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<blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 8852928" data-attributes="member: 7037141"><p>The Writers Strike of 2007-2008 was a significant event in hollywood. Writers went on a unified strike, putting the entire industry on hold. If you look at 2008-2009, you will see different writing credits than before (although the strike did eventually end in favor of the writers). Daniel Craig had to write the script for the 2008 bond film because their writer went on strike, and he discussed it in interviews saying it was a very difficult process and the film may have suffered as a result. After that its hard to find films taking many risks in the industry.</p><p></p><p>The 90's was the end of risk-taking in the film industry. You saw films like Dark City, Seven, Pi, Cube, Natural Born Killers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Twelve Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Gattaca, Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, and so on. It was a completely different landscape in terms of creativity compared to today.</p><p></p><p>Blade Runner was seen as a disaster upon its release, and had frequent problems during production, its almost a miracle it was made at all. And yet, it changed the entire dominant aesthetic and gave birth to the visual influences now prevalent in the cyberpunk genre. Films like that don't exist today because companies won't gamble on new ideas. Instead of getting Neuromancer or Snow Crash we get Blade Runner 2049 dash 2.0.</p><p></p><p>-> Unfortunately it boils down to risk and returns on investment. They are in the business of making money as the first priority, so they will take the safe bet every time (remakes ect) rather than take a risk on an unknown quantity.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I doubt we will ever get to see it, but Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles would be right up at the top of that list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Waring, post: 8852928, member: 7037141"] The Writers Strike of 2007-2008 was a significant event in hollywood. Writers went on a unified strike, putting the entire industry on hold. If you look at 2008-2009, you will see different writing credits than before (although the strike did eventually end in favor of the writers). Daniel Craig had to write the script for the 2008 bond film because their writer went on strike, and he discussed it in interviews saying it was a very difficult process and the film may have suffered as a result. After that its hard to find films taking many risks in the industry. The 90's was the end of risk-taking in the film industry. You saw films like Dark City, Seven, Pi, Cube, Natural Born Killers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Twelve Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, The Crow, Gattaca, Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, and so on. It was a completely different landscape in terms of creativity compared to today. Blade Runner was seen as a disaster upon its release, and had frequent problems during production, its almost a miracle it was made at all. And yet, it changed the entire dominant aesthetic and gave birth to the visual influences now prevalent in the cyberpunk genre. Films like that don't exist today because companies won't gamble on new ideas. Instead of getting Neuromancer or Snow Crash we get Blade Runner 2049 dash 2.0. -> Unfortunately it boils down to risk and returns on investment. They are in the business of making money as the first priority, so they will take the safe bet every time (remakes ect) rather than take a risk on an unknown quantity. I doubt we will ever get to see it, but Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles would be right up at the top of that list. [/QUOTE]
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