Posted by SumitonJD on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Re-Digest-Number-1099-tp1500798p1500801.html

Big Welcome Back!
Gee, where ever did you come up with the idea of casting the actor who
is playing Tom Sawyer aka Agent Sawyer, Shane West(I looked it up) in the new
movie The League of Extraoridnary Gentlemen as Straker in the movie(trying
so hard to hurt myself laughing).
If we get away from updating or improving the equipment in UFO if the
movie is done for just a moment and look at what we need in terms of the
story. There are really only two routes we can take. One to have SHADO already
established and have it come out of mothballs when the aliens return and bring
in new people in a future or present day setting. Or do it from the start
again. This would mean setting the story in the 1980 and also having to do the
bit with Carlin and his sister and friend finding the aliens and getting the
proof on film and then the bit with Straker and Henderson and the British
Minster in the Rolls set in 1969. Why? Because the primise of UFO was based on the
fact that the U.S. Air Force Blue Book report declared there were no alien
spacecraft visiting Earth and in UFO this was used as a cover up for SHADO. It
will be very hard to use a 1969 report in a film set in 2000 Plus as a cover
for a newly created organization. And there is also that ten year gap while
the base and equipment is created.
I've heard Marc and others say that UFO needs to be updated for todays
movie audiences. That is what been wrong with other movies made of classic
series. Hey let's punch up the script and redo the characters make them more
edgy and comtempory, make them funnier(read that as make them walking jokes).
In point of fact this is the last thing that should be done to a movie version
of any classic series. If it ain't broke don't fix it. UFO isn't broke.
If you think it is or was you aren't really a fan of the series. It
shouldn't be remade in the image of Space:1999 or Space Above and Beyond or
anything else. Because then it wouldn't be UFO. If you don't get this I am
sorry for wasting your time.

James K.


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