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These days it's always money, creative bankruptcy, or some combination of the two. They've been strip-mining the corpse of 20th Century pop culture for decades now. Even in the last century they made more and more sequels, each less substantial than the one before.
The banksters who front the money for all of this know nothing about the creative process, but they believe, perhaps with some justification, that making a sequel, making a film using an intellectual property that already exists, a "brand" people recognize, gives them a slightly better chance of breaking even. Creating something original is always risky.
And Hollyweird is full of fat spiteful purple-haired art school grads with "feminist glasses," who look to something like this, consider for a moment that there might be some Gen-Xers still alive out there who have fond memories of the Saturday morning cartoon, and decide they really want to shit all over it, destroy it, and rub every huh-WITE! person's nose in the flaming ruins they're going to make out of it. There's going to be DEI voice acting casting, soulless fugly CGI, and, I am going to guess, one or more characters are going to be GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY, because that's part of [ fx = echo ] THE MESSAGE [ /fx ]. It will be created with the intent that it cause you discomfort at the very least to look upon it, better if it leaves you horrified. Just like everything else they do.