Traditional storytelling is dead, and it’s kind of everyone’s fault.
More specifically, traditional storytelling in which there is a clear beginning, middle, and end is a thing of the past. Studios want something familiar and neverending. They want the intellectual property, brand recognization, and an interconnecting universe with characters that audiences are already connected to. So, they leave the ending open to the possibility of a bigger story just beyond the horizon. What we watched was just the beginning of a much larger story.
That’s right, we are talking about franchise sequels and the death of the true sequel.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
