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[hidden email], "Marc Martin" <marc@...> wrote:
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> > I have one question will the movie take place in the same time
> > peroid as the show in the 80 or present time?
>
> The press release said it will take place in the year 2020. I see this
> as repeating the same mistake made by the original. When that year
> comes and goes, people will point out how the future was nothing like
> what was predicted.
>
> Better to just set it "sometime in the near future", and don't pin
> yourself down to a date.
>
> Marc
>
As far as nameing a date for the show let me point out something that any scifi show a problem, that sooner or later, usely sooner, it will start to show it age. Look at Fordden Planet, or george Pal's War of the Worlds. Withsaying that, any movie done well will stand-out as the standard.
Frank