New trailer for Syfy's "Riverworld"

[TV Lowdown]

The 4-hour miniseries, based on Philip Jose Farmer's novels about a strange world where the human race go after death, has a new trailer.

Watch the trailer here.

I have to admit, while the story sounds very interesting, I've not been drawn in by the trailer. I'll mainly be watching for Tahmoh Penikett, who was great on BSG (and good but less great on Dollhouse).

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Didn't Sci-Fi (before the STD name change) do another Riverworld movie or something before?

 

[Klaus]

^^and they should all be tossed out an airlock for it.

ALL of them, right down to the janitors!

 

[Reverend]

Didn't Sci-fi do this one already, or am I thinking of something else?

[EDIT] That's what I get for not refreshing my tabs!

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Didn't Sci-Fi (before the STD name change) do another Riverworld movie or something before?

Didn't Sci-fi do this one already, or am I thinking of something else?

A little digging, and I found the answer to our similar questions. Yes, they did in 2003.

http://www.pjfarmer.com/riverwld.htm

(scroll down to the bottom)

 

[bigdaddy]

God the first one was horrible, wikipedia claims it was a pilot that was never picked up, all I remember was that it took 2 hours to get somewhere and that was the end.

The trailer looks... OK I guess. After the last one it couldn't be any worse.

 

[Greg Cox]

This is Syfy's second stab at adapting RIVERWORLD. They're starting over again.

 

[Mistral]

This looks more interesting than the previous iteration. I'll give it a chance...

 

[The Comedian]

God the first one was horrible, wikipedia claims it was a pilot that was never picked up, all I remember was that it took 2 hours to get somewhere and that was the end.

The trailer looks... OK I guess. After the last one it couldn't be any worse.

Looks to me that they're veering off in the same direction the first miniseries did.

The wrong one, IMHO.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The trailer makes it look like some sort of nuBSG/Stargate SG-1 mashup with the same old locations -- trees, more trees, lakes, medieval craft-fair villages, and so on. I see that the human race is being resurrected fully clothed in this version. Once again they've chosen not to have Sir Richard Burton (the explorer) as the protagonist, which is a pity.

 

[bigdaddy]

God the first one was horrible, wikipedia claims it was a pilot that was never picked up, all I remember was that it took 2 hours to get somewhere and that was the end.

The trailer looks... OK I guess. After the last one it couldn't be any worse.

Looks to me that they're veering off in the same direction the first miniseries did.

The wrong one, IMHO.

It doesn't look great, but after te last one I have extremely low standards.