Well, something almost exactly like this happened to the people at Pixar and Disney a few years ago when they looked at their IP and had the blinding flash that they could build a new animated action franchise based on an iconic character from the very first Pixar film: Toy Story ’s Buzz Lightyear.
Watch as a young Frank Drebin breaks up a drug ring as he learns he has to rely on his partners and not go it alone! Yeah… nah. And it comes to you: You could redo The Naked Gun, only… serious! You discover that you possess the rights to the farcical Naked Gun series. So say you’re a movie studio executive desperately looking through your backlog of titles for some 'intellectual property' you already own that you can exploit.
