Edgar Wright says directors have a duty to make original films whenever possible

Date:
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:31:14 +0000

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Last Night in Soho director Edgar Wright has weighed in on the role of modern filmmakers.

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Edgar Wright says that he believes directors have a duty to make original films if they are in a position to do so.

Speaking to TechRadar ahead of the release of his latest movie, Last Night
in Soho, the Baby Driver filmmaker said: I feel like it's my duty a director's duty to make an original film if youve got the opportunity to do so.

There are a lot of rehashes and reboots [out there], Wright added, and I
watch a lot of them, but there's a point where I kind of think, am I going to just repeat my childhood for the rest of my life? I don't need to see 10 versions of this.

While Wrights comments make no bold claims toward any particular movies he admits that he watches, and presumably enjoys, a lot of these rehashes and reboots they come at a time when Hollywood studios appear particularly risk-averse.

In our interview with the director, Wright didnt elaborate on this less-than-optimal state of cinematic affairs you can make your mind up about his newest effort this weekend, which releases on October 29.

Below, though, we'll dig into our own interpretation of the director's point about the current state of the movie industry. Analysis: Does Wright have a point?

Global pandemic notwithstanding, the last few years have, broadly speaking, seen studios demonstrate a rather overt preference for squeezing every last drop of profit from existing intellectual properties over commissioning brand new ideas from a variety of filmmakers.

The logic fits, too. If these studios own the rights to a bankable comic or novel series, for instance, it makes sense that they would do their utmost to cash in on the popularity of these properties by making and remaking as many movies and TV shows based on them as they possibly can.

Admittedly, many of these movies have been worth a watch Joker, for example, proved a refreshing take on a character weve seen portrayed on screen many times over but the next few years will see plenty more well-trodden narratives rehash[ed] and reboot[ed], and itd be a safe bet to assume that most will do little to reinvent their respective franchises.

To name just a few upcoming movies that fall into this category, theres The Matrix Resurrections , Indiana Jones 5 , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Wonka , Lightyear , Scream and Texas Chainsaw Massacre all projects that,
arguably, exist only to appease the nostalgic whims of already familiar audiences. (Image credit: Warner Bros.)

But perhaps, as a counterpoint, these nostalgic whims dont exist until were encouraged to manifest them by the unexpected announcements of said projects. Before it was revealed that Timothe Chalamet would be playing a young Willy Wonka in, erm, Wonka, who was actually crying out for an origin story about the fictional chocolatier?

Instead, then, maybe audiences flock to these reboots because there are so
few alternatives to engage their interest elsewhere.

Gaming, too, has a tendency to retread safe paths. Look no further than the recently announced Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy The Definitive Edition ; a title which tells you all you need to know about developers willingness (nay, desire) to rework old successes.

Sure, it might be an unfair assessment to compare two industries so generally in that way we know that a brand new Grand Theft Auto game takes more years to develop than a studio movie, for example but the sentiment remains the same.

We're sure that Wrights off-the-cuff comment wasn't meant as quite the same industry-spanning indictment as all of the above, but maybe culture really is stuck. These are the biggest new movies coming in 2021



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