Alan Moore sums up everything that’s wrong with the entertainment industry

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. As a result, there's a growing number of professional writers now going to small presses, self-publishing, or trying other kinds of [distribution] strategies. The same is true of music and cinema. It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you've got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

You know, I'd totally go see a movie of Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch....

You know, I'd totally go see a movie of Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch....

Would you go see Bob Hoskins play one of the Super Mario brothers?

Possibly?

For the Crunch movie, they could get James Marsters or John Barrowman as part of Crunch's crew.

"Crunchitize me, Cap'n!"

John Barrowman as part of Crunch's crew.

I would see that movie on opening night.

So many remakes! That never happened before, and nothing good can ever come of it. No one ever made a movie or TV show or song off a spuriously slight initial concept and just ran with some shit and ended up with anything entertaining--before it used to be hours and hours of research and collation and correlation before an idea was even raised.

I hate newfangled everything. Everything sucks.

I saw that Lionsgate (I think) is remaking Rebecca. THERE IS NO NEED FOR THIS. I don't get it.

I KNOW! I totally want to grab Hollywood by its lapels and shout, "Have an idea!"

I see at least one Hollywood movie in the theatre a month. Call me a slut without discretion, but I enjoy at least half of those, and I know that there are movies I don't see in the cinema that were worth watching too.

Let's not talk about the amount of TV I enjoy. Or that Shakespeare used other people's ideas. Flat out: the amount of fiction I find to consume and enjoy is not insufficient in any way in 2012. So I don't care.

If someone makes a really good Rebecca movie, then great! I hope plenty of people enjoy and appreciate both making and watching it.

I guess I'm a husk like Sean. rosenbaum doesn't hit my buttons.

A new version of Rebecca certainly won't tarnish the old one, but there are so many new books out there that could be adapted, and screenwriters writing original scripts, I can't see the point in remaking something that was done nearly perfectly the first time around. It's a great story, but there are a lot of those if you know where to look.

And it's not to say that I won't see a remake, because curiosity alone would demand it. I watched the remake of Psycho, but that seems like a great case in point -- it was supposed to be almost identical shot for shot, unless I'm remembering wrong, but it was in color. And the point of that was ...?