People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.
But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.
I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

