Same but expanding has been a bad sale lately because it pisses off old nerds or only appeases them because they focus on stories we already know the beginning and end to.

And apparently we can’t trust to tell a completely new story in the same world as that would kill the merchandise already made of characters you wish to keep around forever in their collectors packaging.

Basically people are scared to step in any direction in case it is wrong and impacts the profit.
So remake, that isn’t too different but younger.