Time After Time trailer

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Based on the novel and movie “Time After Time,” executive producer/writer Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Scream” franchise, “Dawson’s Creek”) delivers a fantastical cat and mouse adventure through time when famed science fiction writer H.G. Wells is transported to modern day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the Ripper. Once H.G. arrives in New York City, he finds a world he never thought possible and a young woman who captivates him.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Meh. Looks pretty cheesy.

I love the film and I don't see any need to make the series so I'll probably give this a pass as I did with 12 Monkeys.

 

[RAMA]

hmm, well cheesy is not a word I'd use to describe the trailer..but there you go.

It took me a whole year to get around to watching the 12 monkeys tv show, and it took a handful of episodes, but i now prefer it to the movie.

RAMA

 

[Owain Taggart]

Meh. Looks pretty cheesy.

I love the film and I don't see any need to make the series so I'll probably give this a pass as I did with 12 Monkeys.

Yeah, I loved the movie too. Just don't see any sense of them making it into a series like this. Plus, it doesn't seem to have any kind of charm like the movie did.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

While it's not fair to compare the two leads here (never seen either of them before) to the likes of Malcolm McDowell and David Warner, they certainly lacked the charisma that McDowell and Warner naturally exude in their performances.

 

[auntiehill]

I loved the movie, and judging from that clip, the series is nothing but a pale copy. The leads are forgettable and completely lack any charisma. I'm not the least bit interested.

 

[JWPlatt]

If he's constantly chasing the bad guy and the series would end if he catches said MacGuffin, I gave up on the Gilligan's Island type of series a long, long time ago. Especially when a full run is not guaranteed or a finished outline of the entire story arc is not kept in trust to be released to fans if the series is cancelled before it is completed.

 

[JD]

Meh. Looks pretty cheesy.

I love the film and I don't see any need to make the series so I'll probably give this a pass as I did with 12 Monkeys.

That's a shame, 12 Monkeys is an awesome show.
As for Time After Time, it looks like it could be good, but it was my least favorite of the new time travel shows' trailers.

 

[Aldo]

Since it's on a Major Network I wonder if it's going to be a crime of the week procedural show?

It reminds me a lot of "Forever" a show with a great premise that was a mere backdrop so we could watch the main character solve (yawn) the murder of the week.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'll pass on this unless it gives rave reviews. The last drama I liked on ABC was Lost and that was 12 years ago. They seem to have no desire to make any television for men anymore, which is unfortunate.

 

[Kor]

Meh.

Kor

 

[TrickyDickie]

Time After Time has always been one of my favorite movies....with certain reservations. H.G. Wells was a progressive thinker and someone who was before his time. Yet in the movie, they played up the idea that by landing in 1979 he became an absolute fish out of water. The elements of humor that were intended to come out of that were mostly very tedious.

Back in the day, when the movie first came out, I was 12. I ordered the novel from Scholastic Books. When it arrived, it said 'abridged'. I wondered why. Years later, when I finally managed to track down a regular copy, I found out. There was a scene in which Jack described sex with his sister. They had to edit that out for the kiddies. Murder and disembowelment isn't a problem, but we can't have the incest thing. I found that to be quite hilarious....especially considering that I had been reading Joseph Wambaugh and such by age 12.

The author, Karl Alexander (who passed away last year), published a sequel in 2011 called Jaclyn The Ripper. I read it and thought it was pretty bad.

I will give the series a chance. I hope they don't do another Sleepy Hollow. That show ended up being seriously lousy.

 

[arch101]

As with SO many other productions today, the actors are too damned young. I'm all for youth but the ages of the characters in the original film gave them some heft. These two are kids, and hardly believable for whom they are supposed to be portraying.

 

[Owain Taggart]

While it's not fair to compare the two leads here (never seen either of them before) to the likes of Malcolm McDowell and David Warner, they certainly lacked the charisma that McDowell and Warner naturally exude in their performances.

Yeah, didn't mean to compare them to McDowell and Warner, because man, they're legends... Meant more in the sense that they didn't have chemistry. The movie is awesome because all three, McDowell, Warner, and Steenburgen had great chemistry together, and I don't think it would have worked quite as well without them. They had a twinkle in their eyes.

I'll give it a chance, I guess, but even just watching that clip made me really yearn for the movie. At least, maybe it will drum up interest for the movie from those not aware of it.

 

[hux]

"You actually built the bloody thing." Said with terrible English accent.

As weak as it looks, I thought it was a film so maybe worth a look but apparently it's a TV show!? I don't have high hopes.

 

[RAMA]

There's a difference between being a progressive thinker and actually being in a world that has adopted things you've written about and not just on a small scale. I think Wells would have been surprised by the lack of flying cars, but would have been astounded at the information technology explosion..computers at banks, etc. In fact he may have been so engrossed with that he'd have forgotten about Jack! Imagine his reactions to 2016.

RAMA

Time After Time has always been one of my favorite movies....with certain reservations. H.G. Wells was a progressive thinker and someone who was before his time. Yet in the movie, they played up the idea that by landing in 1979 he became an absolute fish out of water. The elements of humor that were intended to come out of that were mostly very tedious.

Back in the day, when the movie first came out, I was 12. I ordered the novel from Scholastic Books. When it arrived, it said 'abridged'. I wondered why. Years later, when I finally managed to track down a regular copy, I found out. There was a scene in which Jack described sex with his sister. They had to edit that out for the kiddies. Murder and disembowelment isn't a problem, but we can't have the incest thing. I found that to be quite hilarious....especially considering that I had been reading Joseph Wambaugh and such by age 12.

The author, Karl Alexander (who passed away last year), published a sequel in 2011 called Jaclyn The Ripper. I read it and thought it was pretty bad.

I will give the series a chance. I hope they don't do another Sleepy Hollow. That show ended up being seriously lousy.

 

[TrickyDickie]

In fact he may have been so engrossed with that he'd have forgotten about Jack!
RAMA

When H. G. finds out who John is, and then discovers that he has stolen the time machine, he is horrified. It's his invention and he is responsible for letting The Ripper escape into a different era to continue the slaughter.

He would have known and felt very strongly that once he arrived in the future, no matter how strange and different the surroundings, the pursuit would take absolute precedence over the wide-eyed schoolboy thing.

H.G. and John were both intelligent individuals. John dimmed down his shock and attempted to blend seamlessly into his surroundings as quickly as possible. I feel that H.G. would have done the same, out of necessity and focus on the priority at hand. I think that he would have reacted stronger inwardly than outwardly to the new surroundings. I don't feel that John necessarily had an advantage just because he was a cool killer and could more easily adapt to unexpected situations. Desperate circumstances could have forced H. G. to calm himself down enough to get things done that needed to be done without being distracted.

Of course it's all just speculation and my opinion. I didn't know the real H.G. I just feel that in the movie they went a little too far for comic effect.

 

[Cyrus]

Is Nick Meyer involved in the TV series? Hopefully he is too busy working on that other series.