I know. I got a list now that could keep me occupied for the rest of my life in terms of catching up to it. Even if they stopped making new tv shows and movies and all we had was reruns to last us.
Jason
What properties or shows are you surprised nobody has rebooted?
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I know. I got a list now that could keep me occupied for the rest of my life in terms of catching up to it. Even if they stopped making new tv shows and movies and all we had was reruns to last us.
Jason
It started to feel like a job. Oh no, I haven't watch the new season of The Expanse yet! Or Vikings! Or American God's! et
One of my favorite films was Masque of the Red Death. Now, it incorporates another Poe story called Hop-Frog, that was going to be filmed as “The Jester” with Peter Dinklage.
Now, that revenge story is a little bare. I might have Dinklage AS Prospero of sorts, an incorporate some of the Cthulhu game supplement “Tatterdemalion” from Chaosium to flesh things out.
In that game, a wronged playwright also gets revenge on his foes one at a time.
Here, I might thwart the audience by having Peter voice-over some dialogue about the victim of the moment, as if responsible for the death. I would only show him actually do the chandelier scene offing of his chief enemy, with Tripetta sickened. We learn now that Dinklage was not in fact responsible for those deaths—he hadn’t gotten around to them yet. The corpses are now performing a play....The King in Yellow.
Hijinx ensue
Now, that revenge story is a little bare. I might have Dinklage AS Prospero of sorts, an incorporate some of the Cthulhu game supplement “Tatterdemalion” from Chaosium to flesh things out.
In that game, a wronged playwright also gets revenge on his foes one at a time.
Here, I might thwart the audience by having Peter voice-over some dialogue about the victim of the moment, as if responsible for the death. I would only show him actually do the chandelier scene offing of his chief enemy, with Tripetta sickened. We learn now that Dinklage was not in fact responsible for those deaths—he hadn’t gotten around to them yet. The corpses are now performing a play....The King in Yellow.
Hijinx ensue
I don't think it was fantasy, just the regular Dark Ages. I might be mistaken, but I don't remember there being any kind of magic or monsters or anything like that, at least in the episode I saw.
The movie lost me when it ground to a halt so they could make some anti-Trump jokes. Oh, like that isn't going to date the movie horribly in a few years!
I like fake talk shows. I highly recommend Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge.
My pitch is that they should do a western. It's simple: Take the plot of High Noon and put Kermit in the Gary Cooper role, running around town trying to corral all of the other Muppet townsfolk into helping him fight the bad guys. I even know what the title should be: The Good, the Bad, & the Muppet.
You had me at Karen Gillan!
She's just the most adorable creature on the planet.Yeah, kinda like the John Carter movie. All of the good ideas had already been picked clean by stuff like Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, and Dune.
That too. I completely forgot about that, but yes, talk about being anachronistic! Plus the monarchy jokes were pretty bad given the context of Americans playing British figures. Ended up feeling like a jab within a jab and really felt off to me.
As others have said, Highlander. The show, though, not the movies. There's so much more that could be done with the show. I recently rewatched a bunch of episodes and damn, that show was fun!
I won a contest for Best Quickening at a con that Adrian Paul hosted. So weird hearing the Highlander with an English accent.
Best Quickening contest? That sounds really cool.
I always had an idea for a Highlander scene (maybe they did this on the show at some point? I don't know.) where they'd have a swordfight in a store that sells glass figurines. Throughout the fight, the nervous, nebbish little shopkeeper runs around trying to prevent any of the priceless items from being knocked over or damaged. Then, at the end, the Quickening happens and absolutely everything just shatters anyway.
Oh, it absolutely was not. But it was fun. I pretended to chop off his head and everything. Won a free autograph/photo. Someone in the audience recorded it and gave me a copy.
That's amazing!!
I'll keep that one in mind. The one I've heard a lot of good things about is The Larry Sanders Show.
At the rate CBS is going with their remakes, they will bring back Quantum Leap but every episode the protagonist only leaps into crime fighters. Homicide detective this week, CIA anti-terrorism agent the next week, FBI profiler the week after that, secret service agent the week after that, highway patrol officer the week after that.....
I'm also surprised they haven't brought Mad Max, not as a movie but as a series. I think it could work. Put it on HBO or FX (where they'd have the budget to have some batshit crazy car chases in the wasteland) have either standalone stories of Max going from camp to camp and doing tasks, or do mini-arcs. Or, do mini-arcs that tie into a much larger arc and bad guy.
Miller owns the rights, nobody is doing anything with Mad Max except him.
Until he dies, of course.
The failed NYPD Blue revival had the worst premise of all -- let's take the heart and soul of the original show and murder him offscreen so the new characters can investigate his homicide. It'd be like bringing back Quantum Leap only to have it be about Sammy Jo trying to solve Sam's murder. Or making a show called Star Trek: Worf only to have it be about Alexander trying to solve Worf's murder.
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