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Aside from Batman v Superman, DC has scheduled dates for nine other releases up until 2020, including a reboot of Green Lantern, a character last played by Ryan Reynolds in a disappointing 2011 release.
Twelve years after The Sum of All Fears, franchise reboot Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, lands in the UK with an OK £1.28m.
Then there was the move (most likely fuelled by a desire to hold on to the rights) to reboot the property just five years later, with Andrew Garfield replacing Tobey Maguire and Marc Webb taking over from Raimi; the storyline failed to veer significantly from the origins story detailed in Spider-Man just a decade before.
The flipside to this burger is that the level of noise is likely to be a one-off and any future revivals will smack of a rehash of a reboot, which is possibly one step too post-mod for the old golden arches.
It's felt more like dragging a dead body up a long flight of stairs than bearing witness to the reboot of the glorious cycle of life.
"Better to let the Patriot Act sunset and reboot the conversation with a more fulsome debate," said Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Containing all the drama and double-crossing the Dallas reboot should have had, The Royals is less Wolf Hall, more Downton Abbey: The Panto.
NBC does have some other comedies it is holding for mid-season, including the much-derided reboot of Coach, parents living with grown kids comedy Crowded, Telenovela parody Hot and Bothered starring Eva Longoria, and Superstore where America Ferrara works at someplace that is suspiciously like Best Buy.
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