Depends on your definition of dark/gritty, but there is the 2005 film version of Bewitched
What properties or shows are you surprised nobody has rebooted?
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When you listen to the BTS stuff with BF audios even the cast raise the point of what the show would be like if made today. Would Blake be a freedom fighter or terrorist (though I think with the end of S2 he had really passed into the later but that's looking at things over 40 years later).
Think casting would present a few challenges.
Colin Salmon played Avon in the reimagined series guy gardner mentioned. He's a good Kerr Avon but he's not the Avon we know and love.
That said I for one wouldn't mind seeing a B7 in that guise. I don't know if anyone ever came up with some concept art for how the Liberator as described in those audios would look other than being a lot bigger than the original series ship.
Might almost be something like the Excalibur from Crusade (never looked it up but I'm sure the Liberator was a design influence there).
One thing that should have grated against the heroic legend of Roj Blake is that he was a convicted pedophile.
The goverent brainwashed some children into delivering false testimony, in the pilot.
The goverent brainwashed some children into delivering false testimony, in the pilot.
Given that it was a fabrication, it wouldn't have grated.
My mother-in-law, just 2 days ago, said "I don't know why the US voted in a pedophile as president?"
Methinks that some one sensible has to prune her facebook friends.
Whedon has been canceled.
He's having women problems and African American problems.
I heard a year ago that the Buffy remake was going to be with an African American teen.
https://deadline.com/2018/07/buffy-...ad-monica-owusu-breen-joss-whedon-1202430592/
Um.
3 years ago.
Methinks that some one sensible has to prune her facebook friends.
Whedon has been canceled.
He's having women problems and African American problems.
I heard a year ago that the Buffy remake was going to be with an African American teen.
https://deadline.com/2018/07/buffy-...ad-monica-owusu-breen-joss-whedon-1202430592/
Um.
3 years ago.
A comic book came out in 2015.
25 issues plus a few mini series.
That's over, but right now there's a Transformers vs. Back to the Future Limited series.
Lost=I would have thought they would have done something with the property by now. New group of people on the island no doubt. Maybe with Hurley and Ben being the only holdovers at least in terms of regulars or semi regulars.
Not a reboot so much but a spin-off show from American Horror Story.
Northern Exposure=Fun town to put quirky characters in. Bring back some of the old ones as well like maybe Rob Morrow and Jaine Turner for example.
Jasun
Not a reboot so much but a spin-off show from American Horror Story.
Northern Exposure=Fun town to put quirky characters in. Bring back some of the old ones as well like maybe Rob Morrow and Jaine Turner for example.
Jasun
Well, isn't the upcoming American Horror Stories kind of a spin-off? Or were you specifically wondering about one of the AHS seasons getting an ongoing spin-off show?
Yep but I always thought they could take one of the many characters they have created over the years and do a ongoing series with them. Or even concepts. I would love to see see Satan square off with the Aliens for example in a series. That could be really weird and fun.
Jason
The total failure that was That 80's Show probably killed it.
Not a chance in hell Jeannie would ever fly these days, in the age of MeToo...
I had an idea for a continuation a while back, it would have followed Al(berta) Beckett, the Sam Beckett's daughter, who was conceiver we when he leapt back into his body in The Leap Back, who restarts Project Quantum Leap and starts leaping in order to try to find her father. I just looked and it turned out Al had a daughter, "Sammy Jo", so she could take over her father's role. Then we'd have the joke of having Al as the leaper, with Sam as the hologram.
At the end of the first season Al would find her father, but we would then build off the introduction of the "evil Leaper", and the reveal in the finale that there were other Leapers, and have it turn out that he's been pulled into a conflict between good and evil leapers, with both sides constantly going back and forth "putting right what once went wrong" and "putting wrong what once went right". Al would of course get drawn into it to, and so that conflict would be the main arc of the series. We'd have Al and her father occasionally leap into the same time and place, so we can get recurring appearances from Scott Bakula. Since Al is only going to be in her 30s, I'd open things up to before her lifetime, so we father back than the '90s.
Back in the '00s or early '10s there were trying to do a I Dream of Jeannie reboot with Jessica Alba (I think), but it never made it very far.
About QL...I heard that Dean Stockwell was in ill health these days. Anybody know how he's doing?
And @JD, about Sam leaping, it seems clear that he's not leaping into other people's bodies, it's always his own. He just looks like the other people. Like when he's the blind concert pianist, he can still see, and when he's the Vietnam vet with no legs, he can walk around (looks like he's floating). And it's why Sammy Jo is Sam's actual biological daughter, he conceived her via his own body.
Also I'm fairly sure that when Sam leaps in as the pregnant woman, he says something to Al about "I can't be pregnant, can I?" and Al replies something like "no, of course not, it's your body not hers".
And @JD, about Sam leaping, it seems clear that he's not leaping into other people's bodies, it's always his own. He just looks like the other people. Like when he's the blind concert pianist, he can still see, and when he's the Vietnam vet with no legs, he can walk around (looks like he's floating). And it's why Sammy Jo is Sam's actual biological daughter, he conceived her via his own body.
Also I'm fairly sure that when Sam leaps in as the pregnant woman, he says something to Al about "I can't be pregnant, can I?" and Al replies something like "no, of course not, it's your body not hers".
I'm not sure I like the idea of evil leapers, mainly because the original show wasn't like that at all. I guess I'm looking for a show a little more positive and optimistic, especially on the heels of Ted Lasso last year which I thought the best new series I saw because it was very positive, at least in tone. Other than that, I like your idea.
But that was A: Right after 70s show ended and B: With a full new set of characters nobody cared about. It was a failure of writing and casting, not of concept.
I guess maybe most of the actors are either too successful or too problematic for it.
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I was just going by what Wikipedia said, and it called Sammy Jo Al's daughter. So in my theoritical reboot, the new Al and Sam would be sisters then?
Sure, but for a new show, you'd need some kind of arc or something more than just a simple leap of the week, and with those two points introduced that seems like the easiest way to do it with stuff introduced in the original show.
Not to mention there was the TellTale game that they were treating as a semi-sequel.
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