remake / re-imagine
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'The Matrix' was a remake of sorts, more of a ripoff actually. It's the same basic movie as 'Dark City'. (An excellent movie by the way. It was Roger Ebert's best film of the year when it came out.
Don't get me wrong I loved The Matrix (and hated the sequels like most people).
Neuromancer trilogy is a great idea.
The one I first thought of was a re-imagining of 'Space 1999'... Remember that show?
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They are remaking Logan's Run.
http://www.logansrun.com/3rdmil/logansrun/logansrun.nsf/index3.htm?Ope
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Land of the Lost would be a great candidate for re-imagining (not a re-make, too much 70's camp for that)
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I'd love to be involved in remaking Andromeda. This time with fewer executive producers, a more reliable (if not larger) budget, and no involvement from Tribune.
For a few years now I've also been kicking around ideas for a more serious "adult-aimed" Power Rangers prime-time drama (with a group of Rangers who don't necessarily get along, aren't all teenagers, and won't necessarily survive the season, more backstory to the Powers and the mecha, and villains who display as many shades of grey as the heroes).
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It could be worse they might want to remake "Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills." That was a very weird and scary show.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126175/
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Originally posted by lwaves:
As for ones I'd like to see re-imagined I have to say The Prisoner. This show was ahead of it's time but whilst the story is still great, it is looking dated. I think it could be updated well, bringing in modern themes etc. And be different enough not to be a straight rip of the original.
That's all I can think of now, but I guess we should be watching out for MASH, Columbo,
I just like the original of the prisoner too much for this - though how about the avengers with anthony head and rachel stirling (diana rigg's talented daughter?) as long as it was NOTHING like the movie!
MASH is canon. Columbo is a browncoat (tho' Falk sure aint)
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Originally posted by SlyC:
'The Matrix' was a remake of sorts, more of a ripoff actually. It's the same basic movie as 'Dark City'. (An excellent movie by the way. It was Roger Ebert's best film of the year when it came out.
Don't get me wrong I loved The Matrix (and hated the sequels like most people).
finally! someone else knows dark city! ! ! yes it was indeed BEFORE the matrix people - go check it out...
nice 1 SlyC.
dataless - the Logan's Run remake is in limbo hell. i would prefer a series anyhoo.
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I saw Dark City and it is a really good movie. The DVD has a commentary track by Roger Ebert (he has lost a lot of his credibility when he said the movie version of the honeymooners was good.) The Matrix is not a remake of Dark City but they are similarly themed. If you think that you might say The Matrix is a remake of The 13th Floor too.
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didn't mean to suggest matrix was a re-make just that dark ciy was a BIG influence -
i think it was just as big an influence on the trueman show.
at the end of the credits Dark City name-checks dennis potter, because of HIS influence on them - and so it goes...
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The Matrix vs. Dark City... we could go on and on. In the final analysis it just shows that the Wachowski's can make good movies as long as someone else comes up with the story. i.e. Matrix and V For Vendetta.
Roger Ebert definitely has his biases, i.e. movies like The Honeymooners. I don't think it wrecks his credibility though.
The Ebert bias that really bothers me is:
Jessica Alba.
He's got a crush on her which totally blinds him. She is an amazing beauty but I think most would agree that she can't act her way out of a wet...
sheer, short nightie... *sigh*
Ok, I'm back now...
To get back on topic I'd suggest another run at a cartoon series called 'Pirates of Dark Water'.
Anyone ever see that? All I can really remember is that I liked it...
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