If we're brutally honest, the Hollywood film machine isn't exactly known for it's creativity. Sure it manages to make a great film every now and then, but as far as I can figure when you throw that many knives, at least one of them is going to hit the target. It's the success via shotgun approach.
As a result, movies tend to go through trends until you get such a colossal failure that the studios won't touch a film like that for a long time. A superhero film went well? Let's license every comic property we can! Sci-Fi film just made some money? time to raid Philip K. Dick's short stories again. Someone just get a smash hit from a sequel? I'm sure we've got something lying around here ...
You get the idea. So when the latest Star Trek film made good, it logically follows that we're going to see a flurry of "remakes". These are making the studios salivate even more, because if they do get a hit then there's not just merchandising to milk; why, you could start a whole TV series as well!
Which brings me to my point. News comes out today that they're looking at making a
Whedon-less version of Buffy, in an attempt to reboot the series. A part of me just died inside.