Deck the Hoyles!
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If there’s a single movie that sums up how sequels, reboots and comic book adaptations dominate the box office, it’s Ready Player One. Which means the film’s co-writer Zak Penn is in a good position to weight up whether the blockbuster bubble of familiar franchises is about to burst.
Penn has made a career writing comic book adaptations from the X-Men to the Avengers, but he admits some viewers might be growing weary of spectacle-driven effects-saturated blockbusters. “I get a little tired of seeing movies where I can predict where the ending is going,” he says. “You have to do something different. You really can’t just give [viewers] the same-old same-old, and I know the people at Marvel and DC are acutely aware of…
