Scream No Way Home Matrix Resurrections The Rise Of The Self Aware Sequel
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Scream, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and The Matrix Resurrections. Franchises have been the dominant force in Hollywood for a couple of decades now. Original stories are fading into obscurity as audiences find comfort in familiar characters and serialized narratives. Traditionally, sequels tell a new story about the same characters while trying to recapture what worked in the first one. The earliest franchises from the 1960s, like James Bond and Planet of the Apes, were straightforward episodic adventures....