Why! Oh Why!

Can no one who works in entertainment understand art at all?

A sequel to Donnie Darko has been announced and starts filming this month. This film is just set up to be a disaster. So far everything I have seen online has been negative with another site stating "Hollywood hates you."

The problem is just so fundamental. All reasons that the first film was so great, and why people reacted too it so strongly, cannot and will not be part of the sequel, and the simple existence of the sequel will cheapen those same qualities in the first. What made the original so great was how unique it was, the story, the tone of voices, and simple way it makes you feel are just unlike anything else. That uniqueness can never be part of the sequel since two identical pieces of art can not both be unique with the presence of the other.

The other fact is the first one just felt so non-commercial. It felt like a piece of art not a product. This sequel just has "cash in" written all over it.

Why can't people just let a good thing be?