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future history of fandom
Feb. 11th, 2010 12:59 pmSkip this one unless you're interested in fanfiction.
So right now, in the fanfic world that I browse at least, two relatively popular fandoms, Star Trek:Reboot and Sherlock Holmes, happen to be cases where there was a preexisting fandom and then a popular new movie brought in a bunch of new writers mostly interested in the new version. And there is a whole discussion to be had of the various ways that these writers position their fic with respect to the old canon/fandom, whether they get interested in it and start mining it for ideas (or try to reconcile it with the new version), or ignore it and feel that the new source can stand alone. This is certainly not a new thing - there was an X-Men comics fandom before people started writing fic based on the movies, and I'm sure there are even older examples I'm not aware of. But I think it's safe to assume that, given Hollywood's love of remakes (and the shortening remake cycle) and basing movies off of books, comics, or anything other than original ideas, this is going to start happening more and more.
What I want to know is, how long before we start seeing this with RPF - real person fic? Will a bunch of teens in 2020 be writing fic about "Glam: The Adam Lambert Story", starring some kid who's in junior high right now, and that's who they'll think of as the canonical Adam Lambert? (Adam Lambert was a recent American Idol contestant.) I don't just mean "people writing RPF based primarily on a dramatization where the real person was played by someone else", but "people doing that when there was also a prior fandom around the real person". I did some cursory searching on AO3 to see if it had happened already and didn't find anything, but it's a somewhat complicated search.
What are your predictions for the timeframe of this development? Will it be someone who's famous now who's the subject, or someone not yet famous? Bonus points for titling and/or casting the biopic: "Don't Stop Short: The Derek Jeter Story", starring Jaden Smith. (Derek Jeter is the shortstop for the Yankees.)
So right now, in the fanfic world that I browse at least, two relatively popular fandoms, Star Trek:Reboot and Sherlock Holmes, happen to be cases where there was a preexisting fandom and then a popular new movie brought in a bunch of new writers mostly interested in the new version. And there is a whole discussion to be had of the various ways that these writers position their fic with respect to the old canon/fandom, whether they get interested in it and start mining it for ideas (or try to reconcile it with the new version), or ignore it and feel that the new source can stand alone. This is certainly not a new thing - there was an X-Men comics fandom before people started writing fic based on the movies, and I'm sure there are even older examples I'm not aware of. But I think it's safe to assume that, given Hollywood's love of remakes (and the shortening remake cycle) and basing movies off of books, comics, or anything other than original ideas, this is going to start happening more and more.
What I want to know is, how long before we start seeing this with RPF - real person fic? Will a bunch of teens in 2020 be writing fic about "Glam: The Adam Lambert Story", starring some kid who's in junior high right now, and that's who they'll think of as the canonical Adam Lambert? (Adam Lambert was a recent American Idol contestant.) I don't just mean "people writing RPF based primarily on a dramatization where the real person was played by someone else", but "people doing that when there was also a prior fandom around the real person". I did some cursory searching on AO3 to see if it had happened already and didn't find anything, but it's a somewhat complicated search.
What are your predictions for the timeframe of this development? Will it be someone who's famous now who's the subject, or someone not yet famous? Bonus points for titling and/or casting the biopic: "Don't Stop Short: The Derek Jeter Story", starring Jaden Smith. (Derek Jeter is the shortstop for the Yankees.)
