UFO movie mentioned in Fanderson news page

Hi all,

Here is an article on the Fanderson news page
about the UFO movie -- there's nothing new here
except the statement that Gerry Anderson has
seen the press release:

http://www.fanderson.org.uk/news/ufomovie.html

Marc

And then there is this that was e-mailed to me (not sure of the original site it came from) - KP

Exclusive: Gerry Anderson on the UFO movie
Martin Anderson



The grand master of British TV sci-fi talks to us about the new movie basedon his 1970 cult TV series…
Published on Jun 5, 2009

I was lucky enough to have a second chat with Gerry Anderson yesterday about the forthcoming DVD release of Fireball XL5, and - being a huge fan of the original 1970s series UFO - I naturally wanted to know more about the newUFO movie announced at Cannes a few weeks back.

"I got a call from somebody in America," Anderson told us. "it was very kind actually - they phoned to say, 'Gerry, listen, there's an announcement going out now [about the new movie] and we didn't want it to come as a shock to you', which was a kind move. As a result of that I had a long chat with them. It wouldn't help me to blow this up bigger than it is, but I have a feeling that I might end up being a consultant on the movie. It would be marvellous, I think...over here there's a rather unfortunate history about remakes; Thunderbirds the film was a disaster, and The Avengers, and so on. But I hope, and I think I probably believe, that this could be the exception."

The rights to UFO reside, as with many other Gerry Anderson properties, with Granada, and the legendary TV producer told us in a previous interview (see link below) of his distaste for Jonathan Frakes' 2004 adaptation of the highly successful sci-fi puppet show Thunderbirds.

The UFO film announced at Cannes is to be produced by Robert Evans in association with ITV Global, with a script being written by Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek. Paramount have first refusal on the project, with the general intention being to create a new franchise.

You can find out about the set-up of the original series here. And stayed tuned for the complete interview, which covers quite a lot of ground.

> And then there is this that was e-mailed to me (not sure of the original
> site it came from) - KP

Thanks! Here is the website:

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/262437/exclusive_gerry_anderson_on_the_ufo_movie.html

There are also (at the bottom of the article) links to an article about UFO
and a Gerry Anderson interview that I've never seen before.

Marc

Cool. I just discovered that site last week, it's pretty good.

Paul


Marc Martin wrote:
>> And then there is this that was e-mailed to me (not sure of the original
>> site it came from) - KP
>
> Thanks! Here is the website:
>
> http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/262437/exclusive_gerry_anderson_on_the_ufo_movie.html
>
> There are also (at the bottom of the article) links to an article about UFO
> and a Gerry Anderson interview that I've never seen before.

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> That's the best news I've heard about this by miles - let's hope
> Gerry *is* asked to be a consultant, as we may (at last!)
> see an Anderson remake which keeps the original spirit!!!!!!

Hmmm, I wonder how much Gerry Anderson was really involved with
the "original spirit" of UFO? I mean, a lot of things that
people like about UFO were due to the contributions of people
other than Gerry...

Marc

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