That does not seem to have stopped them from making endless film adaptations of the book. Feels like there's been a new one every five years for my entire life.
I appreciated the comic book adaptation called Peter Panzerfaust, where the Lost Boys were a resistance cell in WWII, and Captain Hook was a Nazi officer. I assume that doesn't require licensing, because it just uses the ideas without reusing any specific, named elements. It would be better to make something completely original rather than just adapting old material, but that's evidently not possible anymore. So, the next best thing is to recontextualize it and change the idea enough, which not only makes for something novel, but also dodges these ridiculous legacy licensing issues in certain cases.
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That does not seem to have stopped them from making endless film adaptations of the book. Feels like there's been a new one every five years for my entire life.
I appreciated the comic book adaptation called Peter Panzerfaust, where the Lost Boys were a resistance cell in WWII, and Captain Hook was a Nazi officer. I assume that doesn't require licensing, because it just uses the ideas without reusing any specific, named elements. It would be better to make something completely original rather than just adapting old material, but that's evidently not possible anymore. So, the next best thing is to recontextualize it and change the idea enough, which not only makes for something novel, but also dodges these ridiculous legacy licensing issues in certain cases.