Don't hold back, Mr. Mitchell, let 'em have it

James Bond, Jeeves and Philip Marlowe Return in New Books - NYTimes.com

“Our civilization echoes to the sound of the bottom of barrels being industriously scraped,” David Mitchell wrote in The Observer of London. “No franchise must be left unexploited, no film unremade, no TV series unreimagined in our commercial desperation to avoid the undignified recourse of trying to think of a new idea.” (For good measure, he said that hiring a “proper novelist” instead of a “hack” to write a sequel was “a bit like paying an actual film star to have sex with you rather than a prostitute.”)