This is all about the amount of money going into these movies. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake it's much safer to rehash an existing franchise li

This is all about the amount of money going into these movies. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake it's much safer to rehash an existing franchise like Top Gun than to give directors and screenwriters the creative freedom they need to come up with interesting new stories. Wokeness is just a symptom of producers putting money where they think ticket-buyers want. If they thought there was more money to be made appealing to MAGA they'd do that instead. The stuff coming out of Korea, Denmark, France, Finland, etc, is made with much lower budgets. They can afford to take risks.