Re: Seems to me that a rarity...
" Seems to me that a rarity in the film industry is a novel script."
I was under the impression that the golden age of sci-fi created larger heaps of novel scripts (well, novel to most people today - sci-fi buffs would probably call them old hat) than Hollywood could possibly consume in the next century. Instead, it seems to me the rarity is someone actually willing to take ANY risk on something that isn't proven to be a formerly successful blockbuster, ie. "a sequel".
Also, I suspect there's a limited number of different ways one can make a movie while ensuring that absolutely, strictly zero need for grey matter is involved (and JJ seems to have used up most of them) - the poor viewing public seems to be easily confused by any moral ambiguity or upset by any challenge to their values or indeed the mere lack of a happy ending or a triumphant hero. There's only so many flavours of anodyne...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
