{"id":1608,"date":"2008-11-29T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2008-11-29T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T14:36:52","slug":"the_challenge_of_remakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/11\/29\/the_challenge_of_remakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of Remakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/herocomplex\/2008\/11\/the-aquaman-pro.html\">interview<\/a> with Dan DiDio, an executive at DC Comics, and I thought the following remark (made in reference to the challenges comics people face with some of their long-running characters) tied in quite nicely to I was trying to say about remakes in the previous entry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou have to remember, a lot of our fan base has been reading comics 20 or 30 years now. They&#8217;ve seen a lot of stories and a lot of things. We&#8217;re always trying to find a way to give them something new but also give them exactly what they want.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the same challenge J.J. Abrams is facing, isn&#8217;t it? He&#8217;s got to do something new with <i>Star Trek<\/i>, but he&#8217;s also got to give us, well, <i>Star Trek<\/i>, or else he fails. I certainly wouldn&#8217;t want his job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading an interview with Dan DiDio, an executive at DC Comics, and I thought the following remark (made in reference to the challenges comics people face with some of their long-running characters) tied in quite nicely to I was trying to say about remakes in the previous entry: You have to remember, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}