I liked that series, especially Jeffrey Combs' character.
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-4400-reboot-cw-1203021893/
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/the-4400-reboot-cw-1203021893/
4400 reboot in the works
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I dunno, I think there are things about the original show's premise that it failed to develop adequately, like the 4400's culture shock at the changes in society since their abduction. The advantage of a new version, potentially, is to focus on the aspects of the story that the original version didn't, and thus complement it rather than just rehashing it. So it's possible this could be worthwhile. Although it's surprising to see it so soon after the original ended, and even sooner after the rather similar, failed ABC series The Crossing.
I think it's a good premise that could do well in a reboot. It's being shepherded by Craig Sweeney and Taylor Elmore. Craig Sweeney was a supervising producer on the original 4400, and both Craig Sweeney and Taylor Elmore were executive producers (and creator in the case of Sweeney) on another show I enjoyed (Limitless). Also, Sweeney was a consulting producer on 15 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery and an executive producer on Elementary (another good show).
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Okay, didn't see this coming.
Had fun writing two of the 4400 novels back in the day. You know you're getting old when they start rebooting stuff you wrote for the first time around: DAREDEVIL, ROSWELL, THE 4400 . . . .
Which probably means an ALIAS reboot is just down the road . . . .
Had fun writing two of the 4400 novels back in the day. You know you're getting old when they start rebooting stuff you wrote for the first time around: DAREDEVIL, ROSWELL, THE 4400 . . . .
Which probably means an ALIAS reboot is just down the road . . . .
Which probably means an ALIAS reboot is just down the road . . . .
Already in the works
The way things are going they'll soon start rebooting stuff that hasn't even been made yet.Okay, didn't see this coming.
Had fun writing two of the 4400 novels back in the day. You know you're getting old when they start rebooting stuff you wrote for the first time around: DAREDEVIL, ROSWELL, THE 4400 . . . .
Which probably means an ALIAS reboot is just down the road . . . .
I hope I live log enough to actually see that.
If they want to reboot something, reboot Firefly. Just bring the cast back together and let it get more than one season.
That happens all the time, when a project in development goes through various failed attempts -- like the various Spider-Man movie projects in the '90s before the Raimi film, or all the attempts to bring a Childhood's End miniseries to the air before the rather bad version Syfy did a few years ago. Heck, just the other day there was an alleged summary of the upcoming Black Widow movie that turned out to be the plot of a failed pitch from 2010, IIRC.
Hollywood has been in the reboot business since forever. It's perhaps worth remembering that many early TV series were actually reboots of earlier radio shows or movies: GUNSMOKE, PERRY MASON, OUR MISS BROOKS, GIDGET, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, DOBIE GILLIS, TOPPER, etc. And let's be honest here: MR. ED was a thinly-disguised reboot of the "Francis the Talking Mule" movies.
TV's been rebooting things since Day One. The more things change . ...
Yup. Most TV soap operas started on radio, as did shows like Dragnet, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, Adventures of Superman, etc. Indeed, several first-season episodes of Adventures of Superman were remakes of radio scripts.
I just found out today that the famous, Humphrey Bogart version of The Maltese Falcon, was the third version of the story.
Now, Now lets be generous, since Day Two.
(at least when it comes to works that first appeared on TV)
Hah. I looked up GUNSMOKE. According to Wikipedia, fans of the original radio show "considered the TV show a sham and its players impostors." Apparently, there was even an (unsuccessful) fan campaign to convince CBS not to recast the part of the Matt Dillon for TV and to stick with William Conrad from the radio show.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
I wonder what 1940s audiences made of the fact that Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were simultaneously starring in a Sherlock Holmes movie series set in the present day and a Sherlock Holmes radio series set in Victorian times. That would've driven today's canon obsessives round the bend.
Yes, but I was just being facetious.
Yep. Especially since the first two movies were set in Victorian times before the series moved to Universal.
I swear, the world was a happier place before fandom discovered the word "canon."
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