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Posted by DexterBG on 3/21/2006, 4:16 am, in reply to "Deja vu all over again" : Did a quick bit of research on these.
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Well thank you. Good job.
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: haven't heard anything about "Quark", but I wouldn't be
: surprised if it was remade. Good concept, in my opinion.
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Yes, and that's the reason it doesn't get remade. Like MST3000, a good concept. Too good.
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: The big screen "Get Smart" remake
: is at least being planned, with Steve Carell as Max.
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Surprising, after all those post-series movies that tanked.
They were less that Tv movie quality, in my opinion. And I
don't really count them.
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: There was a "Partridge Family" remake on VH-1 last year,
: apparently.
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Sounds like a made of cable Tv movie. Not feature quality.
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: The "Green Hornet" movie has been
: kicking around for a while. .... I think it's in the
: dreaded "development hell" right now.
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Or that's a cover story for the real reason. Like Batman needs exclusive viewership. So don't give him a potential rival.
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: The new "Superman" movie isn't a
: remake, but is reportedly a direct sequel to
: "Superman II", rendering "Superman III" offically non-existent.
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That makes no sense. Is "S4" invalid too? "S2" should have
been the re-remake point. Because it was just a silly sequel.
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: And I think the proposed "Prisoner" movie has collapsed.
: There is an "official" sequel graphics novel, but no word
: on any movie. I think that's less to do with politics and more
: to do with it being only a cult hit in the U.S.
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Oh I think it was also a cult hit in the U.K. as well.
What I understood was that it was practically finished. Or perhaps
a good way into filming. Not merely in script development. Then
it seemed to vanish. And "The Truman Show" appeared to take
its place. Which was kind of a far less controversial Prisoner story.
And the whole camp Gitmo deal, might have been at risk, if
the original Prisoner movie had gone forward. McGoohan hasn't
made any stink about it either (to my knowledge) which is strange.
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Movies don't have to do good "box office" to be made, or to be
considered successful. There's always "direct to video"
releasing. And overseas markets can recoop the production costs,
when the U.S. market doesn't. And all one has to do is look
at a movie like "Theodore Rex" (1995), to realize that there
are few good reasons why NOT to do a movie, that Hollywood bothers
to heed. And if "Hellboy", "Aeon Flux" and "V for Vengence"
can all be turned into feature movies. I can't see why "the
Prisoner" would be considered too limited in cult appeal.
But those others are all politically isolated from today's
governmental issues. Especially anything to do with our
government listening in on all our phone conversations. That
might have been a sore point with the Feds, who then told the
film industry to back off that. Now that we all know that
it's being done. They might get the green light to write
scripts as they see fit. Like when they once did the "Enemy
of the State" and "Conspiracy Theory" movies, in the late 90s.
And when "The Lone Gunmen" Tv series had a plot about crashing
a jetliner into the WTC. After 9-11, a lot things that Tv
and movies use to speculate on, got stifled. "Ever Wonder?"
Well ya should.
-Dex
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