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What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next?
Not long ago Wired ran their own list of which SciFi (not SyFy!) shows were in need of another go 'round in this era of the reboot. Well, it looks like many fans had their own opinions resulting in another list of reboots including everything from Firefly (please?) to The Outer Limits. Which SciFi stories could use the breath of life, and which ones might actually succeed it getting it?
Blake's 7. I was in the USAF for the final 2 series. Incredible characters and stories. Horrible sets.
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do a BSG style multi season show based on against a dark background by Banks
Reboot should get a Reboot!
That was a great cartoon.
Maybe C.O.P.S too! Fighting crime in a future time!
What part of Firefly do you think needed a reboot? The whole point of these reboots is to drop the decades of cruft that have dogged down a series and made it impossible to create anything new thanks to all of the baggage. Firefly has a (too) short lived TV run and a movie. There's not really any baggage to drop.
The only thing I'd change is the dumbass execs that cancelled it before its time.
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I'd rather see the nice old b&w Twilight Zones, grainy old BSG, the 1 or 2 seasons of Firefly, than ALL NEW DISNEY PIXAR TWILIGHT ZONE 3D ON ICE !!eleventy!!!
Lets get some NEW stuff - the enjoyment from the show should come from the plot/characters/message rather than the latest special effects or rehashes of To Serve Man.
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Because the original set of sequels did so much damage to the original (awesome) films, that a series reboot could go nowhere but up.
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How about none? There's a million* SF ideas out there that have never gone much beyond the printed word. Why do we have to keep rebooting old franchises? How about turning the Vorkosigan saga into a miniseries? Or something by Cory Doctorow or Charlie Stross, if you want to be a little more up-to-the-minute? How about a miniseries based on Hyperion, or A Deepness in the Sky?
Or even just forget about things that have already been written -- commission Doctorow or Stross (or someone) to create a TV miniseries based on new SF material.
* Not precisely 1 million.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
Well this got a reboot in the 80s with the movie, maybe a re-reboot is in order?
There are too many sci-fi stories out there that need to hit the screen before we get reboots of old ones. Where is? Ender's Game, Antares Dawn, Startide Rising, Fire in the Deep, Armor?
I'd love to see Ender's Game in 3d. "The enemy's gate is down..." and our orientation would switch appropriately....
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Oh wait. That'd be Heros.
Maybe screenwriters and filmmakers could come up with an ORIGINAL idea for a change. Getting tired of inferior remakes, all they do is cause me to download and watch the original again.
Lets get some fresh stories.
None. Come up with some new ideas already.
Startrek. It doesn't seem like this new series is going to go anywhere, or is it just me?
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All Star Wars movies made in the last 20 years.
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Frelling great show.
Many of those show I'd never heard of. Significantly disappointed Lexx made but not Farscape. I wanted Farscape to continue.
What I really want is a live action series out of Starblazers - does anyone else remember how awesome that story was, or I am just making a childhood memory better than it really was?
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Princess Ardala, Col. Wilma Deering, and little robots that want to be your best friend.
What more could any nerd boy want?
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This show needs to be brought up to date.
maybe anchor it with a hip contemporary comedian?
i'm sure it would make lots of money
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...although supposedly a movie is in development, slated for a 2012 release. I think a series/mini-series might be a better fit for the subject matter.
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Suggestions: Kara aint no ghost, but a clone or maybe.....A CYLON, bitches?
Let the President live to set foot on Earth, before killing her off, heartless bitches?
Dont kill the hot black chick via suicide; let her F#$@ her way to an early grave?
Must we RAM the BASESTAR? I mean, really?
Go back to Season 2's "Exodus" for inspiration. Do that shit again!
Please, not another Star Trek. That thing was so awful...If not Star-Trek, totally different names, planets, etc, ok, would have been a great fun movie. Had they stuck with the Trek story, and had the Temporal Integrity Commission go back and set things right, again, great movie. Spitting in the face of the well known Star Trek Story, awful piece of junk. Don't do this to any other good Sci-Fi series, please! (Feel free to do it to bad ones though and make them good. Don't have examples, I don't watch bad Sci-Fi :) )
I hesitate to say it because the original was frankly one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time but I think the message is still pertaent and as long as they stay true to the original it could be a very good movie to remake.
The original was prophetic in more ways than I can count, and groundbreaking in many ways while being entertaining. I would love to see what they'd come up with this time.
Charles Strosss "A Colder War" short story has enough material to drive several seasons of Ctulhu-esque cold war goodness. If you havent read it, do. Does it get any better ? Entities from the abyss, cold war politics and lots of interesting historical characters.
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I'd love to see that done with darker, grittier feel.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
Would make for a couple of life injections.
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It's pretty sad that people still get this wrong. It seems like a script could be written to prevent you from submitting articles when your title has such an ugly mistake.
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When I read OMNI magazine in the 70's, The handle 'SciFi 'was considered gauche. The correct term was SF...
The mind boggles: We are reading an article about another article about which TV Shows should be re-done. Is there not one self-respecting Creator of Original Stuff left? Is this why Young People Today are so angry about the length of copyright?
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Actually it looks like they are reviving it already, so -asked and answered as they say.
-I'm just sayin'
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You know you want it.
But, seriously, I agree with others who say "Do something new".
How about some retro space opera? Lensman or Perry Rhodan? Maybe a Stainless Steel Rat series?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
That and un-kill Wash and Sheppard Book.
Oh, and get rid of the whole Miranda bullshit. The people who ply the lanes of space would neither "overlook" nor "forget" an entire main planet over the course of less than 20 years. Nor could such a thing be hidden as, outer-most or not, it would show up on everybody's orbital computations as a huge perturbation in their plots. Let alone one ten-year-old with binoculars.
Oh yea, and drop that whole "all the planets orbiting one sun" nonsense since it isn't workable. Miranda would have been frozen ice-ball _or_ the "inner planets" would be molten slag.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the show. The movie needs to be declared out-of-cannon before the series would be workable.
I could have come up with a better "reason for the reavers" in my sleep. The original one from the series (mental erosion from facing the emptiness of space etc) was good enough. Hell, the movie contradicted the series directly. If the Pax caused reaverdom, the the episode where the one guy got tortured and became a reaver himself woudln't have worked unless the reavers carry a supply of the otherwise secret Pax around and deliberately pre-expose potential recruits to it before deciding who to kill, rape, and eat (in that order, if you're really lucky).
So yea, it needs a reboot.
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I'd love to see something else done with Bucky O'Hare, keeping it true to the comic and with fantastic animation. They can keep the theme song from the original cartoon though, that thing is catchy! BUCKY! Captain Bucky O'Hare He goes where no ordinary rabbit would dare
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Firefly was already a reboot of Blakes 7 - although perhaps unintentionally, but it was almost as similar to Blakes 7 as RDM's Battlestar was the the original Battlestar.
Paul Darrow, who played Kerr Avon on Blakes 7 has said that he thought that Firefly was basically an updated version of that show.
Firefly doesn't need to be rebooted, it just needs to go back into production and be picked up by someone.
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How about People of the Wind, by Poul Anderson? Make the CGI people REALLY stretch themselves instead of just painting humans blue.
because the camaraderie of the new crew was leaps and bounds beyond any of the series that followed TOS. While it was not "Trek" for all people it was fun to watch the characters interact.
As for the rest, some must remain as is to maintain the status they had. Babylon 5 (is it really 15 years old?) was great for what it was when it was. While I would not mind seeing new stories based on that universe I don't want to see the old stories again. Part of its allure was the interaction of the characters in the show, G'Kar and Londo, Sheridan and Delenn (even Sinclair and Delenn) let alone Bester. I would love to see the Dilgar War and earth coming of age, that would be great.
1999/UFO. Both were good for their times, but science has come a bit further and more pressing concerns are at home. Unlike distant Sci-Fi they would be a little too close to our age for comfort.
Firefly? No. Leave it or bring it back with the SAME people. Rebooting it would be like, oh I don't know, somehow claiming the original was flawed because of the characters. It was very character driven. Probably why I liked it almost as much as B5 or the new Trek. The SciFi part doesn't have to be amazing if the characters truly are interesting/believable
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I think you could probably refresh the tech in WarGames and make it infinitely better by updating the cast.
Yep.
I think they've been trying also to re-make Logan's Run for some time.. which would be ok I guess.
Wow...just dated myself on that one
I always wanted to see this series completed. never happened. and the series had issues, like the music, and the main actor was Mr. Brady from the Brady Bunch movies, but it had potential until TNT execs tried to turn it into "Wrestlemania/Sexromp in Space"... ironically, SyFy channel has since been plagued by the meme of the same execs. :)
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Threshold was one of the best shows that ever got canceled first season. Good scripts and an excellent cast. It even managed to be inventive in a subject that had been done to death. I actually never saw it during it's original run but caught a couple of episodes on scifi channel and wound up buying the whole series. The last episode was a little silly but otherwise it was a solid show.
I was trying to be funny when I wrote this - as I didn't notice it on the list. However, In typing it out, however, my ADHD mind thought of a million ideas for a realistic comedy based on a robotic future with a working Joe dealing with life as his wife, kids and robotic maid (can we use the word, 'android,' without pissing off PK Dick?) work through various scenerios.
...what? I saw that this weekend?
Or maybe we can find a new movie in which Sigourney Weaver can wake up from hyper sleep and then take on some alien presence...
Nevermind.
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Ultraman, Johnny Rocko, Buck Rogers?
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Starwars. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 especially.
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Logan's Run could use some reboot loving it was a fairly entertaining serie with potential for some good "revival"
and the Masters of the Universe? Bleah.
Here were my ideas.
1) from the series, yep, some people go crazy when they spend too long on the edge of that much nothing.
2) in the series it was mentioned that, despite the rumors, there have never actually been any aliens or alien artifacts found. What if there were something so alien way, way out there, but attractive enough to draw people in, that was so alien that it broke the mind. (Would have dove-tailed in with River being prescient and mad, suppose the blue-hands were working from "the only reliable evidence" ever beamed back, trying to unlock the secrets and abilities of the thing without bringing on reaver madness.)
3) Evil government experimentation, version "not-dumb", something infectious. Call it Pax if you want. Give it the same reason and history, but instead of a "chemical" or in _addition_ to it being a chemical have raverdom be an Infectious Prion form of the original chemical (see mad cow disease). Still need to drop Miranda and the one central sun, but now being force-fed a little reaver flesh would maybe make you one of the family. Hell, "The Miranda" could have been a freaking cruise ship and the thing would work, but not a planet.
At a minimum, some serious retcon needs to take place to repair the plot damage the movie inflicted on the franchise.
I just wish they would ask me about this stuff before the script goes into production. 8-)
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The only show I could really get behind a reboot (even after the successful reboots lately) would be the Starlost. And the reason for that is that it didn't have a proper chance the first go round.
Get Ellison behind it for real and it would be a great show.
Mod me redundant - I don't care.
Firefly Firefly Firefly.
The more times someone sees this, the more of a chance it will happen.
MORE FIREFLY.
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rediculous.
I liked that show. Alien kills dude to inhabit his body, by accident, and takes care of the guys son as they are fleeing the law. Though the son is OK with the alien sounds a bit far fetched...kind of like "yea shit happens, might as well move on with my life and deal with the cards that were dealt to me". Still i would see this.
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For God's Sake, can't we have something original? Reboots are for tired old franchises that have a diminishing following and need a kick in the pants to get going again. Otherwise, it's a remake, not a reboot, and I'm frakking (reference intended) sick and tired of seeing stories from 30 years ago rehashed yet again. So just stop it, ok? We all act like there's only 10 or 12 properties in all of science fiction.
That said, I would have to vote for Firefly returning. A reboot is absolutely not necessary -- I do not need to see the same stories with different actors -- just continue the story, perhaps as a limited series of 6 to 13 episodes once a year, like they do in England.
I think the problem with Heroes was that they just plain ran out of story. The first two seasons worked because they had a preplanned story arc. The last seasons are floundering because they don't. Rebooting will not help -- it'll just move the problem to a different set of actors. Let Heroes die and allow us to remember the first seasons -- when it was still good -- with fondness.
In the case of Star Trek and James Bond, a reboot was necessary if we were going to have more of these franchises. Not having more of these franchises was -- in my opinion -- an acceptable alternative, but the idea of a reboot was interesting, and proved fruitful. Continuing with increasingly elderly actors and every film trying to be exactly like the previous film was clearly not working.
Here, I'll give you an idea for free that combines a story that hasn't been done yet with a current franchise, making it simultaneously new and marketable. Make a series from Andre Norton's "Star Rangers", but make it part of Trek canon. It's thousands of years in the future, and a old limping spaceship from the broken fragments of a federation crash lands on a planet that used to have a high level of technology. The survivors of the crash attempt to survive from the remnants of old technology found in the dead cities. At the end of the story, (first season) they stumble upon Star Fleet Headquarters and realize they've found Earth.
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R.A. Lafferty is a "different" kind of SF author. Too odd even for many geeks, Lafferty stories are to science fiction what Salvia Divinorum is to hallucinogens. Wildly different and completely disruptive. Great creative fodder there just waiting to be mined.
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I remember attending a science fiction and fantasy convention and finding a note in the program explaining the difference between SF and SciFi. 'Old school' science fiction fans used the term SF and considered SciFi to be an insult. They did, after all, have do endure some of the worst of what Hollywood put out back when going to the moon was pure science fiction. Newer science fiction fans use SciFi and are used to some of the better quality science fiction in media and print.
All snark aside, it would be a great way to put Brendan Frasier in the Wednesday post-primetime slot on TBS he so richly deserves.
That one had the potential to Rock really hard.
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Used to race home from school to watch this. I wanted them to fire the wave motion gun in every episode. :-)
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What about Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon? Neither has had a movie or show that lived up to the original newspaper comics for originality or imagination. (Yes, I see the oxymoronic combination of 'reboot' and 'originality'.)
It was off to a great start in Season 1 and then they completely ruined it by killing off William Boone. It was all crash and burn from there on.
Agreed. It could make such an awesome franchise, but the risk to this classic is great.
Another option that could be done would be Johnny Mnemonic. I rather enjoyed the Shadow Run inspired environment and would love to see it drawn out.
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There's so many good sci-fi stories out there that Hollywood shouldn't need to resort to rehashing old ideas into modern blockbuster performances. The problem is that with the emphasis that is placed on sex appeal and special effects, most of what's good about science fiction gets left out, and turned into what I like to call "science fantasy". Now I've always been a big fan of Star Trek, and was impressed with the treatment that was given to the latest movie, but I still consider it to be in the realm of science fantasy as well. It's showy, and glitzy and impressive, but the story gets sacrificed in order to get butts into the seats. Science fiction, while providing excellent entertainment, also maintains a strong intellectual element. That gets lost once the focus is put into other areas, and the whole genre suffers as a result.
Science fiction afficionados are able to sit and watch something that is more cerebral without getting bored with it, and appreciate the story more than the general public. All of the focus on reboots and sequels is making science fiction stagnate. It doesn't make it more mainstream, but it pollutes it with all of the elements that Hollywood needs to make money. Take a look at "I, Robot" for example. There's a good example of a story (set of stories, actually) that had excellent potential to become a great science fiction movie, but got bastardized by Hollywood in order to sell more tickets. by the end of it, other than the title, Asimov's "3 laws" and a few minor story elements (lying robot, mind reading robot, Susan Calvin, USR) there was nothing that even identified the movie to Asimov's original text. To me, that's poor story adaptation, and made for poor science fiction.
I'd like to see Hollywood take a real chance on some proper science fiction. They probably won't get a $300 million blockbuster out of it, but they'd get a good movie for a change.
Just reboot back to the ST:TMP.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again -- the darker re-imagined ALF would be a blockbuster (I'm seeing this version of ALF as a movie, just to be clear).
We could establish with the big effects piece: the destruction of Melmac. We could shock the audience right away by killing off Lucky. Pretty soon it's a hunted man movie -- this year's District 9 -- and away we go!
We'd do all the big character surprises, too. Willie would be a female, maybe a hard-drinkin' fighter pilot with a bit of the reckless sex streak. The nosy old lady next door could be a transvestite (very edgy). Before the first act is done, ALF is halfway across the country -- a vast break from the original series, I should add -- and has left a trail of broken lives and broken promises behind him. There would the climactic fight. Willie avenging her dead cat. Lots of dialogue -- total ripoff of Kill Bill's climax. And the final blow. ALF is dead.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
.. Wrestling! (which I believe is actually getting a reboot)
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Do it right this time; the world is ready for power armor.
Do it for the Lieutenant!
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It may not be Sci-Fi, but it's a good show. Last episode even had a wink at Dr.Who, with a Dalek at the back of a room.
And yet, there's talk about ABC cancelling it. After making next to no promotion for it, giving it a bad time slot, etc.
So I say forget about it. If a show requires any amount of brain power, the american networks will cancel it and replace it with a new singing/cooking/dancing/whatever so-called reality show. Like it or not, there's a lot of idiots out there and they're now the biggest marketshare.
The best recent example would be the SyFy network. Only a fucking moron would write Sci-Fi like that. It's not syence fyction for crying out loud. And they're supposed to be the network for science-fiction shows.
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I loved the show as a kid, but I recently saw a couple of the remake episodes and they were terrible. Someone who must have never seen the original series must have done it, just trying to cash in on the name. Similar sentiments for The Twilight Zone. Don't get my hopes up like that.
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Reboot does not mean "make more episodes of a series" or "adapt a series for TV/film"
Reboot means, "restart a series in a way that likely will have very little similarity with the original."
Strangely, american comics are better at doing this than tv/film writers are. The only example of something I recall that I *like* how the reboot is going is the recent Batman movies, but that is, ironically, a reboot that resulted from the ridiculous things that the previous run had become.
More new ideas, please. Stop just using the shells of classic shows for their name recognition and nostalgia value.
And then do what?!
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Fiction out there. It's space opera, damned good space opera. The humor and flavor is in the characters, not the special effects budget. If you pick up Santiago, the Widowmaker series, hell, just about any of his books you could make a good episode from each chapter.
Dark Angel was a good one
I can tolerate SW 3-4-5. There's even brilliant moments.
(1-2-3 dont even qualify as mediocre Star Wars)
I suggest re-borrow the good ideas from Stargate, with
ascension and telekinesis and so on. Make The Force into
real sci-fi, rather then Fantasy/Religion thingy.
And make it for grown-ups this time.
And bring back Jar-Jar for two seconds and drop an 5000kg
anvil on him.
I like Stargate: Universe for what it is, but honestly SG-1 and Atlantis were better just because they were fun. They didn't take themselves too seriously, and it worked. It was good sci-fi that occasionally acknowledged how cheesy sci-fi can be. I want a series where every once in awhile the leader character will stop and ask the brain questions like, "If that thing lets you walk through walls, why don't you fall through the floor when you turn it on?"
... no seriously. Slashdot needs to have a reboot with a younger cast. The cast of Slashdot had too little diversity. I'd like to see some more female leading characters... maybe a range of ages and some interesting quirky characters. The whole "Evil Bill" thing got old too. Perhaps we could make a new enemy?
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When theres a heap of good SF books that (with the aid of modern CGI) could be put on screen.
Reboot "Reboot"!
I do agree with the people pushing Blakes 7.
It's a crime that that series is so forgotten.
Then again, I'd like to see more than 1 or 2 eps in an entire series of star trek from the Spock's beard EEEEEEvil universe.
Make is a series.
There's plenty of space there to make the Klingons and Romulans scream "WTF? STOP!"
If you want original though, I'd like to see McDevitt's "Hutchins" series, or Reynolds' "Revelation Space" series filmed... (Galactic North is all short stories, which should fit in an 'outer limits' format easily).
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Alan Dean Foster... with the CGI available now this could be a truely beautiful work
I will make few, very few exceptions for good shows/movies whose ideas need revisited. Star Trek did not need a reboot. Batman desperately needed one since he still remained an interesting character and needed divorced from the Schumaker mess. Bond had gotten pretty stale and silly and hadn't been any good for a decade or two. Casino Royale was a real shot in the arm. I've been enjoying the new Dr. Who series for the past few years.
But as far as your traditional scifi goes, make a new goddamn show. You're allowed to show your roots but make it something new. Babylon 5 was new. It was great. JMS hasn't been able to do anything else with it since. Let the show rest in well-deserved peace.
Firefly came out of nowhere. The basic premise was easy enough to elevator pitch. "Hey, you know Han Solo and Chewie? Ever wonder what kind of stuff they were doing before they met Ben and Luke?" But Firefly didn't just look like a rehash of Star Wars, it was a brand new universe with new ideas and clever twists on old ones.
I will go so far as to accept new stories in established universes. The Japanese tend to do this like with Gundam. Same robots, same sides, but different wars and different characters. Some of these are side stories, some are in the main continuity, they're only united by the Gundam bits. Star Trek went this way but has sucked so hard for so long I just can't be arsed to care anymore. Babylon 5's follow-on projects have had hard luck and keeping up at it only risks pushing it to Star Trek territory.
Put me squarely in the "do something new" camp. Show me something I haven't seen before. If you do something that's been seen before, put a twist on it that makes it fresh. If I wanted to see the same shit I've seen before I've got Netflix and a DVD player. I can watch the old ones again.
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I would love to see a reimagining of Buck Rogers. =-) Found myself watching the two-hour pilot Saturday night on Netflix ... Such incredible potential. Such a short life. The series didn't have a single point to its plot -- instead, seeming to be a hodpodge of episodes like 'Star Trek' -- but maybe a reboot could fashion it in the form of the Great Epic Story of 'Babylon 5'.
Couldn't "SyFy" have a reboot? Maybe it could go back to having a less inane name and try airing programs that were worth watching.
How about "Space1999" & U.F.O. I'd love to see a reboot of those shows.
It might be a good time for a Reboot of U.F.O. since it's getting the big screen treatment for 2011
(Gerry Anderson's got a hand in it so it won't be a disaster like the Thunderbirds movie!!!)
They have already got "Joshua Jackson" (Fringe) signed on. But there's a push to get "Neal McDonough" (Minority Report) cast as Ed Straker
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Quark That show was brilliant.
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Uplift would make an amazing set of movies. Although for action/sci fi my hope would be a Takeshi Kovacs trilogy. Everything from a detective story to martian ghosts.
When it comes down to it I guess its hardly SciFi but I just finished the first arc and I love it.
I would really like to see the definitive version of the Dune saga done right ; without the sort of budget and casting constraints that have crippled previous outings (i.e. "the original" which was a David Lynch 80s style film and the SciFi channel remakes which, while better and more ambitious, still suffered from obvious budget constraints). The Dune saga really deserves better treatment than it has received at the hands of previous studios and directors. The success of Avatar has proven the market for high-quality 3D "epic" Science Fiction films and Dune would look really great if it was done in a similar fashion; with the budget and length required to do justice to the story. IMHO, either James Cameron or Steve Jackson would be good choices to direct, but others may have different opinions. If Lord of the Rings can be done well, then so can a sophisticated and high-brow SciFi epic like the Dune saga.
Because it could be even stranger.
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That is all.
Anyone remember this series from the early 80's BBC? Good show and would work well in a reboot...
Yeah, sure, like I'm gonna act in your low-budget TV show.
Needs a show, true to the book.
In the pilot, they should horsewhip and then shoot an unnamed director who commits the cultural crime of taking an amazing book and turning it into a shitastic movie.
The other setting I'd like to see expanded into new media is wh40k.
Go back to the great old Science Fiction movies, instead of just remaking lousy old TV shows
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While I like some of the suggestions, although I would say FireFly is more in need of a transfusion (hmmm, or maybe the network execs need a brain transplant), they lack a certain level of moldy-ness.
How about Ultraman or Johnnie Socko and His Flying Robot but, please leave in the bad dubbing.
The Stainless Steel Rat could be a lot of fun.
Johnny Quest as live action
Starblazers
Ghost in the Shell
UFO
Space 1999
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Dresden Files
Probe (yeah, you never saw it, I know)
MacGuyver
Punch it!
Rebooting old franchises is in no way mutually exclusive with creating new ones.
On a less than serious note: G-Force
It also makes sense if you have intrest in and knowledge of religions. A better mash-up of hinduism, buddhism, and christianity has not been done, and it's facinating from that standpoint.
Though I'm biased, I want to see the amber series released as a five part movie (I can pass on the second 5 novels, I liked them but they drifted).
They really could use serious re-imagining.
Done well it could even follow through the "original" 9 features Lucas envisioned.
New director and writers though.
Heck, I'll do it. I'd be happy to. I'd like to see 3D IMAX happen too. These movies can be absolutely huge again, and there is a good story thread throughout the saga- including the parts we haven't seen yet after the fall of the emperor.
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Star Wars, clearly. As long as George Lucas is let nowhere near it.
Ugh.. by such prominent capitalization and lack of hyphenation in the summary -- i.e. using "SciFi" -- you're supporting the idea that dilution and trademarkability are viable concerns, thus validating the channel's change to the name "SyFy". The abbreviation for "science fiction" is "sci-fi" . It's not capitalized, and should probably be hyphenated. "SciFi" is the old name of the channel, and the use of this spelling is the only reason the clarification was even needed.
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There is a place in my heart for ghostbusters but unfortunately now it is so 80's we need a more modern ghost busters.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I think FGSiI could use an update for modern audiences. Maybe let The Gemberling gain a few more pounds and then have every episode be based around Maze Master dance sequences.
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Shows that need a Reboot, Space 1999 although since it is 2010 now they should also rename it as 2099. Farscape!, I seen people talking about Rebooting Reboor, well it really doesn't need to be Rebooted, JUST MAKE MORE EPISODES! :-D
That is my two cents on the topic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Above_and_Beyond Cool stories, action, aliens, etc.
Can we please have a grown up version of Star Wars? I love the idea of Star Wars so much but the official material is garbage (lots of cool fan fiction). I think a "Batman Begins/Dark Knight" grown up approach to Star Wars would reboot it into wickedness...
Make the Sith really fucking evil...
Why won't that take some of Scalzi's stuff and make miniseries/tv shows?
But to say every story is a rehash of another story is just silly. Here are some examples of original stories:
Blood Music - Greg Bear
A Fire Upon the Deep - Verner Vinge
Singularity - Charles Stross
Dragon's Egg - Robert Forward
Candle - John Barnes
Spin - Robert Wilson
And many more. To compare them to cowboys and smurfs in space is insulting.
Claudia Black was being interviewed for the new Farscape DVDs or Dragon Age or something and she was mentioning that they are trying to do new Farscape as Webisodes, but were still trying to figure out the financing.
The only Star Wars movie that didn't suck, The Empire Strikes Back, was written by a woman named Leigh Brackett.
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Starblazers is getting done
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cruiser_Yamato#Space_Battleship_Yamato_.28live_action_film.29
The first not so good but with potential.
The second excellent with potential.
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There were a couple of scenes in Avatar that reminded me that I'd been meaning to reread the old Stainless Steel Rat novels. (Maybe it's just me but bits of Pandora reminded me of the planet Pyrrus in the Deathworld trilogy.) Making one or more of them into movies would be great. Not really a reboot since, IFAIK, they've never been in the theatres or on TV before.
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I don't care how much or little money they make, I only care of the movie sucks or not. A lot of sucky movies made tons of money, lots of ones I loved lost money.
Only the film's backers should care if it makes any money.
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I would like to see Neuromancer: the mini-series.
I would love to see "Crossing Over with John Edward" get the reboot.........ooops I mean theboot. :) I mean this show had nothing to do with Sci-Fi.....Nor does WWE Smackdown for that matter. There will be no good sci-fi so long as morons are in charge of what gets produced. And speaking of reboot......don't we have anybody creating original ideas any more?? Special effects does not an interesting story make and the only reason for these reboots are to suck our pockets dry on big-screen candy and the same old tired drivel. Have a nice day:)
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And rather than starting where it left off, it should start when Agent Cooper is the older man seen in his visions.
We need to let Firefly go.
Had the show naturally progressed into its second season, it would've been amazing. But that ship has sailed...right before it sank.
Restarting now would mean coping with the "damage" done by the movie. The entire River/Reaver backstory resolved. Wash and Book dead. A brave new 'verse. It would not be in Joss' nature to simply ignore the movie, or jump back into the time before the events of the movie. He would truly be rebooting the series, not just resuscitating it.
What about Sliders? Fun show, great ensemble cast, interesting concept that postulated about alternate Earths. The first couple of seasons were great, but then they changed the tone to become a lot more dark and dreary. They whacked John Rhys-Davies, added Kari Wuhrer and started ripping off various sci-fi films for plots. Cleavant Derricks's character became serious and less of a comic relief character. They started fighting an unnecessary recurring antagonist, the cro-mags. Sabrina Lloyd was written out, Jerry O'Connell got his brother on the show and then they had some weirdness about two Quinn Mallories merging or something.
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They did, after all, have do endure some of the worst of what Hollywood put out back when going to the moon was pure science fiction.
I think they should do a reboot of the moon landings. It probably lack something without Kubrick directing it but they could make it more politically correct starring maybe a bald frenchman who thinks he's english, or an african american, or a woman, or a time-travelling dog owner.
Seriously.
No reason to remake something that worked. You disappoint people if you don't do at least as well and if you do, the fans feel disrespected.
Better to do something that sucked, better. Like Battlestar Galactica.
Logan's Run, it wasn't done right the first time it needs better acting and better special effects.
Silent Running, didn't have very convincing robots or plot, bad acting and needs a complete and total rewrite.
Buck Rodgers in the 25st Century only this time when ratings go down don't try to make it a Star trek clone.
Flash Gordan, keep the Queen soundtrack it was the best thing of that movie. That Syfy series wasn't very good and I think it can be done a lot better.
Blake's Seven better special effects, better acting, different ending.
Red Dwarf, make it funnier more like the Novels.
Space: 1999 make it Space: 2099 instead of a nuclear reactor explosion on The Moon, have a Large Hardon Collider malfunction and turn into a gravity drive that creates mini-black holes that turn into wormholes and suck in the Moon and it randomly pops up all over the galaxy.
2001: a Space Odyssey make it 2101: a Space Odyssey have IBM make the HAL hardware and Microsoft the HAL software, due to a defect HAL flips the wrong bit and goes psychotic trying to kill off the crew. Until Dave Bowman an Angry Astronaught with a Screw Driver finds a way to defeat him.
Space: Above and Beyond it was canceled before it started to get good. Have the Earthers violate the Chig colonies that starts up a war, but the Space Marines are not aware of that fact until they discover it later that Xenophobic leaders and military had done the Chigs dirty and that is what started the war. Then see if it has a different ending, does everyone in the Angry Angels die, survive, make a truce with the Chigs, or get captured as POWS and another Space Marine group has to rescue them?
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Yes, there's been some good rebooots...
And I understand the appeal - if it was popular the first time around, you can assume it'll be popular the second time around...
And from the fan's perspective, it's always good to see more of your favorite shows...
But do we have to keep rebooting everything? How about some new content?
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Galactica 1980 would have been an awesome series, if it had been well funded.
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I've been watching a number of old cheesy anime series lately - some SiFi, some not. It seems like there are plenty of ideas there that haven't been used much if at all in American TV/Movies.
Then again, probably the American public can't rap their heads around some of the concepts. How about a live action movie based off the classic Ranma 1/2? That sound you hear is the sound of a million sexually insecure American's heads exploding.
i was sad when it finished. not just because it was a sad ending but because i knew there wouldnt be another sifi series like it for such a long time.
Exosquad! Hands-down best Sci-Fi-action show of the '90's, live or animated.
This show is a sit com in which Schrodenger's cat was explained.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory#U.S._standard_ratings
The reason most sci-fi tanks is that it's so poorly done.
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what the hell happened to that moon colony? And the cyborg uprising?
The Lensmen series, done well, would be mind blowing, IMHO.
or Lord of Light.
Lord of Light was a Hugo & Nebula awards winner, but I did like them both.
He really was a good author that never had a screenplay get anywhere near the original.
Firefly: no thanks
The Outer Limits: err, no
Quatermass: Yes as a horror, quality science fiction drama based around an old scientist. No otherwise.
Earth 2: never heard of it
The Fantasic Journey: Although I've somewhat vague though fond memories of this... no
UFO: Could actually be good.
Space Above and Beyond: What little I saw of this was good.
The Starlost: Never seen or heard of it. Annoying kids in the shot so no.
Blakes 7: Avon made the show, a BSG style remake could be okay.
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure: Yet another super hero fantasy, hell no!
Space 1999: Weirded out to the max and somehow making even less sense than the original. Hmmm.
Galaxy Rangers: ... Roll eyes
Roswell: That show was utter shit. No.
Babylon 5: Mixed bag the first time round. While it's influenced everything since for the better, it was a fine balance between brilliance and awfulness. A spin off about war with the telepaths (a parable on privacy) could be interesting and horrific without ever being cheesy.
Max Headroom: I remember the (blipvert) movie well, the TV show not so much. Someone could do that in in blender, most bands on myspace have access to a web cam. The DIY version would probably be more interesting.
MST3K: Never screened in the UK to my knowledge.
The Greatest American Hero: I recall a "Some mothers do 'ave 'em" wannabe plus a leotard and minus any worthwhile humour. Pass.
Dark Skies: Liked what I saw of it but didn't go out of my way to watch the original. Pass.
She-Wolf of London: Never seen or heard of it.
Star Cops: I think I saw one episode... thought it was crap. A police in space show could be good, Total Recall 2070 style.
Invasion America: Never watched cartoons
Thunderbirds: Could be done live action but it'd probably be silly. Pass.
Salvage 1: Never seen or heard of it.
Automan: Garbage, no.
Space Rangers: Never seen or heard of it.
Quantum Leap: Crap, so no.
Lexx: Never quite new what to make of that one.
Manimal: Utter shit wasn't it? No.
Airwolf: Physics be damned, a helicopter can break the sound barrier! No.
I was wondering whether anyone would mention U.F.O, Space:1999, The Man from U.N.C.L.E (which I've never actually seen... I wonder whether Netflix has any of it on DVD?) or Captain Scarlet (which I've also not seen, though supposedly there was a CGI version put out fairly recently).
Other series ripe for 1960s/1970s nostalgia would be Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Honestly I would love to see a series set in this universe. Plenty of things to discuss and a lot of opportunity for character development and all in an environment that would allow for kick-ass special effects. This book and its successors are nothing short of brilliant.
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I agree - the Chronicles of Amber would be terrific!!! It would have to be at least 3 movies, but 5 might be a bit too many to keep people coming. I agree the second set with MErlin were ok, but no where near as good as the original series.
I really enjoyed this show and it seemed that it got canceled just when it was starting to get good.
I imagine most of you have never seen this excellent British SF Series but you should. Despite those elements which date it horribly, it was still far far ahead of its time. This was my favorite show as a kid without doubt and in many ways its still an excellent show and aged well. It deserves a reboot if anything does.
However, it needs to be redone by the British, not Americans, or at least a co-production. Letting American writers and producers loose with it would ruin the show I think - it had an air of understatement that American TV shows and Audiences seem unable to maintain. A US production would be totally over the top and I think that would be a mistake.
By far the best show in the entire list - and amazingly ignored in all the comments I read.
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Personally, I'd love to see the Gap Cycle on the big or little screen. Probably too dark for regular TV without destroying the series though.
The Titanides from the Titan series by Varley are the perfect application for the motion-capture and facial animation technology developed for Avatar.
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I'm amazed nobody has mentioned Dune yet. Or Star Wars.
Alien?
I realize that the question was "NOT SyFy," but really, what's to like about the network in it's present form? Reboot it.
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King of the Rocket Men. Or Crash Corrigan and the men from Atlantis.
Definitely up for a reboot
Changing the name to Syfy is an obvious sign they have jumped a whole school(?) Of sharks. (too lazy to look up what a group of sharks are...)
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Everyone is well aware that Hollywood can't seem to get away from attempts to recreate the last successful show to come along of course, but I really hope they lose the idea that every new show must be done in the style of Battlestar Galactica to ensure it will be popular. That show worked - although personally I only ever watched about half a season if it, I do intend to watch it eventually and I could see its potential.
I am watching Stargate:Universe now as my wife and I are longtime fans of Stargate (despite a lot of cheesiness at times), and I have to say its awful so far. Awful because they have tried to create the same atmosphere as BG, and as a result none of the characters are likeable and I care about none of them. Everything is conflict and every character is a bit of an asshole and thats the best thing you can say about any of them.
BG remade worked well because they had an original style and presentation and good writing. That isn't a formula for success, though. Not every show needs to be BG repeated. Let some originality shine through - of course this is Hollywood where originality is often strangled at birth I know.
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And what was wrong with Starship Troopers?
I know what was wrong with the follow-up direct-to-DVD movies, but the original? I wasn't a big fan of the campy commercials - would've been better had they been proper propaganda ads - but other than that..
Heck, hereby my vote... reboot Starship Troopers.. that is to say... do a prequel, and then do some sequels to the first movie.. consider the other movies as having not existed.
Barbarella, which I haven't seen in a while, would be interesting to reboot. It would need to steal some elements from Iaan M. Bank's Culture universe. I would say just make a Culture movie, but the Hollywood suits would not have a frame of reference.
I have proof that Dora the Explorer is an agent of Culture. I'm just not sure if she is in Contact or Special Circumstances.
Every reboot I've ever seen was a total suckfest. They seem to remove anything good from the source material and give us something dark and totally stupid.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Like it says on the tin. FUCK ALL REMAKES.
How about no more reboots... Star Trek was really watered down in the new reboot movie, and it was just another lame summer action movie, with Star Trek thrown into the mix. Wheres my 2371? I want to see the future of the Federation and other powers, not some past alternate universe crap where a lame wannabe kirk drives an ancient earth car through some desert. No more reboots!!! Sequals, spinoffs, thats fine, make a Star Trek comedy based on a Ferengi family or a Romulan spy, just no reboots!
Avon - Andrew J Robinson (though he is getting old)
Villa - David Hewlitt (Stargate Atlantis)
Servelan - Morena Baccaraine (firefly)
Tarrant - Joe Flanagin (Stargate Atlantis)
My short list so far...
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Yeah, thats the ticket
Is anyone else tired of everything the old media presents us with is either a remake, a sequel, a prequel or parallel to something already existing in some other way?
How about final closure on Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Galactica, etc?
And how about something new?
The only thing I can remember, that was original, was District 9. And even that was more two old things together, to make something new.
And before that, Matrix. THAT was something really new (to me) and great.
How about more of that (totally new stuff)?
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I would love to see this with a Mike Hammer style voice over. Adams' comedy is based on taking tangents on the current events. To do that well you need a narrative tool. It just so happens that narrating in that way is traditionally how detective stories were told on screen. It's too perfect! Personally I actually liked Dirk Gently better than Hitch Hikers, I realise this makes me weird. Possibly I am alone in the universe on this point but whatever it would make a damn fine movie or even series.
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The original short was hilarious, the tv series was so-so but still funnier than most of what is on today
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This would be perfect for a reboot tv series:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081871/
I'm for new ones as well. Most reboots are lame, even if they benefit from modern CGI/etc. I saw The Clash of The Titans is about to be rebooted and thought, What a shame.
How about The Foundation series? What about The Amber series? Thomas Covenant? Yes, I'm definitely bleeding into the fantastical but that's another point - there are tons of solid pieces out there that have not been done, that probably couldn't have been done until now.
I'm still waiting for Atlas Shrugged too. Perhaps it is a simple drama piece and not Sci Fi or Fantasy but it could be seen as speculative fiction no matter how on the money it is these days.
Heinlein, Asimov, Bova, Clarke, Niven - Hell, just mine the HUGO Award winners!!! I want a FAITHFUL version of Starship Troopers!! Tell me what would happen if "I Will Fear No Evil" was made into a HARD 'R' movie? At least a half dozen stories from the "Expanded Universe" collection could make great films!
The movie plotline would need to be dropped (or the series done in prequel), since it killed off several main characters.
I always thought the Antares trilogy would make a great miniseries or tv series. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Antares Alas, Babylon and Farnham's Freehold would be great too. Last but not least... ARMOR. ARMOR. *sniff* Armor. *sob* Damn you, NPH.
Not Flame Bait: Harry Potter.
Flame Bait: Fantasy and SciFi are the same thing.
The problem with Space 1999 is that it's basically impossible to tweak the premise in such a way that it's not completely ridiculous. They are kicked out of Earth's orbit and travel past a different planet every week. To do this, they must be going at several times the speed of light, and yet their Eagles can take off, land on the nearest planet, and then catch up with the moon. In spite of this feat, the same Eagles could not just evacuate them all back to Earth. You simply can't fix this. Either the moon is going at a plausible speed, in which case they've got months to be evacuated and there's no show, or the moon is superluninal, in which case they're stuck on it.
UFO, on the other hand, could work quite well.
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Just think--the graphics in the dream scenes where Alf fillets the family cat would be killer!
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I forgot to include a link to a description of the series in my original post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(TV_series)
Reading it, it seems a remake is already in the works and it will be done in England. I hope it actually gets completed.
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Forget rebooting a series, just bring back MST3K.
There are way too many un-tapped Sci-Fi stories to reboot old material. I would love to see a series based on Arthur C. Clarke's Rama novels.
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"Lost in Space" could be an edgy serious dramatic series in the Battlestar Galactica vein with very little effort. It has all the ingredients for conflict, tension, interesting ethical questions (e.g. Do you feed your son the fuel or do you save it to get back home?). Rebooted, with a spaceship and crew that gets nastier and dirtier the longer the series continues would be a real ratings getter (What critical system breaks this week? Is Dr. Smith gay and what about his relationship to Will, who may also be gay?). Lots of potential.
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soylent green & westworld
two of the all time greatest 'movies for a rained out ballgame'
Max Headroom - or rather to world of Max Headroom should be rebooted, and tooled into a new show.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
How about Spaceballs?
One word: Robotech.
I can't think of a single SF series that I dislike enough to suggest that they should be treated to the crapification process that constitutes reboots today.
You have to remember folks - yesterday's SciFi was made FOR sci-fi fans.
How much of today's sci-fi - series or movies - can really claim the same?
Compromises are made to attract mainstream, non-scifi audiences and to satisfy Scientology investors and really bad, closet Scientology actors (*cough* Wil Smith *cough*).
Half of the appeal of old sci-fi was lack of (imposed, or self-imposed) censorship.
If you made something fantastic and sufficiently intellectual, fewer mainstream people would pay attention, and you could get away with ANYTHING.
You could question the morality of the established culture, or at least hold a mirror up to it.. and you would not be blacklisted as a communist or subversive.
(For the most part anyways.. the rest of Hollywood suffered, but sci-fi escaped a lot of that treatment).
Twilight Zone TOS, Outer Limits, Start Trek TOS, Logan's Run, and Planet of The Apes all dealt with "human" issues like slavery, race relations, apartheid, the Cold War, resource depletion, "settling" on occupied land uninvited, feminism, the needs of the one vs. the needs of the many.
Not that it was perfect - Gene Roddenberry faced tons of network pressure for his parables about the Cold War, using "Klingons" and "Romulans" as proxies for Soviets and Chinese. You just could not make a show that dealt with these issues in a modern context, period.
I will admit that Battlestar Galactica was a well-done reboot, especially towards the end. I watched some sci-fi friends shift uncomfortable about some of the issues raised, like genocide and torture of prisoners and the effects that has on all parties.
(Mind you, the "kill them all" type considered this an example of the "liberal elite disrespecting the US military" by showcasing the rape of Six so soon after organized rape and torture at Abu Ghraib, etc)
Honestly I would love to see a series set in this universe. Plenty of things to discuss and a lot of opportunity for character development and all in an environment that would allow for kick-ass special effects. This book and its successors are nothing short of brilliant.
I am with you... Make a trilogy out of the first three books and I think it would do well. Downside is that there are some similarities to Avatar, which may have some people's hackles up.
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I want SOMEONE to do a reboot of seaQuest DSV...the technology has improved so much that the show could afford to do more than what they could do back then. Bring Back seaQuest!!!
Honestly, there are SOOO many good stories out there. Make something new and leave the classics alone. 1. This will enrich our selection of stories to watch as a society. 2. You will not get the complaints from the fans. 3. You will have shown yourself as an artist, and not just a money hound.
I know, sequels and remakes make money. But so will something new.
How about making the Wheel of Time series? Or a series based on the game Paranoia or Shadowrun?
The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits were all self-contained episodes. How on earth can you do a 're-boot' of these? Re-make the original series with a modern spin? I don't think so.
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Anything, absolutely anything but wrestling and ghost hunting. Hell, the history channel has more scifi than SyFy.
Link for those who haven't heard of it.
Maybe Harlan Ellison could come back and salvage his original vision. Maybe this time the Magicam will work.
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Firefly doesn't need to be rebooted. It was fine the first time around, and it was envisioned just right. What it needs is not a reboot, it needs a revival/continuance.
Babylon 5 ... the nature of the production "network" messed up the second half of season 4, and ruined season 5 (IMO). Further, the sequel series was ruined by various other issues (chiefly the network airing it). It would be interesting to see how JMS would re-do the whole thing if he had the chance.
Highlander ... there are like 2 or 3 different attempts at a back story, several disconnected movies, 2 different tv series, movies that are based on the series and not the original movie(s) .... it's a huge mess. I'd be nice to see a story that has a central arc (like B5, where it's known up front and told in a slowly revealed and sophisticated manner... not like BSG, where they made up "the arc"/"the plan" as they went along, and just barely pulled it off), but more importantly, it has a definite continuity that the existing mess lacks.
Space:1999 ... obviously, they have to change the title. But it was one of my early favorite shows. I'd love to see what a talented writer could do with it. Again, I'd want it to be an arc story, that is pre-envisioned, and not made up as they go along.
The article referenced brings up Buck Rogers. If they could do it more like the original 1930's, and not like the 1980's, then go for it.
Dune was already re-done, on the sci-fi/syfy channel ... like Firefly, it doesn't need a reboot right now, it needs a continuance (the rest of the books).
One other idea: The Six Million Dollar Man. Only, NOT done by the people who did the reboot of "The Bionic Woman". That was AWFUL.
What about that old kids show: Arc 2? With the vehicle that drives around a post-apocalyptic planet trying to find a way to re-build civilization? That might do well right now.
Or the Shazam/Captain Marvel show of the same era. With or without Isis.
Oh... and... what about Mad Max/Road Warrior? I think Mel is too old to pull off a sequel at this point, so why not a fresh look at it.
Someone mentioned Aliens ... maybe. Or even a complete revamp of the Terminator story (and, again, done with forethought, and not "what can we shove into the sequel this time, and pull out of our butts to sort of make it work?").
I enjoyed the book and was shocked to see how badly Hollywood mangled it. They turned the first movie into a teeny-bopper romp and I couldnt even sit through the second (and I really like bad movies). The powered armor was completely omitted and the book also had a fairly deep discussion about what it meant to be a citizen. A complete travesty even by Hollywood standards.
I won't bother wishing that "Starship Troopers" could be re-made correctly with the combat suits and the "Heinlein was Fascist" commentary from Paul Verhoven removed - too late now.
The movie of his other novel that made for great movie material (lots of action and icky scares), "The Puppet Masters" was made on a tight budget with unknowns (save Donald Sutherland in a supporting role) is mostly forgotten already. Among other misses, it failed to bring out the cold-war paranoia that the guy next to you on the sidewalk could be the Enemy about to enslave your brain and steal your body.
A remake today could transfer that to War On Terror paranoia: imagine scenes of everybody lining up for a TSA-type full-body scan (and random strip search)...not to get on an airplane, but to go anywhere, especially a movie theatre. Total Surveillance state justified by the War on Aliens.
One of the best-loved things about the original Star Trek, and most-praised about the BSG reboot, was the sly (or, sometimes, blunt) commentary on issues of the day.
Yeah, B5. The star is getting dim...
The spinoffs and TV movies were for the most part horrible, but I think the universe has a lot of potential. Not sure if JMS would be interested or up to the job. He is not that old... 56, but still. Some bold casting decisions, good writing, a budget, and a studio that gives creative freedom to the team. Ok... nevermind...
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Series prime for a reboot?
#1 Starlost: A crappy Canadian 70's Saturday morning kids SF show. Based on a Harlan Ellison story/script. There is a lot to work with here. This could work very well.
For those unfamiliar with the original - there is a generation ship out of control headed owards a star. The ship is a massive nework of geodesic domes. Each dome is essentially its own culture. The series' heroes are looking for the bridge and a way of saving the ship. Most dome/cultures are oblivious and do not even realize they are on a ship in the first place.
#2 Logan's Run: Another novel turned into a 70s movie that spawned a short lived series that could work. I do think it would work better as a one-off movie, however.
#3 Micronauts: The toys were cheesey but the original comic series #1 by Marvel had huge potential. This could work very well.
.Robert
There are plenty of great scientifictions out there that were never made into radio operas let alone screenplays. Egads, why spend all this money just rehashing something that already exists as a complete and finished work? The better investment would be to breech some new subject into being, to expand the artistic collective of scientifictions overall, thus enriching the minds and lives of people who as of yet have absolutely no idea what the amazing future holds in such far-off worlds as the amazing year 2050!
THERE WILL BE:
Personal Rocket-Jet Propulsion Backpack CHECK!
Aerial Autocar CHECK!
Bees the size of small hummingbirds that are so domesticated you can direct them to supple out your nose perfectly clean using their robust and godgiven kneebritches CHECK!
SO MUCH MORE awaits us in the Amazing year Twenty-Fifty that the human race will fail to become aware of if all we manage to do is keep telling the same OLDE-TIMEY TALES over and over and over again! If that's all we ever did then, by golly, we would still believe that mankind is the center of the universe! Or that beans and peas are totally unrelated! We would believe that rockets are only for children to play with, and look at what we know today: "KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN"! There's no telling what leaps of evolution we may take if we learn to adapt more of the as-yet-unadapted bookwritten scientifiction tales of MARVEL AND WONDER into radio-operas and "talkie" motion pictures!
Or else -- we may NEVER get to see the amazing year 2050!
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
I nominate Verne's "From The Earth to the Moon", not so much because it needs updating, but because the premise seems to have become science fiction again.
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Seriously, how many reboots have been good, ever ? I can count them on one hand: BSG, Smallville, um, er... I absolutely agree: Doing something new would be a much, much better idea.
BSG was really well done if you can ignore the ending: When they got to Earth and found it was devasted, that was inspired. Then we should have seen Bill Adama wandering around the beach they visited, cut to Colonel Tigh saying "Frak!", the end. Would have been a whole lot better then the mish mash they cobbled together afterwards.
Batman Begins was like a reboot of a reboot. The first Tim Burton one was good but I didn't like the Joker that much. After that it got dull very quickly, the scriptwriters seemed to forget what kind of character he is. Jump forward to the reboot; well it's not bad but I was really hoping to see how Bruce Wayne became Batman. Instead, he disappears to China and all of a sudden he is a pretty good fighter and all round tough guy who just needs a bit of ninja training.
Superman Returns was pants. Should have been a Smallville movie. Or not. Anyway, any one episode of Smallville is 10x better than that movie. Star Trek TNG was good if you consider it a reboot; but Enterprise, not so good. What were they thinking ? And we all know what happened with the Star Wars reboots: Han didn't shoot first, WTF ?
I think the reboot I am least looking forward to is Predator. It's going to be difficult for them not to ruin a classic movie. One reboot that might be good, is Tron, but only because the original was too ambitious.
I would really like to see the definitive version of the Dune saga done right
Hell yeah. I'll make your wish come true too if I ever win the lottery. I'm serious.
The Dune saga really deserves better treatment than it has received at the hands of previous studios and directors.
Again, hell yeah and amen.
IMHO, either James Cameron or Steve Jackson would be good choices to direct, but others may have different opinions.
Here is where we differ. Steve Jackson? No fscking way. Don't get me wrong - I liked his LOTR. It looked right, and had scenes that were 100% canon. But he made too many "my story ideas are better" changes to the storyline. It's why nobody has gotten Dune right.
These stories (LOTR, Dune) are finely tuned masterpieces. You can't simply swap out part of it with your own ideas and have them work. Here's an example:
Elrond showing up and giving Aragorn the sword halfway through the journey. "Hey thanks you bastard if you were committed to walking all this way we sure could have used your @%@%# help with the Balrog. Thanks for the sword though. I've really been needing a good sword these last six freaking months."
You just can't drop in your own ideas into the story and have them work. So in the spirit of that I would do NO SUCH THING to my hypothetical treatment of Dune. If it's not in the book, it doesn't make it to the screen. So I'd say that Peter Jackson is probably the exact wrong person to make Dune. YMMV of course.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
How is it a reboot when the series itself is an assortment of more or less unrelated short stories? The Outer Limits did have a revival back in the 90s, and it was... well, the same show that it was in the 50s (except for being in color, having better effects, and worse writing).
I like your thought processes. Poul Anderson's Operation Changeling (short story in F&SF which was later expanded to Operation Chaos), Stirling's Drakon, a true SF action and tech opera extraordinaire, Iain Banks' stuff, as you suggested, along with Sturgeon's classics.
The great thing about the original Outer Limits was that it utilized stories by Heinlein, Asimov and many others (and I recall Harlan Ellison's knockout, The Glass Hand, or some similar title, with actors Robert Culp and Maria Perez).
Not one person mentioned Red Dwarf.
Communal PHAIL.
I know, the MST3K folks are off doing new things, and that's good. All the more reason for a reboot - bring in new talent, a new idea for a series story arc... There are plenty of lousy movies out there to deconstruct. All it takes is a crew of interns to chase down the rights to them...
Why not Renew Logans Run?
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This will really date me, the series that only lasted less than a year;
The Starlost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost
It was kinda early 70's funkadelic (groovy baby) but it had a great deal of potential.
A multi-generation colony ship where the crew dies, leaving only the colonists living in domes. The domes looked exactly like the structures used in the movie Silent Running but much larger.
The colonists are locked off from each other, hundreds of years have passed and everyone has forgotten that they are on a ship. The ship is damaged and heading for certain destruction.
There are hundreds of domes, this ship contains the last survivors of the human race. The ship is thousands of miles across. Each dome contains a different culture and some have diverged wildly from what they may have started as.
Imagine a dome, 50 miles across that is nothing but wacked-out Islam, a Amazonian dome with jungles....
The potential varieties are amazing. All of this without even leaving the ship.
Three people have accidentally gotten out of their dome. Think of their culture as 19th century Amish. They gradually
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Although we'll probably never have new real episodes, the site above has fan-made scripts -- based on Whedon's drafts -- for a completed 1st season and a 2nd season that retells "Serenity" over many TV-length episodes. I enjoyed these nearly as much as the real shows.
How many of those SF classics would fit modern attitudes towards storytelling though? I remember EE Smith's "Triplanetary" (first book of "Lensman") having square-jawed American scientist heroes mercilessly destroying the people who threatened them. If Hollywood told a story like that today, wouldn't it mutate into an international force of angst-ridden beautiful people battling the corrupt government to save the misunderstood, spiritually pure aliens?
From the first article:
I guess these guys were completely oblivious in 1999-2001, when WB was broadcasting Batman Beyond, set in 2039. Or was it not cool because it was made by an American crew or something?
egypt urnash minimal art.
...can we reboot a few book series?
Loved Rendezvous with Rama (something that still needs to be made into a movie). The books that came after, not so much. The fourth book is cringe worthy bad.
The Foundation series, with the right author, could be continued. Not going to say that would be easy, but Second Foundation Trilogy put out a few years ago didn't really go anywhere.
I haven't read all of the Ringworld series yet, but I feel it hasn't aged quite as well. Maybe not a reboot, just some rewriting?
On the other hand there needs to be a stop to all the endless Star Wars and Star Trek novels being pumped out.
The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data.
I don't know if anybody has mentioned it yet, but personally, I'm still waiting for a Red Dwarf The Motion Picture.
A few have mentioned the Star Wars prequels, but not much has been said about the original trilogy. My take on it is that *eventually* everything that is successful is redone and/or rebooted. The way I see it is that Lucas has two choices here. 1) He does not want the original Trilogy to be rebooted. Fine. Everyone waits until Lucas is dead and then they fight over Star Wars copyrights, and *eventually* an original Trilogy reboot is produced. Results: Money is made hand over fist. (Note: This is not too different that how the Star Trek reboot happened.) 2) Lucas comes to the realization that the first scenario will happen if he does nothing, so instead, he gives the green light to do a Star Wars original trilogy reboot, provides some basic direction and ILM, but is otherwise hands off. Results: *LUCAS* makes money is made hand over fist.
Maybe now it could be renamed to Space 2099, but i loved that show.
Here are a few semi-cheesey series that might fit the bill.
7 Days Not too bad as is.
Code Name Eternity Very low budget feel.
Earth 2 As mentioned by others.
First Wave Not a terrible premise.
Harsh Realm Came out the same year as The Matrix.
Level 9 Hackers working for the government?
Space Above And Beyond
Space Precinct 2040 Like Barney Miller in space.
Starhunter Interesting premise.
TekWar William Shatner's trashterpiece.
The Invaders The most retro of the lot.
The Secret Adventures Of Jules Verne Too British.
The Sentinel Featuring Fiona Apple's brother.
The Starlost With Keir Dullea - already mentioned.
Time Trax Tootsie as the computer interface?
Total Recall 2070 Could have been better.
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I think Harsh Realm and Level 9 would be the most interesting.
StarBlazers!!!! Come on, this would be AWESOME. I liked this show far more than RoboTech and I hear that's getting the big-scren treatment... Toby MacGuire, etc.
Most of the good stuff has been done, or was recent to begin with (Sure wouldn't mind more Firefly though). Moreover, sometimes the temptation to meddle can be unpleasant. I can't imagine, for instance, a remake of E.T. somehow topping the original. Sure, the special effects would be far superior but almost inevitably the story telling would be poorer and even if somehow managed to be an improvement, many would detest it anyways.
If the Star War's prequels proved anything, it's that childhood Nostalgia is an impossible standard to live up to. Were the prequels great? No, but neither were the originals to be honest. Most children probably prefer the prequels to the originals since the effects are better and they have no particular nostalgia for the originals . . . Ever try to get a kid to sit down and watch a 30 year old movie? No matter how good you thought it was when you were a child, they just aren't interested.
I say this knowing that it would really make a great film(s) if they re-worked the characters and plots of at least the Final Programme. I have seen the original '70's version and, while it has it's upsides, it could really be done much better today.
It's got sex, drugs, humor, rock and roll, time-travel, hermaphroditic super-beings...you name it!
How about this: I Dream of Jeannie? with a real serious side. edgy, gritty...
Kinda surprised NOBODY has mentioned "Otherworld" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_%28TV_series%29) I used to LOVE that show.
BNW a serial? I'll have to look for it for the sake of looking. I know there was a movie that was kinda crappy.
MTV might make Dawn of the Dead a series... read that this weekend. Also, check out Hulu for Kirill
Throw out the move and that awful mini-series. Revealing some of the wonderfully captured Jihand and religious/political/economic issues of a desert war over scarce resources would be... oh, wait, never mind, the 6 o'clock news is on.
Bring back Red Dwarf... Reboot Red Dwarf... Continue the story with the same cast or a different cast... I don't care, just bring it back somehow! And whatever happened to the on-again off-again movie anyway?
For a movie... must have all of the original cast and writers! There! That's all!
Oh, and agreed with all of the above regarding the hundreds upon hundreds of great Sci-Fi already out there in paperback. A lifetime of great NEW material!
How about Starhunter 2300? It ended in a cliffhanger, for crying out loud.
Fear not.... William Gibson's Neuromancer movie is slated for release in 2011
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Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, The Day of the Triffids, Chocky, The Tomorrow People, ...
I'd definitely go for a Hyperion series. Or how about "Pandora's Star". Or "Ender's Game"... good stuff, and (of course) ignored by hollywood.
Logan's Run would make a great darkly paranoid reboot.
It would be a nice commentary on the cult of youth / ageism and disposability that seems prevalent in western culture at the moment.
I was thinking about the previous recommendation of Iain M Banks' Culture novels, but they'd just fuck them up and ruin some great reading :-(
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
Timeslip. Because adults won't get good sci-fi tomorrow if children don't see it today.
Forget reboots lets get something new, Harry Harrison's SSR series would be awesome as a TV Mini Series and would have mass appeal.
I vote for a 3-d version of Flatland
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square" [1], Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Don't forget Lorne Greene. None can compare to the "Voice of Canada" and Badass cattle rancher, Lorne "Adama Cartwright" Greene.
Yeah, I felt so sorry for him when I was watching Galactica 1980. It just seemed like he was really giving it his best, despite it all...
Bow-ties are cool.
Oh good god that movie was terrible.
Robotech anyone? I know there's talk of a live action movie but I'd much rather see it as a BSG-style series.
What about space 1999, but call it Space 2099. I love that show, even though the outfits are hilarious!
A real life friend asked about the reference so...
If you watch the alternate endings on the DVD of 28 days later, they wanted to have a symmetrical ending where the main male lead would sacrifice himself to save the girl's father. Medically they wanted to "cure" to be a huge sacrifice, where it takes one person surrendering their life to save any other from the disease.
The ending scene would then have the male lead tied down to the table watching the scenes of violence on the monitors, in a poetic juxtaposition to the monkey in the opening scene.
They realized they "couldn't do that" because the disease was too infectious for them to do the whol-body blood transfusion they envisioned. They were, of course correct, no transfusion could do it...
So here is the "patch" for the movie to give them their ending, both visually and "technically" at least to the degree of "technically correct" established by the rest of the movie.
PATCH: The cure is basically the original virus that was engineered to become the super weapon. You give that to an uninfected donor person. Then as they go mad the original, slow way you give them a shot of bone marrow collected from the person you want to cure. This contains the infected immune cells of the intended recipient. The donor's immune system, primed with the more robust but slower original virus produces antibodies to unique viral strain created by the fast virus and the recipients genetics. The donor's blood serum now contains an antibody uniquely matched to the recipient which will jump-start their immune system. The donor cannot be re-used since introducing a second bone marrow sample would produce an immune complex that would simply kill the second recipient systemic organ rejection.
Okay, its all techno-babble, but it's _good_ techno-babble. It can be acted out on screen with big pantomime gestures. I has all the dramatic elements the writers and cinematographers were after. It actually makes more sense than a disease so virulent that it can drive you mad in seconds.
But that is the essence of a good patch, it changes the minimum while correcting the flaw and allowing for the desired outcome.
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
Allowing Hollywood dipshits would write something that would appeal to your average slashdotter would be an epic fail. What we need, is for somebody to sort out the decent fiction, and then, find somebody to direct & produce it who wouldn't make a complete abomination out of something that is awesome and classic.
For work not previously made into movies or TV how about:
For reboots, how about a truer version of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files.
You can't take the sky from me.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I really like a lot of the suggestions, but my personal TV favorite is still Babylon 5. Whatever gets rebooted however, I want to see the result of good writing and good production quality. Cheers
Please do not 'reboot' Firefly!
And I'm not saying that because I dislike it. I like it very much, and it is one of those few shows with a special quality resulting from good writing (mostly) and a very realistic between the characters.
That interaction will not be the same with a 'reboot' unless the same actors are available. If those actors are not available - at least a couple of them to maintain the dynamic - it would make any relaunch a likely failure with existing fans.
Think of the last (couple) seasons of Stargate SG-1, after Richard Dean Anderson left. The show sucked because what little dynamic SG-1 had was lost by the removal of a pivotal character.
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I find when a movie like "Land of the Lost" is sooooo overhyped that it falls flat to it's expectations...
I enjoy it more.... Because I have NO expectations.
We watched it on the home theatre, and laughed quite a bit. Dorky, Campy, and oh.. ridiculousness of Will Farrell..
Maybe I'm the only one that thought it was ok. But I do believe that Hollywood overhypes itself sooo much to make opening weekend ratings, that people feel 'oversold' and then word of mouth is vicious.
I dunno maybe you could have that nuclear waste pile explosion blow open a temporary dimensional wormhole causing the moon to bounce around the universe or something. Then you could pass by a different planet / system each week and still maintain some semblance of scifi cred.
How about some older shows like the Man from Atlantis, the Phoenix, Invaders, Kolchak (ok NM, X-files ruined writers for that for a couple more decades), UFO, Sapphire and Steel, Six Billion dollar Man(inflation!), the Tomorrow People (with effect that finally didn't blow goats), Space 1999, Blake's 7, Greatest American Hero, etc.
There are TONS of older properties that could be re-done in interesting ways or sequalized, etc,etc. Too bad the crowd here seems to dine on crappy japanese anime ripoffs and awful battlestar reinventions (not that the original was anything to write home about)
Then again, why not dip into truly old Serials, and re-ivent some cool old properties in modern ways?
I had been hopelessly scanning the replies looking for any mention of Quark, wondering whether I had dreamed of this garbage scow in space. I'd previously found the wiki entry but no-one I know could remember the series ever being shown here. For me, this stood out as a shining moment in comedy scifi during my youth.
3d and all that, y'know
I'd really like to see JMS finish up some of his older stories, preferably Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. If this came out in Hollywood quality, it'd really be a blast.
Also, because that ass Whedon thought it'd be "edgy" or something to unnecessarily, unceremoniously, and inelegantly kill Wash. What the hell, man? The heroes are supposed to be essentially immortal, unless their death is a Sacrifice for the Greater Good. Just killing Wash like that was a complete failure to adhere to the principles of Good Storytelling.
His death did serve a function. It's exactly like you say: heroes are supposed to be immortal, and that would have made the ending of the movie terribly unexciting. Exactly because Wash and Book were dead, was the audience able to believe that the entire crew was going to die.
I'm not against killing off major characters if it servers the experience like that, but you're entirely correct that the movie tried to wrap up too many loose ends all at the same time.
Also, space has suddenly become a lot smaller in the movie. In the series it takes them ages to get anywhere, but here they zip around at warp 10 with a giant fleet at their tail.
Generally well written, a background story arc and long shot odds. Peter Weller was way cool.
Your tastes are law.
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Studio Ghibli apparently held (or was at least thinking about, once upon a time) some sort of rights to a Miyazaki version of James H. Schmidt's Witches of Karres. See http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/books/miyazaki/#karres for a cover illustration for the Japanese edition of the book. An anime version would be awesome.
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I want Space: Above and Beyond.. was a great show, but the network execs killed it before the end of the first season..
How about we reboot Hollywood and the media in general so that they can come up with some original ideas. You know, something new and awesome.
Ender's Game, made correctly, with all of its darkness, and a warning that those on anti-depressents may need to increase their dosage.
aka the "Lensmen" series. It deserves better than the two failed anime attempts to date.
Unfortunately, the way TV is heading, we'll end up with a re-tread of Holmes and Yo-Yo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_&_Yo-Yo
First of all, there is a Space Battleship Yamato live action film coming out of Japan at the end of the year.
I'd like to see Star Blazers done in an adult tone. There is a great depth in Space Battleship Yamato that was almost lost in the translation to Star Blazers.
Reboot Captain Power, get JMS back on, keep it as awesome as the original, and this time, keep on with the second season (and beyond.) That show was *not* a kids show. The episode with the plague kid, the episode with Pilot needing to infiltrate a Dread base, the finale....that was some damn fine television.
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God love JMS, and B5 1-4 were the best TV ever, but, man Season 5 stunk of rotten fish eggs. And flower children. And Commander Supermodels.
At least he sobered up* for Crusade.
* high on brilliance and success, not drugs, necessarily.
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What about Quark? Would be nice to see Gene/Gene on the airwaves again.
BTW, Forrest J. Ackerman coined the phrase "Sci-Fi" to honor early science fiction editor Hugo Gernsback, who was also into radio (think Hi-Fi).
Forrey was a great man, but really blew it with this horrid nickname. Trufen pronounce it "Skiffy".
Firefly.
I don't care how sick most of you are of hearing it (my friends are too), I love that show and always will keep hope alive for more Firefly content to be produced.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the skies from me.
Was an awesome show in it's time.
Not sure if I got the names exactly right, but I loved both when I was younger, and both could be rebooted successfully.
How about Spider-Man?
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Is it just me, or didn't George Lucas say he was going to do more? (A very long time ago)
Ok, the clone wars is ok... but I remember watching George Lucas on TV back when the Ep. V came out he was talking about getting ready to do Ep. VI, and he said the first three movies were actually the middle of the story, and that he wanted to go on to make not only Episodes I-III, but also VII, VIII and IX.
The story's not over with the death of Vader and the Emperor.
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Reboot as Space 2199 :)
It's about time they Reboot SPACE 1999 !!! just change the damn year