Computer Generated UFO

Why would there have to be any reference to the year
1980 if a CGI UFO series was made? Just give the
series the look of UFO & just don't mention what year
it's supposed to be set in. You'd find that most
viewers - including non-UFO fans - would accept that
it was the series creators' vision of the future & may
appreciate the fact that it looks a bit 'retro'.

The Dan Dare CGI series, for instance, captures the
50s look of the original comic strip. Also, movies
like Tim Burton's Batman films, Mars Attacks!, Men In
Black, The Avengers & The Fifth Element offer us
visions of alternate presents & futures that have a
'retro' look in their production design.

If you start updating UFO to look like the Lost In
Space movie of 1998 - which looked too much like Event
Horizon in my opinion - then you have ruined the look
of the original series.

Neil

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In a message dated 9/10/2003 1:57:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[hidden email] writes:
If you start updating UFO to look like the Lost In
Space movie of 1998 - which looked too much like Event
Horizon in my opinion - then you have ruined the look
of the original series.
I for one felt that Lost in space the movie had far better graphics and set
production and looked a lot more furriest than event horizon, which critically
was a better film; but more horror than SCI-FI: Lost in space was more true
sci-fi. Of course both pale compared to UFO; which seemed to foster a great
psychological kind of deep rooted fare of the unknown, and was a class act sci-fi
in the traditonal sense.

TMN


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Neil wrote:


Why would there have to be any reference to the year
1980 if a CGI UFO series was made? Just give the
series the look of UFO & just don't mention what year
it's supposed to be set in. You'd find that most
viewers - including non-UFO fans - would accept that
it was the series creators' vision of the future & may
appreciate the fact that it looks a bit 'retro'.

Neil

That hurtle is easily bypassed - making the year 2020 - and almost ignoring the 1980 date. Often movie sequels or updating TV series requires literary license - and even events depicted in the original movie or TV series. The updated version could take a life of it's own. It could also extend the series with a new cast of SHADO personnel. Sometimes it might be better to leave the series in tact and add a new flavor and texture. You could still have some of the original characters - but have them in thier logical progression such as General Straker - Commander Ellis - Admiral Freeman - Commander Foster, ETC. Then ad Group Commander Cain, Captain Anderson, etc. - thats the ticket:)

The question is, as allway, how do we do UFO without losing that "Special something" that made us fall in love with it in the first place? New stardards of special effects can help quite a bit, but the best effects in the world wont help if the story is flat or changed too much from the original.
As for Event Horizion, the effects were the only thing that I really liked. Space, at least, still retained some of the flavor of the original series, even thought it could stand on its own as a Sci-fi movie.

[hidden email] wrote:
In a message dated 9/10/2003 1:57:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[hidden email] writes:
If you start updating UFO to look like the Lost In
Space movie of 1998 - which looked too much like Event
Horizon in my opinion - then you have ruined the look
of the original series.
I for one felt that Lost in space the movie had far better graphics and set
production and looked a lot more furriest than event horizon, which critically
was a better film; but more horror than SCI-FI: Lost in space was more true
sci-fi. Of course both pale compared to UFO; which seemed to foster a great
psychological kind of deep rooted fare of the unknown, and was a class act sci-fi
in the traditonal sense.

TMN


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