About the IP craze - this is why we're drowning in remakes of remakes of reboots of based on based on etc. - apparently everyone loves it, including the creatives... so there is no hope it'll stop, ever:
https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/07/why-are-so-many-pre-existing-ips-turning-to-tv-its-complicated/
Depressing.
https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/07/why-are-so-many-pre-existing-ips-turning-to-tv-its-complicated/
Depressing.