the reason only remakes ever get made these days is because every single truly original idea that can possibly exist in the universe has been used up by people who pitched them in some two-line midnight shitpost somewhere and never did anything with them beyond that.
if any movie studio ever dared to make something actually creative, it would be revealed within a week that the exact same idea, close enough to be legally plagiarism, was done two years previously in a Tumblr post that got 12,559 notes including screenshots stolen for twitter and reddit.
