Are remakes ruining entertainment?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Are remakes ruining entertainment?". Your opponent's style: Oscar Wilde

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Remakes aren't ruining entertainment—they're democratizing it. Consider that many people discover classics *through* remakes: the 2019 Lion King introduced millions to a story they'd never have encountered otherwise. Remakes also fund original projects. Studios use remake profits to bankroll experimental indie films and risky narratives that wouldn't get greenlit otherwise. The real issue isn't remakes existing—it's that you assume originality died. Yet we're drowning in fresh voices right now. Succession, The Bear, Dune: Part Two, Everything Everywhere All at Once. These exist *alongside* remakes, not instead of them. You're lamenting a golden age that never was. Entertainment's always recycled stories. Shakespeare stole plots. Remakes are just the modern equivalent of retelling myths. So tell me: what's the actual victim here?