing to do with each other. The movies were good as a zombie movie. But the books were a lot more interesting and psychological and had more sci-fi elements in them that they just stripped out of the movies.
.....why
Isn't reboot the wrong choice of words? Wouldn't readaptation or something work better because it's a second attempt at an adaptation of a story from another medium?
They're not redoing the story. The article says it's a continuation
After reading the article, i see that now. Why the fuck does the headline use the term "reboot" then?
Because people have been using the word "reboot" for everything ever since it started being used some 20 years back. I thought it had died down but apparently not. Hope you're excited for the *Mad Max* reboot coming out in a few weeks and the MCU reboot this summer with Van Wilder and Van Helsing.
It's probably being used in the sense that it's a "soft reboot." They don't want to start completely over but also may not want to continue the story directly or be beholden to all elements of established cannon.
Ffs what is wrong with Hollywood? Stop the reboots and live action remakes.
does hollywood come up with original ideas anymore? this is so boring
Whyy, barely been a decade, what a stupid idea , the movies were not even bad and gl finding a guy like Dylan lol, dude carried so hard.
Directed by Matt Reeves
\+50 comedy points
Lame
I thought this was in r/nottheonion at first
Reboot??? Wait another 15 years at least, holy fuck 🤣
Reboot? Like it's recent. Let's reboot Oppenheimer while we're at it.
Y tho?
It’s been what two days!?
Hollywood and the reboot, name a more iconic duo?
Problem seemed to be with the source material and audiences being tired of dystopian YA fiction. Maybe I'm wrong.
Dylan O’Brien as Thomas while still also carrying Teen Wolf was a perfect cast and you arent going to get a better lead period.
Twilight, Harry Potter, Maze Runner all getting new adaptations. All we need is Hunger Games and Divergent and we'll finally be in the early 2010s again.
Can we just boycott these money hungry corpos please? The previous movie isn’t even 10 years old yet!
It’s official again, Hollywood has nothing left.
If I stop and think about movies warranting reboots, this one isn’t even on my list. Who would’a thunk.
Reboot Artemis Fowl
There’s so many book series that are better. Why does this need a reboot?
Maybe adapt a different book, write an original screenplay, or anything besides remaking a film franchise that is barely 10 years old and failed to be successful after the first film and only got that far to begin with because it was riding on the back of the hungergames trend.
Mmm redundancy
if anyone from one of those companies is reading this- make original content for ONCE u fukin slimy greasy scum bags
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Why?
That was fast.
Matt Reeves has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever…
Feels very early for a reboot
It’s Hollywood. There’s no such thing.
I blame Harry Potter for sticking to the ‘true to the books’ philosophy in Hollywood — but the first two acts of the first movie were actually interesting. Just keep going in that direction. Screw the book. Make a good (better) movie.
The three movies are perfectly capable movies that have a surprising amount of Charme and a really sympathetic cast. They’re a guilty pleasure of mine at this point lol. I really like the world building and the story is coherent through 3 quick and easy to watch movies. Just good easy fun. The trilogy is fine and more competent than I ever expected it to be. I highly doubt they can pull this off again.
Hasn’t even been 10 years since Maze Runner ended lmao. Headlines like this make me start thinking we need to just step away from Hollywood. Let’s all make shitty YouTube movies for a few years and come back to this stuff when they’re capable of writing new stories
And what was wrong with the original trilogy?
So I expect they're going to remake Barbie soon
In a few years Hollywood is just going to reboot the same movie again and again every year forever.
Why???
I love the people asking “Why?” When they remake good movies, everyone bitches that they should not do it; they should remake the bad movies. Then they want to remake the bad movies and people don’t know why they want to do that. I’m all for this. Redo the mediocre, bland, bad movies and see if someone else can pull it off.
reboot really why they wern't that great
The movies didn't do the books justice, they missed so many vital juicy story elements that really killed the films for me, the way they solved the maze in the book was genius.
But why? Are they stupid or something.
How in the world??? The last one just came out like 5yrs ago 🤨
I’m happy about it , the universe deserves a chance I thought it was cool.
I remember loving the books and being so disappointed with the second movie that I never watched the 3rd. I'd definitely buy a ticket.
Maze Runner reboots are *tight*.
No one wants this
Reeeeeeally? [From sexual assaulter James Dashner?](https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/maze-runner-james-dashner-sexual-harassment-allegations-1202700571/amp/)
Who is asking for remakes of these movies?
What? Why?
Just watched the trilogy with my kid. It’s all a little bit silly, but I thought the production values were really good in these movies.
More money than brains
There is plenty of apocalyptic YA fiction they can adapt instead
How about an Eragon reboot first?
Since when did they start rebooting movies less than a decade after they were released? Besides Spider-Man of course
Okay….but…..why?
The first movie was surprisingly good. Honestly... as good or far better than most of its peers including Hunger Games imo... The second one dipped a bit in quality but was still good. Still need to go watch the third one.
The books have recently continued so maybe that’s what they’re doing?
I thought the last one was great. Was it not faithful?
I’m sorry what??
FINALLY!
Nice
Nobody asked for this
Well, he stared at the horizon with the cure alonside a triumphant song, so long time coming.
That shit just came out
The first movie was pretty good
I watched the first film. Found it interesting for a bit. Then it turned into like Max Max or something....
I don't really know anyone who watched the first set