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For the people who haven’t read the article, Spielberg is mostly referring to the 2002 rerelease of ET which replaced guns with walkie-talkies. The topic is a

For the people who haven’t read the article, Spielberg is mostly referring to the 2002 rerelease of ET which replaced guns with walkie-talkies. The topic is a bit tiring to me, mainly because revising old media doesn’t really seem to be something a whole lot of people want, but it sells clicks. It’s not that it doesn’t happen or it’s not bad, but it’s so rare that it’s hardly worth mentioning. You can find a handful of cases and stretch them into news stories for months.

Veen 3y ago
It depends what you mean by rare. In the UK it's a story because it's happened to Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl. Christie is the biggest selling fiction author of all time. Roald Dahl is among the biggest selling children's authors of all time—he's on a par with Tolkien for sales. So it's not that rare.
- suddenclarity 3y ago
  To add to this. James Bond is currently being rewritten. Disney have banned stories by Don Rosa to be published again. Pippi Longstocking was rewritten after the authors death. Tintin went through court in Belgium in an attempt to ban it. It's definitely happening to a lot of well-known stories and isn't a fringe movement that OP is claiming.