{"id":428,"date":"2020-04-21T21:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/?p=428"},"modified":"2020-04-22T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:33:47","slug":"hollywood-recycles-actors-in-recycled-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2020\/04\/21\/hollywood-recycles-actors-in-recycled-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood recycles actors in recycled plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Hollywood is loathe to do anything novel and is obsessed with remakes, but they also make &#8220;new&#8221; movies by recycling plots as well, even if they&#8217;re not direct remakes. But they&#8217;re so loathe to do anything new, that they&#8217;ll even go so far as to reuse the same actors when they recycle plots.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Dennis Quaid starred in the movie <em>Cold Creek Manor<\/em>, in which he played a man who bought a house that was foreclosed on by the bank and seized from Stephen Dorf&#8217;s character, but Dorf&#8217;s character wouldn&#8217;t accept it and refused to leave and terrorized the new owner and his family.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Dennis Quaid starred in the movie <em>The Intruder<\/em> in which he played a man who sells his house to a man (played by  Michael Ealy) and his wife, but then refuses to leave and terrorizes them.<\/p>\n<p>I expect Michael Ealy to star in a movie in 2035 as a man who refuses to leave his old home and terrorize the new owners. \u00ac_\u00ac<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_430\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Cold-Creek-Manor-2003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Cold-Creek-Manor-2003-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from \u201cCold Creek Manor\u201d with Dennis Quaid and Stephen Dorf\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Cold-Creek-Manor-2003-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Cold-Creek-Manor-2003-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Cold-Creek-Manor-2003.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>Cold Creek Manor<\/em> (2003)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_429\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/The-Intruder-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/The-Intruder-2019-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot from \u201cThe Intruder\u201d with Dennis Quaid and Michael Ealy\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/The-Intruder-2019-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/The-Intruder-2019-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/The-Intruder-2019.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>The Intruder<\/em> (2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Hollywood is loathe to do anything novel and is obsessed with remakes, but they also make &#8220;new&#8221; movies by recycling plots as well, even if they&#8217;re not direct remakes. But they&#8217;re so loathe to do anything new, that they&#8217;ll even go so far as to reuse the same actors when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}