IS ORIGINALITY OVERRATED? Why Hollywood Keeps Telling the Same Stories

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood has run out of ideas. We’ve all heard it: sequels, remakes, reboots, franchises, adaptations, spin-offs and prequels. But what if we’re asking the wrong question? In this episode of The Fixate & Binge Podcast, we tackle the increasingly common complaint that Hollywood has “run out of ideas” and ask whether originality itself may be overrated in cinema. Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: how many truly original stories are there? Shakespeare didn’t invent ev...