Is Fan Fiction Really the Next Frontier in IP?
IndieWire looks at fan fiction's rising profile as Hollywood keeps leaning on existing intellectual property, arguing that studios see fanfic as a way to appeal directly to existing fanbases with tried-and-tested stories.
Modern fanfic is often traced to Star Trek fanzines of the late 1960s. Today it lives mostly online: Archive of Our Own hosts more than 18 million works across over 81,250 fandoms and averages more than 125 million page views a day.
On screen, the fanfic-to-film pipeline is still young. The first major commercial hit was 2015's Fifty Shades of Grey, adapted from E. L. James' 2011 novel, which began as fan fiction.
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