WolvDragon said:
Since when is Amazing Spider-Man a remake? It's a reboot.
Every remake is a reboot but we only describe it as one when it's the first movie in a series.
Anyway, it's quite simple- money. Companies prefer to take as little risk as possible and hollywood discovered that people will go see something they recognize. This includes entire plots they have already seen. So why take the risk with an original idea? no reason to, it's better to reduce the risk of the investment.
This goes beyond remakes. Go over the movies released this year. How many are sequals? remakes? based on books or comics? how many borrow something familiar (Pac-man and other 80's classic games in Pixels for example)?
Compare that to movies released in say 1998, how many sequals, remakes, book adaptations etc in that year? There's an undeniable trend at work.
They just want anything you'll recognize in the movie- original idea are an unknown, and unknown is risky. Making something completely new? an original idea never seen before? fuck that noise this is business- not art.