Yes, producers do ask for making projects that create online conversation and discourse. They want the engagement regardless if its positive or negative.
Y'know, every one of these movies has at least one pointless change that does nothing but undermine the entire point of the original. I had always thought that was incompetence... I had never considered it might be deliberate.
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It's weird.. like the world outside this bubble seems fine with them?!
1st- that, gives them publicity because there's no such thing as bad publicity
2nd- it's so they can hold on to their IPs even longer, because heaven forbid they fall in public domain
3rd- they're low effort money printers even if the movie flops, due to merch via point 1