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BBC Remaking Day of the Triffids

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From BBC News
A new television adaptation of classic sci-fi story The Day of The Triffids is being made by the BBC.
The drama, about menacing plants taking over the world, will be shown in two feature-length episodes next year.
Casting for the show, which will be adapted by ER screenwriter Patrick Harbinson, has yet to be decided.
The BBC has made three TV versions of John Wyndham's classic, the most recent being in 1981. Four radio dramas have also been produced.
The most recent was in 2001, when two hour-long episodes were broadcast on the BBC World Service.
End of humankind
The new incarnation of the Triffids with their fatal sting will be shown in High Definition for the first time.
It is billed as a "fast-paced, futuristic and electrifying take" on Wyndham's work.
Julie Gardner, head of drama at BBC Wales said: "We're hoping to attract a legion of new fans as well as give nightmares to a new generation of viewers."
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Wasn't someone around here just saying they'd like to see a Triffids remake?
It'll be interesting to see what comes of this.
 
I rather considered "The Ruins" as a modern version of the "Triffids" tale. The original Triffids is a MST3K favorite, so I'm up for another story with killer plants.
 
The Brit-TV early '80s version is tremendous and I'm glad to have it. Hope they do well with the new one.

(I also love the original film, btw.)
 
I'm kind of happy as I love the 80s BBC TV show (before I was born too, but I got the DVD and was very impressed)

But on the other hand BBC have just remade Survivors, which is basically DOTT without the Triffids. So it seems originality is extremely lacking in that place
 
There was a quite recent theatrical release about the world going blind one day...and I swore I thought it was going to be a Triffids remake.

Bummer that it wasn't, but still cool that one's coming. :)
 
Great, I love that book. I think I only saw one film version once long ago, which was okay, but nothing special as I remember. Hope this one will be good.

I guess I'd rather have ten more Day of the Triffids movies, than one Night of the Triffids one. Not that the DOTT sequel was so horrible, but it fell short of the original one by a long shot. Ah well, that's a different discussion I guess.
 
I never saw the "Night" sequel (and it seems I'm fortunate). I do, however, have a lovely radio dramatization of the original story as an .mp3, though. :)
 
You can't go wrong with a Triffids remake.

Though its basically "Blindness" plus genetically engineered man-eating plants that can walk (not very fast)

though Triffids are essentially immune to bullets; plants have distributed organs so bullets don't really hurt them unless you empty so much onto them that you actually disrupt their physical structure, but frankly a machete or shaolin blade would be more efficient. Flamethrowers work pretty good though; they're actually highly flammable from all the oils in them.

What I love about "Day of the Triffids" is it hammers home the point that "surviving the world-ending disaster itself is the easy part", be it specifically zombies, or just super-plague.

DotT made painfully clear the lesson that "the gears of civilization" have shut down; i.e. surviving by scavenging canned food from London stores, is NOT a viable option for long-term survival on a scale of years!

Eventually, you need to have everything from the ground up; not just gasoline to fuel your tractor, but how to MAKE new blades for your tractor.
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This seems a very strange decision coming off the back of Survivors. There were many years between the original Survivors and Triffids but assuming Survivors is meant to be more than just one series we could have both running at the same time!

I seriously wish tv and film execs would greenlight something original for once, this remake everything schtic is getting real old.

They could at least make The Kraken Wakes instead
 
With Julie Gardner on board, this may well dick all over the Survivors remake.

I'm all for more post apocalyptia - can't get enough of it! I hate society so much that seeing it getting fucked over is always entertaining.
 
God I bet you loved Doomsday! :lol:

I love post apocolyptic stuff also (Hey I even like The Last Train) but this just seems like going to the well too many times in too short a space of time to me.

And seriously have all the ways of destroying the world been thought of now? Is that why we have to stick with ideas Wyndham had in the 50s and Nation in the 70s...

Or is it that they were just darn good ideas?
 
I think the problem is not finding ways to destroy the planet, its finding ways to do so which also kills about 95% of the human race, not the full 100%
 
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