>>11221978Because filmmaking in the 21st century, unironically, is a form of investment. It's a business decision made by businessmen with a goal of mitigating as much risk in said investment as physically possible.
You pick actors and actresses who you can reasonably calculate a bare minimum box office return for, regardless of if they're the best for the role. You pick directors who are either entirely milquetoast because they don't take risks, or directors who have themselves created brands around their directorial work so they've already been in the industry for decades. You remove any material that may risk success in overseas markets, especially China (where you may get an even larger return on your investment than domestically, like in the case of something like The Mummy remake). And most importantly, you pick the most risk-averse scripts run through fifty stages of test audiences and focus groups with risky moments or endings that somehow made it through this meat-grinder to this point finally being removed and reshot at the end of production because the lowest common denominator didn't "get it" or it wasn't a "happy" end.