Part of it has to do with a newer generation of writers and movie-makers who were raised in the 90s and early 2000s, who never got a chance to see what real creativity looked like. Many of the writers we have in show biz today don't even know what the world was like before the internet came onto the scene. Too many never sat down with a book, saw the older films, or even tried to come up with something original.
Another issue was the Writer's Strike that took place in 2008. Many good writers for tv shows and movies were angry that they weren't being given credit or paid royalties for all the DVD sets being sold with THEIR work on it. Even worse, when the lawsuit was finally settled, a large chunk of those writers were fed up with what Hollywood and tv had become and quit in anger. If you take a close look, you can see the difference in tv shows and movies after 2008, how their quality declines sharply. Some tv shows died immediately from lack of creative writers, and it's been getting worse for the past 11 years.
One final issue is something I saw someone else bring up many times on this site. Hollywood's playing it safe by working within a certain "comfort zone" of films that are guaranteed to get butts into theater seats, and that's one reason they've made so many superhero movies in the past decade. They're also terrified of trying something new, for fear that they won't get as much money out of it, or they know it'll be a failure, due to the lack of truly talented writers available.
However, I think the bad re-boots are just as poor a gamble as trying something different from the norm.
It also doesn't help that Hollywood has been alienating some of their largest customer bases over the past 3 years alone, simply due to letting politics and ideologies get in the way. It's very sad to watch.
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