The story of the new "Forbidden Planet" (likely SPOILERS)

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Okay, since if this is accurate there are big-time spoilers I'll just post the link to the description of the script:

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/ex...den-planet-plot-trilogy-details-revealed-5879

I'd expect at least a non-denial denial from the producers sometime shortly.

 

[davejames]

Hmm, I'm not sure a trilogy is really necessary, but I don't really have a problem with the general storyline.

Of course, I'm sure (despite what this article says) that Cameron is going to want to do his own thing anyway.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Hmm, I'm not sure a trilogy is really necessary, but I don't really have a problem with the general storyline.

Yeah, I'd expect that the significant plot points of the second film would wind up being collapsed into the first.

There's certainly some novelty in the changed P.O.V. regarding the events of the first film.

 

[msbae]

Part of me thinks remaking Forbidden Planet is a waste of Hollyweird's time. The other part of me is intrigued by Mr.Straczynski's idea here. As long as Robby is still there and has the same general design...

Was the TDTESS remake any good?

 

[Gepard]

I like. And if Cameron is indeed on board, this could be something really special. (Or it could blow chunks, but I prefer to stay optimistic.)

Seconded on keeping the new Robby close to the design of the original.

 

[Candlelight]

Robby will be a woman in the new version.

 

[Gepard]

Robby will be a woman in the new version.

Ironically voiced by Dirk Bennedict.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Olmos would make a real different Morbius, but it's an interesting notion.

Last time they were talking about remaking this, Anthony Hopkins was being brutted about for that part. Not a bad idea either.

 

[Gepard]

Hell, they should just lift the cast of nuBSG wholesale--Olmos as Morbius, Katee Sackhoff as Altara, make the ship commander female and cast Mary McDonnell so she and Olmos can duke it out again..

 

[Bad Bishop]

I like. And if Cameron is indeed on board, this could be something really special. (Or it could blow chunks, but I prefer to stay optimistic.)

You've covered all bases!

 

[Jan]

Okay, since if this is accurate there are big-time spoilers I'll just post the link to the description of the script:

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/ex...den-planet-plot-trilogy-details-revealed-5879

Not knowing anything about that site or how accurate it usually is, I have to say that whatever "draft" the writer was talking about, it almost assuredly wasn't a screenplay. Screenplays don't have prologues and epilogues.

It might have been a treatment but not a script. Scripts begin with FADE IN: and end with FADE OUT. I've seen many examples of JMS' scripts and there are only two instances I've seen where there was anything after the fade. Once was a dedication and the other was a 'To be continued' on a pilot script.

Jan

 

[msbae]

Robby will be a woman in the new version.

Robby will be a woman in the new version.

Ironically voiced by Dirk Bennedict.

Do either of you have any evidence to support this claim? I don't remember seeing that in the article linked to by the TC.

 

[David cgc]

It's a joke, about how in the remake of Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck was made into a woman, and the actor who played the part in the original show, Dirk Bennedict, didn't take it well.

 

[msbae]

It's a joke, about how in the remake of Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck was made into a woman, and the actor who played the part in the original show, Dirk Bennedict, didn't take it well.

Okay.

 

[arch101]

Maybe this should be done as a mini or a single-season series shown in 3 chunks of episodes. So often a good idea gets blown up into a film, then becomes films, then gets too expensive and complicated and dies (LOTR excepted). As long as I get to see fully-functional Krell doors, I'm there!

 

[Psion]

Very nice! Thanks for posting this, Polaris! The only thing is, doesn't the film described in the third bullet significantly change the resolution of the original? After all, if we're spared a fate "when Morbius sacrifices his life...", then a certain somebody who got away in the original didn't get away in the final film of the new trilogy.

Wow. I really want to see these movies, now!

 

[Maurice]

What? Another epic cycle from JMS? Oy...

 

[RJDiogenes]

This is as brilliant as his ideas for re-imagining Star Trek.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

This is as brilliant as his ideas for re-imagining Star Trek.

Actually, as a big big fan of the original I have to say that I'm charmed by the notion of inverting the story's meaning while not changing the plot at all.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, but the characters were fine the way they were.

It's Hollywood thinking: "That was so good we should change it" (i.e., "If it ain't broke, fuck it up"). If you read or see something that gives you ideas, you develop those ideas into a new concept; you don't retcon the life out of your source material.