Could "The Starlost" be remade today?

[RJDiogenes]

You know what is one the best reboot out there?
Star Blazer 2199.

I'm not familiar with either the original or the reboot.

Just like Superman, Batman, the other DC Comics characters, James Bond, the Marvel Comics characters, and a few others, they have to change in order to be relevant to other readers/viewers BESIDES die-hard fans (Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys in particular.) Done 'properly' the way you want it, they would be great television for you and others like you-but for everybody else, they would be boring.

There's actually a lot of period pieces being done these days, both in movies and TV. It's very possible that doing these concepts properly would be successful.

 

[Phoenix219]

I'm not familiar with either the original or the reboot.


There's actually a lot of period pieces being done these days, both in movies and TV. It's very possible that doing these concepts properly would be successful.

I was about to respond and post almost the exact same thing - there are more "retro" / nostalgia shows now than there have ever been, and it hasn't slowed any of them down... (case in point, Stranger Things.)

It makes more sense - how much free roam the kids have, the lack of cell phones and good technology to transfer information easy, the lack of good forensics to make more of the clues / puzzles work, not to mention the classic vehicles.... they would be arrested for trespassing and snooping so many times, parents and law enforcement and other authority figures would not be allowing the access the classic characters get. No one would take them seriously. The characters really only work in an old school setting, IMO. If they ever made it far enough to do a classic Tom Swift, the aesthetics and "technology" would be very cool to look at, very steam punkish or atomic age or whatever you want to call it, and it is all absolutely a core part of the entire thing. I'm sure I could have said all of this more eloquently....

 

[Skipper]

I'm not familiar with either the original or the reboot.

It's great. I believe it's available in the US on various (legal) streaming platforms. At least on Amazon, Funimation and Crunchyroll.

 

[Christopher]

I was about to respond and post almost the exact same thing - there are more "retro" / nostalgia shows now than there have ever been, and it hasn't slowed any of them down... (case in point, Stranger Things.)

Than there have ever been? I doubt it. There were plenty of retro/nostalgia shows on '50s and '60s TV -- either period pieces like Westerns and gangster shows, or TV remakes/continuations of classic radio shows like The Lone Ranger, Superman, The Green Hornet, and many soap operas and game shows.

It's just that we look back on that time through our own nostalgic lens and don't stop to think that people back then had just as much nostalgia for their past as we do for ours. For instance, people today are nostalgic for Star Wars and often don't recognize that SW itself was entirely an exercise in nostalgia for the stuff George Lucas loved as a kid in the '40s and '50s.

 

[JD]

Superman and Green Hornet were period pieces? They seemed like what was at the time modern day.

 

[Alan Roi]

Superman and Green Hornet were period pieces? They seemed like what was at the time modern day.

they were part of the "or remake/continuation" part of what he said. Which is entirely true.

 

[Alan Roi]

I was about to respond and post almost the exact same thing - there are more "retro" / nostalgia shows now than there have ever been, and it hasn't slowed any of them down... (case in point, Stranger Things.)

It makes more sense - how much free roam the kids have, the lack of cell phones and good technology to transfer information easy, the lack of good forensics to make more of the clues / puzzles work, not to mention the classic vehicles.... they would be arrested for trespassing and snooping so many times, parents and law enforcement and other authority figures would not be allowing the access the classic characters get. No one would take them seriously. The characters really only work in an old school setting, IMO. If they ever made it far enough to do a classic Tom Swift, the aesthetics and "technology" would be very cool to look at, very steam punkish or atomic age or whatever you want to call it, and it is all absolutely a core part of the entire thing. I'm sure I could have said all of this more eloquently....

And that of course, is a similar reason why there were so many cowboy shows in the 60s, or how popular Happy Days was in the 70s. Adults of the present are always longing for the "good old days" when times were simpler and the problems weren't so modern and the kinds of troubles one has as an adult in contemporary society.

 

[Christopher]

they were part of the "or remake/continuation" part of what he said. Which is entirely true.

Yep. I said "either period pieces... or TV remakes/continuations."

 

[JD]

Oh, I missed the or.