RDM developing Wild Wild West remake

[RandyS]

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Yeah, the real problem is it's on CBS so we're unlikely to get anything dark or gritty. Good luck getting something watchable, also...

Sounds like you need to spend a few years watching Seinfeld.

 

[Kegg]

Dennis does raise a good point about cash. While Battlestar Galactica did downplay exotic sci-fi material for obstensibly dramatic reasons, it was also 'cause that was a lot cheaper. A network series could probably get away with more interesting special effects.

Sounds like you need to spend a few years watching Seinfeld.

Never got that show. When I'm feeling charitable I write that up to a culture barrier.

 

[Icemizer]

They must cast a little person as Dr. Miguelito Loveless and he shouldnt be revealed until the final episode of the season. Although I think they will be hard pressed to find an actor of Michael Dunn's skills.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

There's still a lot more money in the networks, and larger audiences, than most of what's on cable.

The price you pay is having to bland everything down for the mass audience. CBS may have the largest audience of any network but there is nothing on it I care to watch, so what good does that huge audience to for me? I'd rather watch zombies on AMC.

I don't care if some hack decides to go write for CBS, but when it's someone I know can do better and more interesting work like Ron Moore, it seems like a real shame.

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Yeah, the real problem is it's on CBS so we're unlikely to get anything dark or gritty. Good luck getting something watchable, also...

Sounds like you need to spend a few years watching Seinfeld.

Better yet, watch Seinfeld and compare it to its cable sibling, Curb Your Enthusiasm. I vastly prefer the latter and once again it comes down to network style vs cable style. The fact that both shows are very good quality really clarifies the difference between quality and style.

 

[stj]

I overlooked one huge advantage in having Moore involved in a remake of Wild Wild West. Namely, the mores of the time favored euphemisms (often humorously elaborate,) for swear words like "fuck." For once, instead of being childish, he could be culturally appropriate!

Naren Shankar's track record in scifi isn't that promising either. CBS show's generally don't lower standards of writing. Characters with Multiple Personality Disorder just aren't going to fly there, no matter how entertaining some think they are. Shameless nonsense like Farscape is a much harder sell when set in an earthly environment.

 

[Christopher]

They must cast a little person as Dr. Miguelito Loveless and he shouldnt be revealed until the final episode of the season. Although I think they will be hard pressed to find an actor of Michael Dunn's skills.

Oh, I think Peter Dinklage would make an awesome Dr. Loveless. And no, introduce him in midseason sweeps, then bring him back for the season-ending arc.

I just hope this show's version of Loveless would have the opposite trajectory from the original's. Once, back when TNT ran TWWW reruns on weekdays, they did a week where they showed the first five Loveless episodes in a row, Monday through Friday. It was sad to watch him start out as a rich, nuanced, morally ambiguous character and then get more simplified and caricatured in each successive appearance.

 

[Jack Bauer]

They must cast a little person as Dr. Miguelito Loveless and he shouldnt be revealed until the final episode of the season. Although I think they will be hard pressed to find an actor of Michael Dunn's skills.

Oh, I think Peter Dinklage would make an awesome Dr. Loveless.

He would be awesome.

At least people watch CBS so they'll be aware of the advertising for it unlike other networks (cough NBC cough) where no one watches it and thus are ignorant of anything new...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I overlooked one huge advantage in having Moore involved in a remake of Wild Wild West. Namely, the mores of the time favored euphemisms (often humorously elaborate,) for swear words like "fuck."

Not according to Deadwood!