Summary

In recent years, interest in fan fiction has risen right alongside Hollywood’s persistent investment in adapting pre-existing IP. Novels and plays in the book-to-screen pipeline are now simply another part of the ecosystem, and it seems fanfic as a viable IP isn’t just the latest trend, but an industry-wide move to appeal directly to pre-existing fanbases and trust narratives that have been tried and tested repeatedly.

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