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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Anyone watching the new Matlock with Kathy Bates? I dove right in as soon as I saw it in my recommended... but it turns out she's only coincidentally a lawyer named Matlock, and she has no other connection to the OG character beyond the same name/profession.
Is this how you reboot a show without having to purchase any of the IP? Just seems weird.
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The other way around is more likely. The original was a Viacom production, so CBS/Paramount (which would own Viacom's IP from the various sales and mergers that have happened over the last 30 years) should own the original Matlock IP.
In recent years, Hollywood has gone crazy with the reboots... Some, like Magnum PI, took the premise and characters from the original and updated them for the present day. Many, like Frasier and Will & Grace, were just the same actors and characters however many years later. Others still, which it sounds like Matlock falls under, took the title and very rough premise, but went in a completely original direction.
I don't know what happened in this case, but sometimes, the studios will buy an existing script and change a couple of characters to make it fit into IP they already control. I believe that happened with Die Hard 2, they bought a script for another story and changed the main character to John McClane and it was suddenly a Die Hard sequel. Oddly, as it turns out, the story for Speed 2 had started as a possible idea for another Die Hard sequel.