Probably worth noting before I dive in here, that my latest release is a fairytale mashup, so obviously I am on the side of various existing intellectual property. And of course, as an author, some of books have been scraped to feed so called AI without consent or payment.
I think there's a kind of prevailing ugh about things based on existing properties, aka IP that is mostly about the fact that we are on the zillionth Superman and Spiderman remakes. And yes, not saying none of these have been interesting or delightful. They have.
But most musicals are based on IP. And I love a musical. What I suspect some people are tired of is not IP per se, but use of such a limited part of the IP.
I had proposed a rule for one of my book clubs that we only read two books by any author. Not because there aren't authors I am basically willing to read whatever they write. There are. But there are so many authors out there. Half the fun, to me at least, of book club is discovering authors you wouldn't otherwise have tried. And honestly it's a monthly book club. 12 authors a year is really very few when you look at the literally hundreds of books published each week.
Same with TV and movies. Part of the challenge is that people who make TV and movies are very busy, so they have little time to consume other entertainment. So when they do, they mostly reach for stuff they loved before they became a TV or movie person. Which means so much of what we see is on a weird delay.
Sure there are exceptions, but the exceptions are the really huge things. Things that even people who barely read know is a book.
Speaking of which, I am actually up to date on a TV show. Shocking news. I watched "Murderbot". It is based on a book. I think it probably is enjoyable to those who haven't read the book, but YMMV.
