Forbiden Planet Movie, Thoughts and Questions on there Universe.

[valkyrie013]

Hi All!
Just thinking recently after watching Forbidden planet for like the 40th time, on how a possible series/new movie might work out based on what we've seen.
Mainly thinking of the ships themselves.
The C57D wasn't that big a ship, with what, 20 people? The thing that struck me is that the ship is a Year out of Earth base, and it seems that the crew were Awake the whole time of the journey.
Now if the ship was maintenance intensive, or these are the "Early Days" of space exploration it might make sense, but it seems that with that slow a FTL drive, that the crew could go into Hibernation like the Aliens universe, with maybe 2 or 3 staying awake in shifts during the voyage if they didn't have a trustworthy computer or synthetic like Aliens.
Also, had a thought on the Saucer design, and to me it does make since if it has a "Warp Ring" in the outer part of the saucer for FTL Travel, with the crew in the center, but to me it would make more sense to to "Top First" when flying instead of on the side..

Well just thoughts, anybody else like to comment on what a potentential universe may look like?

 

[BillJ]

Just leave it alone. Much like the original Star Trek, it is a product of its time and anything new would simply be using brand recognition to sell a product that isn't remotely like it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Hi All!
Just thinking recently after watching Forbidden planet for like the 40th time, on how a possible series/new movie might work out based on what we've seen.
Mainly thinking of the ships themselves.
The C57D wasn't that big a ship, with what, 20 people? The thing that struck me is that the ship is a Year out of Earth base, and it seems that the crew were Awake the whole time of the journey.
Now if the ship was maintenance intensive, or these are the "Early Days" of space exploration it might make sense, but it seems that with that slow a FTL drive, that the crew could go into Hibernation like the Aliens universe, with maybe 2 or 3 staying awake in shifts during the voyage if they didn't have a trustworthy computer or synthetic like Aliens.
Also, had a thought on the Saucer design, and to me it does make since if it has a "Warp Ring" in the outer part of the saucer for FTL Travel, with the crew in the center, but to me it would make more sense to to "Top First" when flying instead of on the side..

Well just thoughts, anybody else like to comment on what a potentential universe may look like?

Like a 50's version of Star Trek. It's Star Trek 0: The Forbidden Planet, anyway.

 

[JD]

Just leave it alone. Much like the original Star Trek, it is a product of its time and anything new would simply be using brand recognition to sell a product that isn't remotely like it.

Yeah, this movie is such a perfect example of '50s sci-fi, that any attempt to update it would make it so completely unrecognizable that it wouldn't be the same universe any more.
Star Trek and Star Wars have managed to get away with because we got new versions over the decades that slowly updated thing as time went on.

 

[jackoverfull]

Like a 50's version of Star Trek. It's Star Trek 0: The Forbidden Planet, anyway.

pretty much. Me and my brother didn’t know much about it back then but automatically regarded as a Star Trek early movie in everything but name.

 

[Discofan]

The robot turned out to be the most memorable character of the movie. Appearing in several, mostly TV productions... Like amusingly enough Columbo of all series.

 

[jackoverfull]

The robot turned out to be the most memorable character of the movie. Appearing in several, mostly TV productions... Like amusingly enough Columbo of all series.

I remember that. And the movie also came out as Robbie the Robot, I think...

 

[XCV330]

There have been attempts to remake it, even a trilogy but it has gone nowhere. Ultimately it would be seen as a Star Trek copy, even if the reverse is more accurate. I would love to see how they'd handle the Krell world now, but they did such a good job of it (and the rotoscopic effects with the aid of Disney's assistance), that the original movie still stands up pretty well even now.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Can't see it being more than a single movie unless they give the sequels/series a new title.
Forbidden Planet II: Another Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet III: Yet another Forbidden Planet.
Forbidden Planet IV: Again, with a Forbidden Planet.
or
C-57D: Forbidden Planet
C-57D: Return of the Krell
C-57D: Cookie's Story

 

[valkyrie013]

Really wasn't thinking of having multiple movies based on original
be like maybe the first movie would be Forbidden Planet then the other movies would be set in that universe
I'm just wondering if any of y'all have thought of an idea along those lines of a Sequal based in that universe would go?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Really wasn't thinking of having multiple movies based on original
be like maybe the first movie would be Forbidden Planet then the other movies would be set in that universe
I'm just wondering if any of y'all have thought of an idea along those lines of a Sequal based in that universe would go?

Tricky without a unifying title.

 

[jackoverfull]

By the way, it’s also the tropesetter for the evil goatee...and also the mad scientist stranded on a planet with a beautiful daughter (well, that’s Shakespeare, ok).

 

[Nerys Myk]

By the way, it’s also the tropesetter for the evil goatee...and also the mad scientist stranded on a planet with a beautiful daughter (well, that’s Shakespeare, ok).

 

[BillJ]

By the way, it’s also the tropesetter for the evil goatee...and also the mad scientist stranded on a planet with a beautiful daughter (well, that’s Shakespeare, ok).

Many people see it as a take on The Tempest.

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox, that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s, a precursor of contemporary science fiction cinema. The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plot contains certain analogues to the play, leading many to consider it a loose adaptation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet

 

[jackoverfull]

got me!

Many people see it as a take on The Tempest.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet

as I said, Shakespeare

 

[Nerys Myk]

The poster gives the impression that there is a evil robot who kidnaps women.

 

[publiusr]

False advertising of course.

Now, I might like to see a prequel, but deep fake isn’t quite there yet.

PRIMAL’s Genndy Tartakovsky would be my choice to direct.

Think The Lensman’s work brought to life.
Not much of any dialogue...music by Patrick O’Hearn

 

[Discofan]

It would be interesting to try to imagine what the Krell looked like. Morbius said and we can trust him given his augmented intelligence that their controls were made for beings with multiple arms, also their heads were much bigger than human's, also their doorways suggest a wide shape. Maybe they were spiderlike or like crabs if you see what I mean.

 

[publiusr]

That might be good for a comic.

I was thinking of Morbius looking angry at some of his fellows laughing, mucking about disrespectfully—then seeing his eyes narrow.

He goes to bed, imagines himself a monster, like from the end of The Mist, striding over and through the fools...the fools!

He wakes up to a scene of horror, finds his daughter in the wreck of the Bellerophon (take her away from me, will you?) then shakes his head as if to say...it didn’t happen.

That kind of thing.

 

[Discofan]

That might be good for a comic.

I was thinking of Morbius looking angry at some of his fellows laughing, mucking about disrespectfully—then seeing his eyes narrow.

He goes to bed, imagines himself a monster, like from the end of The Mist, striding over and through the fools...the fools!

He wakes up to a scene of horror, finds his daughter in the wreck of the Bellerophon (take her away from me, will you?) then shakes his head as if to say...it didn’t happen.

That kind of thing.

His daughter wasn't born yet when the Bellerophon was destroyed. His wife and he lived for some time on the planet before she died of natural causes. He never realized that it was his mind that caused the destruction of the ship.