This is why we don't see new and fresh ideas in movies, video games, TV, etc.
You have to pitch something that is similar enough to something else that made a zillion dollars.
you are essentially made to be a scam artist if you want to be an artist who is funded
the formula is simply: find out what the most recent art the person with money was impressed by the success of—not even the art, but the SUCCESS of the art—and pitch them a carbon copy of that