What film WOULD you LOVE to see a remake/reboot of?
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Rollerball - The James Caan version not the crappy one.
Rollerball - The James Caan version not the crappy one.
You wouldn't have to wrap up the story arc in one movie - just have a goal that you're aiming for, perhaps over a certain number of movies.
King Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, is an alien destroyer. While Godzilla is a product of nature corrupted by mankind, Ghidorah is a wholly alien entity, a destroyer not of this earth, and one with no place in it.
Of course, they were becoming substantially less philosophical by the time he was introduced, and substantially less allegorical.
Babylon 5 - The Gathering
I'd love B5 to get proper treatment, and even though it'd take a time to get used to new actors playing familiar faces, I guess I'd be able to accept it. The situation would be the same as with new Star Trek.
For any other franchises, I couldn't care less.
I'd love B5 to get proper treatment, and even though it'd take a time to get used to new actors playing familiar faces, I guess I'd be able to accept it. The situation would be the same as with new Star Trek.
For any other franchises, I couldn't care less.
You could very easily have Connor be the "last" Scottish immortal though and then bring in other immortal tribes, thus using other cultural myths, in future movies.
The way to go, in my opinion, is to have a Connor defeat a different main villain in each film, with each film narrowing down the number of immortals left, until a grand final showdown. You could foreshadow the biggest, baddest villain ahead of time before he actually shows up as the main antagonist.
No film ideas, but TV:
"Star Trek: Voyager"
The potential was there, but it failed for seven years to reach it.
"M.A.N.T.I.S."
Failed FOX TV series. Basically a show about a wheelchair bound black guy who invents an exoskeleton suit (there was recent news on a live one, and I mentioned this show), with a helmet that made him look like a mantis.
While the show wasn't good, the basica ideas, I felt, could have made for a good series. We have far too few black role model, and a good one -- combined with a handy cap -- is a good starting point.
The last 14 years of "The Simpsons".
"Star Trek: Voyager"
The potential was there, but it failed for seven years to reach it.
"M.A.N.T.I.S."
Failed FOX TV series. Basically a show about a wheelchair bound black guy who invents an exoskeleton suit (there was recent news on a live one, and I mentioned this show), with a helmet that made him look like a mantis.
While the show wasn't good, the basica ideas, I felt, could have made for a good series. We have far too few black role model, and a good one -- combined with a handy cap -- is a good starting point.
The last 14 years of "The Simpsons".
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I'd love to see a follow-up/update of two filamtion live-action series from the 1970's: Space Academy and Jason of Star Command. I think it'd be fun to do a new series set thirty years after the originals. Cadet Gentry would now be commander Gentry, the head of the Space Academy and the secret Space Command operation seen in Jason. I'd ge tthe other actors still available from the originals to reprise their roles in updated ways and introduce a new group of cadets for the to teach. With updated effects and science, this would be a great opportunity to do a series for a younger audience that is fun and educational (but not in an obivous way).
And, if I was insanely wealthy I'd give Robert Hewitt Wolfe as much money as he wanted to re-do Andromeda any way he wanted to do it.
And, if I was insanely wealthy I'd give Robert Hewitt Wolfe as much money as he wanted to re-do Andromeda any way he wanted to do it.
TV:
ST: VOY
ST: Enterprise
MANTIS
Threshold
Mission Genesis
Ultraviolet
Bionic Woman
Six Million Dollar Man
Fall Guy
Silk Stalkings
B5: Crusade
B5: Legend of the Rangers
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Buck Rogers in the 25th century
Thundercats
Silverhawks
Blackstar
Go-Bots
The Flash
Werewolf
Forever Knight
Gatchaman/G-Force
Birds of Prey
Matt Houston
Mission Impossible
Lost in Space
Ultraman
A Man Called Hawk
Film:
Planet of the Apes
Superman Returns
Daredevil
Punisher War Zone
Steel
Judge Dredd
Dune
Blade Trinity
Spider-Man Three
Darkman
Soldier
Babylon A.D.
Troy
Excalibur
Mission Impossible
Lost in Space
Action Jackson
ST: VOY
ST: Enterprise
MANTIS
Threshold
Mission Genesis
Ultraviolet
Bionic Woman
Six Million Dollar Man
Fall Guy
Silk Stalkings
B5: Crusade
B5: Legend of the Rangers
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Buck Rogers in the 25th century
Thundercats
Silverhawks
Blackstar
Go-Bots
The Flash
Werewolf
Forever Knight
Gatchaman/G-Force
Birds of Prey
Matt Houston
Mission Impossible
Lost in Space
Ultraman
A Man Called Hawk
Film:
Planet of the Apes
Superman Returns
Daredevil
Punisher War Zone
Steel
Judge Dredd
Dune
Blade Trinity
Spider-Man Three
Darkman
Soldier
Babylon A.D.
Troy
Excalibur
Mission Impossible
Lost in Space
Action Jackson
classic speculative fiction
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Original Release Date:1979, Length: 100 minutes
originally shot in about 4 weeks as a TV movie for PBS on 16mm, 1:33:1 full frame.
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Original Release Date:1979, Length: 100 minutes
originally shot in about 4 weeks as a TV movie for PBS on 16mm, 1:33:1 full frame.
It was mastered to 2" analog videotape in 1980 and the DVD was made from a new digital videotape master that was dubbed from the 2" analog videotape [which is an obsolete video format].
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A Fist Full of Dollars
For a few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Longest Day
Sgt York
The Black Hole
Silent Running
Damnation Alley
The Punisher
PT 109
For a few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Longest Day
Sgt York
The Black Hole
Silent Running
Damnation Alley
The Punisher
PT 109
If I were an all-powerful tv/movie producer/writer/director I would aquire all the legal rights to both THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and BIONIC WOMAN series.
"Steve Austin....astronaut.
A man barely alive....
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology to create the world's first Bionic Man.
He will be Faster.
Stronger.
Better than he was before."
With those words, the GREATEST action/adventure/sci-fi show of the 1970s was born!
I was seven years old the first time I heard those words, and my world forever changed. Lee Majors was like a GOD to me. Each week I thrilled to exciting adventures that before I could only imagine or get in a comic book.
Now years, heck, decades later, I still enjoy the series. I have the entire series on homemade DVD and still watch specific episodes over and over again. While the series was uneven at times (especially in its last season), many of the episodes still hold up and are quite entertaining. And while the series lacks the sophisicated continuity (three different Dr. Wells anyone?) we are used to in todays tv series, it did develop it own loose Bionic Mythology.
Like my other favorite hero SUPERMAN, the Bionic Man developed a family (Bionic Woman, Bionic Dog, Bionic Boy), recurring allies (Bionic Bigfoot, Seven Million Dollar Man) and rogues gallery (the Robot Maker, Fembots, Death Probe).
My favorite episodes are the classic 3 parter KILL OSCAR (the best tv cross over event EVER! between SMDM and BW) and the 2 parter SECRET OF BIGFOOT PASS ( best bionic fight scene EVER!!!!).
Today, people tend to regard SMDM (if they remember it at all, I work with lots of people in their 20s who never heard of the series-- boy do I feel old) as hokey or silly. They forget how HUGE this series was when it was on the airwaves. Mechandice alone was in the millions.... action figures, comics, lunch boxes, pjs, etc. The series ran 5 seasons (unheard of for most sci-fi shows), spawned a spin-off and made Lee Majors a major star of the 70s and 80s!
So back onto topic....
If I were to bring back Steve to television, I would approach it as a reboot. Use the original series as an outline, take all the original stuff fans loved and remix and update it for the new millenium. In terms of storytelling, I would approach it like The X-Files, very real world, gritty, dark with a touch of the Fantastic. I would tie the series together with one underlying continuing storyline giving it a slightly serialized feel, but with plenty of stand alone episodes that the new viewer can easily tune in and understand what is going on. In terms of special effects and action, I would approach it much like Smallville. I would use the "slo-mo" (or "Bullet-time" as it is now called) and the classic Bionic sound effects only rarely, to make it more special and powerful.
In terms of characters, Steve Austin is still an Astronaut. He is engaged to school teacher Jaime Summers. Their love affair would be the heart and soul of the show. Jaime is Steve's inner strength, especially after the "accident", it is her love that keeps him sane and gets him out of the bed in the morning.
Oscar Goldman would be a slightly darker, solitary character.... still a patriot, but more of an ends justify the means kind of guy. It would be through his relationship with Steve and Jaime that he moves slowly out of the darkness and more into the light. Oscar would be second in command of the OSI to Oliver Sempler (the original character from the first SMDM pilot Cyborg). Sempler will be a cold, ruthless character, a man who knows more than he is saying and has a very dark and dangerous agenda. I think I would make Dr. Rudy Wells an older woman, a dedicated professional who, though she did not invent Bionics, has finally perfected it.
The OSI would be a more mysterious organization. To the world it would be government agency mandated with the security and development of new technology. But behind this facade, it is a far older secret agency that has its origins tied in with the Roswell Incident and the Majestic 12 Accords. It is an organization fighting a secret war for the very survival of the species. In many ways, they are the Men In Black, the flip side of the alien conspiracy.
The general story would go like this....
Steve is the piloting a Space Shuttle which is deploying a top secret satellite for the OSI. The shuttle comes under attack by a mysterious cybernetic entity, killing Steve's crew and seriously damaging the shuttle. The damaged shuttle begins to plummet back to Earth, on a direct collision course of a major American city. It takes all of Steve's amazing piloting skills to avoid hitting the city and he crashes the shuttle in a rural area. Steve is of course mortally injured. The OSI sweeps in and begins the cover-up of the accident and wisks Steve off to their Colorado Complex.
Of course the entire Shuttle diaster was televised on Cable and Jaime and her class were watching the whole event horrified. Demostrating classic Jaime initiative and investigation skills, Jaime is able to eventually find out about the OSI and track Steve down, but only after the Bionic Operation has occurred.
Sempler and Goldman realize the value of having Jaime around, firstly it keeps up Steve moral, but it also gives them a bargaining chip if Steve refuses to cooperate.
Goldman informs Steve and Jaime that the entity that attacked the shuttle was an extra terestrial life form. A cybernetic nano-virus that can take on any form and corrupt/control any technology. It is one of two different alien species that seem to be waging a war with each other with the Earth caught in the middle as the battlefield. The motivations of both aliens species is unknown, but they seem obsessed with slowing Human technological advancement and our progress into space. Goldman also reveals Steve's own bionics are derived from alien technology that was discovered at Roswell.
Through the course of the series, Steve and Jaime would work often together on cases involving everything from alien abductions, stolen technology, stopping terrorists with high-tech weapons, etc. All the while continuing their own private investigation into the OSI and its real motives. By end of the first season, they will discover Sempler is in league with one of the alien species, and Goldman will overthrow him and become head of the OSI, while Sempler will of course escape and continue to be thorn in their side in the future.
In the beginning of the second season, on their wedding night Jaime would become captured by the cybernetic aliens, and they will try to convert her into one of their agents by making her Bionic. Steve will of course save her, but as a result of the more intrusive, agressive alien operation, Jaime will have no memory of her past life and will be very cold and ruthless. Over the course of the second season, Steve will do everything he can to stimulate Jaime's memory and restore her humanity.
That would be my general guideline for the first two seasons, during which I would re-introduce many other classic characters....even Bigfoot. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, one of the cybernetic aliens ships crashed in what would be the American northwest. The ship was seriously damaged and was carrying some very important cargo, all part of the aliens millenium old agenda. In order to protect itself, the ship created it own personal protector until its own kind could rescure it. The ship finds the Sasquatch, last of its own species, and rebuilds the creature into it own eternal body guard.
I would bring back Barny Miller (the 7 Million Dollar Man, not the cop!). During Steves investigation of the OSI, he discovers he was not the first to receive the Bionic Operation. In fact, there have been many others, except they all turned insane and homicidal! And the OSI has kept them in suspended animation in a secret complex. Of course, one gets accidently free and Steve has to do Bionic Battle.
For the Death Probe, I would make it a secret Mars Rover that the OSI sent to the Cydonia to explore the FACE. The Rover is discovered by the other Synthetic Alien race, and is reprogramed and Bionic-ized, and is sent back to Earth to as a weapon to create havoc and test Earth response and defences, in particular, how powerful Steve is...
I would also bring back Dr. Franklin and the Fembots, but with a much more sinister edge. Franklin is an OSI scienctist, in fact he was in charge of the Bionic program before Wells. Franklin is a genius but also a psychopath.... he loathes women. Goldman discovers Franklin has been killing prositutes and has him removed from the project. Franklin escapes and resurfaces later with his killer Fembots. It will turn out Franklin's escape was arrange by Sempler and that he is still working for him and the aliens.
Those are just some of my ideas...
So what show (and why) would you love to reimagine?????????
"Steve Austin....astronaut.
A man barely alive....
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology to create the world's first Bionic Man.
He will be Faster.
Stronger.
Better than he was before."
With those words, the GREATEST action/adventure/sci-fi show of the 1970s was born!
I was seven years old the first time I heard those words, and my world forever changed. Lee Majors was like a GOD to me. Each week I thrilled to exciting adventures that before I could only imagine or get in a comic book.
Now years, heck, decades later, I still enjoy the series. I have the entire series on homemade DVD and still watch specific episodes over and over again. While the series was uneven at times (especially in its last season), many of the episodes still hold up and are quite entertaining. And while the series lacks the sophisicated continuity (three different Dr. Wells anyone?) we are used to in todays tv series, it did develop it own loose Bionic Mythology.
Like my other favorite hero SUPERMAN, the Bionic Man developed a family (Bionic Woman, Bionic Dog, Bionic Boy), recurring allies (Bionic Bigfoot, Seven Million Dollar Man) and rogues gallery (the Robot Maker, Fembots, Death Probe).
My favorite episodes are the classic 3 parter KILL OSCAR (the best tv cross over event EVER! between SMDM and BW) and the 2 parter SECRET OF BIGFOOT PASS ( best bionic fight scene EVER!!!!).
Today, people tend to regard SMDM (if they remember it at all, I work with lots of people in their 20s who never heard of the series-- boy do I feel old) as hokey or silly. They forget how HUGE this series was when it was on the airwaves. Mechandice alone was in the millions.... action figures, comics, lunch boxes, pjs, etc. The series ran 5 seasons (unheard of for most sci-fi shows), spawned a spin-off and made Lee Majors a major star of the 70s and 80s!
So back onto topic....
If I were to bring back Steve to television, I would approach it as a reboot. Use the original series as an outline, take all the original stuff fans loved and remix and update it for the new millenium. In terms of storytelling, I would approach it like The X-Files, very real world, gritty, dark with a touch of the Fantastic. I would tie the series together with one underlying continuing storyline giving it a slightly serialized feel, but with plenty of stand alone episodes that the new viewer can easily tune in and understand what is going on. In terms of special effects and action, I would approach it much like Smallville. I would use the "slo-mo" (or "Bullet-time" as it is now called) and the classic Bionic sound effects only rarely, to make it more special and powerful.
In terms of characters, Steve Austin is still an Astronaut. He is engaged to school teacher Jaime Summers. Their love affair would be the heart and soul of the show. Jaime is Steve's inner strength, especially after the "accident", it is her love that keeps him sane and gets him out of the bed in the morning.
Oscar Goldman would be a slightly darker, solitary character.... still a patriot, but more of an ends justify the means kind of guy. It would be through his relationship with Steve and Jaime that he moves slowly out of the darkness and more into the light. Oscar would be second in command of the OSI to Oliver Sempler (the original character from the first SMDM pilot Cyborg). Sempler will be a cold, ruthless character, a man who knows more than he is saying and has a very dark and dangerous agenda. I think I would make Dr. Rudy Wells an older woman, a dedicated professional who, though she did not invent Bionics, has finally perfected it.
The OSI would be a more mysterious organization. To the world it would be government agency mandated with the security and development of new technology. But behind this facade, it is a far older secret agency that has its origins tied in with the Roswell Incident and the Majestic 12 Accords. It is an organization fighting a secret war for the very survival of the species. In many ways, they are the Men In Black, the flip side of the alien conspiracy.
The general story would go like this....
Steve is the piloting a Space Shuttle which is deploying a top secret satellite for the OSI. The shuttle comes under attack by a mysterious cybernetic entity, killing Steve's crew and seriously damaging the shuttle. The damaged shuttle begins to plummet back to Earth, on a direct collision course of a major American city. It takes all of Steve's amazing piloting skills to avoid hitting the city and he crashes the shuttle in a rural area. Steve is of course mortally injured. The OSI sweeps in and begins the cover-up of the accident and wisks Steve off to their Colorado Complex.
Of course the entire Shuttle diaster was televised on Cable and Jaime and her class were watching the whole event horrified. Demostrating classic Jaime initiative and investigation skills, Jaime is able to eventually find out about the OSI and track Steve down, but only after the Bionic Operation has occurred.
Sempler and Goldman realize the value of having Jaime around, firstly it keeps up Steve moral, but it also gives them a bargaining chip if Steve refuses to cooperate.
Goldman informs Steve and Jaime that the entity that attacked the shuttle was an extra terestrial life form. A cybernetic nano-virus that can take on any form and corrupt/control any technology. It is one of two different alien species that seem to be waging a war with each other with the Earth caught in the middle as the battlefield. The motivations of both aliens species is unknown, but they seem obsessed with slowing Human technological advancement and our progress into space. Goldman also reveals Steve's own bionics are derived from alien technology that was discovered at Roswell.
Through the course of the series, Steve and Jaime would work often together on cases involving everything from alien abductions, stolen technology, stopping terrorists with high-tech weapons, etc. All the while continuing their own private investigation into the OSI and its real motives. By end of the first season, they will discover Sempler is in league with one of the alien species, and Goldman will overthrow him and become head of the OSI, while Sempler will of course escape and continue to be thorn in their side in the future.
In the beginning of the second season, on their wedding night Jaime would become captured by the cybernetic aliens, and they will try to convert her into one of their agents by making her Bionic. Steve will of course save her, but as a result of the more intrusive, agressive alien operation, Jaime will have no memory of her past life and will be very cold and ruthless. Over the course of the second season, Steve will do everything he can to stimulate Jaime's memory and restore her humanity.
That would be my general guideline for the first two seasons, during which I would re-introduce many other classic characters....even Bigfoot. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, one of the cybernetic aliens ships crashed in what would be the American northwest. The ship was seriously damaged and was carrying some very important cargo, all part of the aliens millenium old agenda. In order to protect itself, the ship created it own personal protector until its own kind could rescure it. The ship finds the Sasquatch, last of its own species, and rebuilds the creature into it own eternal body guard.
I would bring back Barny Miller (the 7 Million Dollar Man, not the cop!). During Steves investigation of the OSI, he discovers he was not the first to receive the Bionic Operation. In fact, there have been many others, except they all turned insane and homicidal! And the OSI has kept them in suspended animation in a secret complex. Of course, one gets accidently free and Steve has to do Bionic Battle.
For the Death Probe, I would make it a secret Mars Rover that the OSI sent to the Cydonia to explore the FACE. The Rover is discovered by the other Synthetic Alien race, and is reprogramed and Bionic-ized, and is sent back to Earth to as a weapon to create havoc and test Earth response and defences, in particular, how powerful Steve is...
I would also bring back Dr. Franklin and the Fembots, but with a much more sinister edge. Franklin is an OSI scienctist, in fact he was in charge of the Bionic program before Wells. Franklin is a genius but also a psychopath.... he loathes women. Goldman discovers Franklin has been killing prositutes and has him removed from the project. Franklin escapes and resurfaces later with his killer Fembots. It will turn out Franklin's escape was arrange by Sempler and that he is still working for him and the aliens.
Those are just some of my ideas...
So what show (and why) would you love to reimagine?????????
Are you proposing to remake the TOS series using the same scripts [i.e. no W.G.A. writer's changes] and just with new directors, actors, sets?Nice post.
a re-make of the TOS series to fit in to the new Enterprise.
Please specify.
I'm only asking Cky since this thread is in the Science Fiction & Fantasy forum and not Future of Trek forum (so please no one else jump in on this one.)
Personally I disagree but would just like to see what vision Cky was thinking of.
The Wizard Of Oz
Thats all I can think of right now. I love the original but would like to see what a contemporary director could do with it. I'm looking forward to Burton's Alice but don't think he would be right for OZ... unless he were to base it on Wicked maybe.
Thats all I can think of right now. I love the original but would like to see what a contemporary director could do with it. I'm looking forward to Burton's Alice but don't think he would be right for OZ... unless he were to base it on Wicked maybe.
^^^
John Boorman is currently making The Wizard of Oz as an animated film.
John Boorman is currently making The Wizard of Oz as an animated film.
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