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Tim Minear remaking Alien Nation!!

POSTED BY: Peulsar5
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 18:47
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Friday, July 3, 2009 8:45 PM

I know! Cool. Seems SiFi (oops; SyFy) is looking for 'franchises' - somebody want to give them a idea?????

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Friday, July 3, 2009 9:44 PM

It's going to be done by Syfy?

I don't know. I have faith in Tim, but Syfy doesn't exactly have a great track-record of movies/shows. The best one, in my opinion, is Eureka. Though, I never got into any of the Battlestar Galactica shows or any like that.

I'll definitely check it out. Yay Tim!

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Friday, July 3, 2009 9:54 PM

Sci-Fi or SyFy does not like spending alot on their shows. Tim is great, I hope he doen't need alot of FX on the show.

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Friday, July 3, 2009 10:43 PM

Eureka is their best effort so far. The Dresden Files was pretty good, but didn't make the cut. Didn't they back Spielberg's "Taken" way back when?

I won't write it off just because SyFy is behind it - I'll check it out because of Minear's involvement - but the SyFy/SciFi brand DOES give me pause.

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Saturday, July 4, 2009 1:45 AM

Changing its name to Idiocracy, uh, SyFy... is that how to go BK, terminate your debts, export offshore and get a govt bailout?

Illegal Alien Nation, that name makes me want to

Predictive programming not cool anymore.

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Saturday, July 4, 2009 2:12 AM

Alien Nation was so much better than 'V'.



The T.Rex they call JANE!

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Sunday, July 5, 2009 4:01 AM

Seems to have good potential going on this one according to the comments. Looking forward to it.

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Sunday, July 5, 2009 3:29 PM

I loved the old movie and show. Then a friend pointed out to me that every week the premise was, "The aliens were keeping a secret that was kept hidden until . . . " and that weakened it a little bit for me. If Tim can steer clear of that, I'm all for it. But at LEAST put in a guest appearance from Mandy Pitinkin as an elderly Newcomer Show the original movie some love, Tim!

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Sunday, July 5, 2009 3:30 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Eureka is their best effort so far. The Dresden Files was pretty good, but didn't make the cut. Didn't they back Spielberg's "Taken" way back when?

I won't write it off just because SyFy is behind it - I'll check it out because of Minear's involvement - but the SyFy/SciFi brand DOES give me pause.



I agree about Eureka. I like that one a lot. Missed Dresden completely. I'm kinda looking forward to Warehouse 13, too.

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