Nina Metz: ‘Ferris Bueller 2!’ With every reboot, spinoff or sequel, I think: Make it stop. Hollywood will not stop
There is no such thing as a new idea. Mark Twain made that observation, and who knew he would be anticipating Hollywood’s compulsion to reboot and spinoff and treat any stand-alone story as a launchpad for an entire universe of stories.
Everything old is new again. And again. And again.
Did you hear there’s a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” in the works? An “Ally McBeal” , too. Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in a “Road House” and there’s a “Dirty Dancing” on its way. A rebooted “Quantum Leap” on NBC this fall. Disney+ is a live-action King Kong series, while Netflix has its own anime version on the “The Wizard of Oz,” and that’s on top of another Oz movie that’s in development. A reimagining of Clive Barker’s “Hellraiser” will premiere on Hulu, while Apple TV+ has a “Godzilla”-something coming. “Planet of the Apes” is being reborn as well — actually the most I read referred to it as “the next series of ‘Planet of the Apes’ films.” Films, plural.
