Innovation & progress would always be a key ingredient of successful attempts. But, as usual it's like mowing the lawn beginning with the roots.
If we postulate that SciFi is a result of masters such as Fritz Lang or even Ray Bradbury along side Isaac Asimov (see the pattern? Authors!) who is there to seed back the lawn, anew?
What happened is this;
- Corporate greed of industrial production (as in the Art form of Cinema) lost any respect for their source material -- a looooooong time ago * in a Galaxy close, close away.
- Writers have been enslaved by producers, directors & actors. Secondary or very last class in the food chain. All the way down into responsability for the creative original idea.
- Contracts are made up in a way that every last author LOSE their rights over the creative part *and* of the property itself. Believe me, i know from personal experience.
- Big film making companies (Fox, WB, Sony, Paramount, etc) own the entire jar and with their TeeVee networks partnership, distribute the lifespan of anything under a grasp tighter than the paperwork signed by literary agents on behalf of exploited poets of the typewriters.
- Investors suck up the remaining profits if any.
Sure there is the rare lucky ones (J.K Rowling & her Harry Potter series of novels comes to mind, all of as sudden)... but tell me, does Marvel Comics ring any bells to you also?
I sure wasn't born when these Super-Heroes sold by the millions off library shelves!
- Then came along the re-runs simply cuz they ran out of pen holding slaves that would scribble a few magic lines for .0000005% of the Artistic cuts.
Seen a movie generic lately?
DIRECTED by.
PRODUCED by.
WRITTEN by.
Insert your favorite multi-millionaires a pop ACTED by group here.
THEN, 120 minutes worth on average of READ the lines on that script and show us emotions while you're at it & perform for the next Oscar reward race.
FOLLOWED up after the End by about 5 minutes worth of casts & crews & ambiance songs paid for too, btw.
It is a collaborative medium (i know that much) and yet, only Shane Black got somehow rich selling (ah, giving it away) the scenario of Lethal Weapon, partly.
