Remake This SF Movie, and I'll KILL/LOVE You!!!

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I'd like to see Starship Troopers remade properly, to cleave to the book, but there's fat chance of that.

--Anthony

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Remake Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles from 1999-2000. If you think Firefly got canceled because of a terrible timeslot on Fridays then imagine the difficulty for Roughnecks. I'd get up at 5:00AM to watch it because I did not trust the programmed VCR to start (although the VCR never failed to work) and then I'd rewatch it on tape in the afternoon. The final 3 episodes were not made. The remake, which need only be an hour long to cover those 3 episodes with the voices of the original actors already recorded, would finish the story. Or why not remake all 40 episodes with improved graphics? Until then I will not know if Rico kills the Bug Queen hidden under Hawaii. Every kid wants to see soldiers in power-suits and robotic walking machines wading across molten lava streams!!!
http://misterhook.tripod.com/roughnecks/episodes.htm
The missing episodes:
133 Home Front
138 The Gates of Hell
139 Circle of the Damned
140 Final Inferno

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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I'm with GWEK, yes, it's cheese, but it was damn good cheese!

I am of course, a little biased cause I learned a very important life lesson, early enough to take heed of it, from Gelts throne room speech.

But there were so many innovative concepts, like Nestor as a tendril of a bored hive mind, the Kelvins infrared communication, and the concept of actually using tactics in a space battle, from a set piece ambush to a run-n-gun mobile offense, which given the pathetic budget they had for the model and camera work, they did a holy hell of a job representing.
(to where multiple B-flicks rob the footage regularly, no less)

And how can you not love John Saxons pompous, overbearing, LARGE HAM, Sador of the Malmouri ?

Lesse, casting, hmmm...

Shad: Hmm, dunno, thinkin maybe former kid-actor in need of cash/work here.

Gelt: Michael Ironside, old enough, bitter enough, and quite convincing.

Sador: Hugo Weaving, good gawd, just take Elronds pompous delivery and darken it up some.

Cowboy: Bruce Spence, he's just goofy enough for it.

Nanelia: Christina Hendricks, that'd be HI-larious.

Saint-Exmin: Gina Torres, hands down.

Zed: Clint Eastwood, he'd have fun with that one.

Cayman: Michael Dorn, I'd love to see what he could bring to that part, has the voice, body movement, and style to carry it well.

Nestor: Give someone from the B-list a chance, here.

Nell Voice: Yeardley Smith, yeah, she does Lisa Simpson, but honestly, I will ALWAYS remember her as Curtiss's wife from Maximum Overdrive.
Currrtis ? are you dead ?
Hoo boy howdy would she love the part, too.

Btw: the reason the Sound Track is in fact so much better than the movie itself was cause that's James Horner, before the awesomeness of Wrath of Khan brought him to the mainstream - if one listens closely, there's plenty of similarity, although WoK is more grand epic space operatic type stuff, and BBTS is boot to the head action story.

-Frem

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The definite no-go areas are:

2001 - it was a fantastic film, it is a fantastic film and will always be a fantastic film. How could you possibly emulate the film without it just being a very poor giant rip off or a straight scene-for-scene remake which would redefine the word 'pointless'. Of course if they want to make 2061 and 3001....but then we aren't talking remakes.

Blade Runner - Simple, just don't go there. Don't even think about it.


Things that could be re-made:

Gatchaman/Battle Of The Planets - I'd like to see this done properly (live action) as long as they base it more on the original Japanese version than the butchered US version, although it's the US version that got me into the show. Might be a bit cliched for today but I'm sure they could bring it up to date. Plus the Phoenix is a great looking ship.

Logan's Run - A good call. It's a great story but does look very dated these days.



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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
Hello,

A good Leyte Gulf movie featuring The Battle off Samar and Taffy III. There's been lots of History Channel movies, but I'd like to see something big-budget and very slightly fictionalized a-la Tora-Tora-Tora.

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That'd be great. I assume you've read "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer.

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I'd like to see Starship Troopers remade properly, to cleave to the book, but there's fat chance of that.

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I too devoutly wish for this. I'm afraid it won't sell to film execs because they'd just see another "Iron Man" type film.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Hello,

?!? I just watched a clip from that Roughnecks cartoon. Apparently better than the movie, but... even in a CARTOON they chose not to do the suits? Do they deploy as they do in the book? And do the early episodes show the recruitment and training process?

Geezer, you're probably right. They'd probably say, "We can't compete with Iron Man" (or Voltron or Power Rangers or Transformers) and overlook that competing with iron man isn't the point of such an enterprise.

I have read many summations of the battle off Samar, but not Tin Can Sailors. If you recommend it, it's going on my waiting list at the Library.

--Anthony

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