remake / re-imagine
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Saturday, September 8, 2007 16:15
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Originally posted by GWEK:
not to mention FRANK BUCK'S BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE and CASABLANCA: THE SERIES.
Ah feels a list thread comin on! step up now people!
(not to mention casting nathan fillion as THE FALL GUY!!! well, he's gotta truck going spare right?
ha ha!)
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I, Robot, in the strangest and yet most logical possible sense: instead of the crappy Will Smith vehicle film where Susan Calvin is young and pretty and the whole story is only loosely based on an atrocious and rushed-feeling reinterpretation of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics with references to random Asimov short stories...
...I want it to be a 13-episode, semi-episodic Limited Run Series, based on the original "novel" (really a collection of 9 previously-published short stories with framing narrative added in), where a reporter guy is interviewing an OLD AND CROTCHETY Susan Calvin on her retirement, and we flash back to the stories she's talking about (with a PLAIN-looking actress playing her with her CROTCHETY personality), with her snarky comments added in as narration. Each episode could be either one of the original nine short stories, or one of a handful of other Robot short stories he did.
I would also like to see a high-quality series of miniseries based on the other Robot/Empire/Foundation novels, with the tech and terminology only slighted adjusted to be a little more in line with our current advancements (for instance, let's stop calling cars that go along the ground "groundcars", shall we?). Probably won't happen, but you never know.
I would also like to see a reimagined Blood and Chocolate movie that didn't change so much from the book. Basically? Adapt it straight from the book as well as you can. And then chop off the last chapter of the book, because it SUCKED and felt tacked-on to provide crappy "closure" that made me want to punch the author for being a sellout, and the story's much better off being ambiguously-ended.
I would love to see a re-do of the Dresden Files TV series, too. SciFi's version was mediocre TV at best to begin with, but once you've read the ACTUAL BOOKS it was based on, well, let's just say I wanted to take a red pen to the scripts and a Clue Bat to the casting director's head. God DAMN but them casting Morgan as a black guy confused the hell out of me when I started reading the books (he's a redhead in the books, do the math)! The actor was actually good, but yargh. And of course, "good actor" can't be said of Harry, who POSSIBLY almost looks right, but is far too bland to be Harry. My Harry Dresden does NOT talk like that or lack emotion! He is one big BALL of conflicting emotions and desires, wrapped in a huge layer of snarkiness and humor. Also, why the hell is his staff suddenly a hockey stick, am I missing something here? And why is Bob the Skull no longer an intangible spirit of air inside a skull?
So yeah. Would LOVE to see The Dresden Files with better casting and less watered-down scripts and fewer weird changes. The books each have enough material for several episodes, and really, if they'd gotten, say, Jane Espensen (writer of, among other things, Shindig, and the "Earshot" and "Band Candy" episodes of Buffy) on the writing staff, see, that would have been MUCH better.
I also would have liked to see a continuation of Wonderfalls or Tru Calling - but only if they kept the same main cast of course, otherwise just leave them be.
And hmm... oh! I know!
Gothika and Catwoman. No, seriously. I have this really perverse desire someday to remake them, or any movie really that could have been entertaining and just ended up (so I've heard) royally sucking.
Now, I haven't seen either, but I understand both have incoherent if not just outright stupid plots and are either completely forgettable or generally thought to be indescribably awful.
I would love to make a Catwoman movie actually based ON Batman's Catwoman, and make it reasonably good, at least in the sense of being entertaining and at least somewhat coherent.
Also, Gothika had an interesting starting premise - apparently, a psychologist is driving along a rural road when she comes to a covered bridge, where there's a girl just standing in the road. She gets out of her car to ask the girl if she's all right, and then BOOM, suddenly she's waking up in a psychiatric fac
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I'm thinking alot about old cartoons recently. Probably because Transformers came out this summer.
In the early 80's ther was a cartoon show shown in the UK called 'The Mysterious Cities of Gold'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold
The basic story is about three children who join a conquistador expidition to find the fabled cities. A reasonable but mediocre idea for a show, but there is a twist. Turns out all thos myths about the Inca/Aztec/Olmec empire having futuristic technology, (for example http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_7.htm ), are true and that the Children have a strange history/destiny with the cities of gold.
All the characters are there that you need, hero children, comedy releif duo, a rogue who could be a friend or foe, bad guys and then uber bad guys. There is the mix of ancient and futuristic technology and a quest and a destiny to be fulfilled.
pitch it as Spy Kids meets Indiana Jones meet Apocalypto with a big dose of the A New Hope for luck.
Anyway, with a little re-writing it would definately work as live action. In fact I already know what the first 20 minutes or so look like in my head.
EDIT: You can watch the show on TV-Links: http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/2/8020
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I was just thinking of Valley of the Dinosaurs, the one where a family get sucked into a whirpool whilst rafting only to surface in the aforementioned valley... but it would probably be CGI, and I've had enough of CGI dinosaurs. Toy plastic dinosaurs on the other hand...
Also, what about Battle of the Planets?
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