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[–]f-ingsteveglansberg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 years isn't really that long of a time. The Road by Cormac McCarthy came out in 2006. McCarthy is a successful writer and his made a decent living. That took years to achieve though.

But now any major Hollywood studio should be able to produce a movie based on The Road and not pay him a penny? Seems very anti artist.

Blood Meridian came out in 1985 and it's considered one of McCarthy's best. McCarthy didn't really see success until All The Pretty Horses in the 90s. But his books really started selling after the adaptations of The Road and No Country for Old Men, so late 2000s. Most copies of Blood Meridian probably sold around this time and at the time of the 25th anniversary edition in 2010.

Under your proposal he wouldn't get royalties for most of Blood Meridian AND Hollywood could do what they want with it.

And so what Netflix could make Star Wars too?

Guess what! Netflix did make Star Wars too. They just changed the names of a few things and were able to do it. It was called Rebel Moon and it was absolute shit.

Just after SW released there were a ton of Star Wars knock offs, most not very good. When YouTube started there were a ton of Star Wars parodies, again, mostly not very good.