Posted by Pam McCaughey-2 on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Movie-in-the-Works-tp1512075p1512098.html

Hi Frank - you have such valid points I cannot disagree with you. Altho I couldn't get into the new BG and of course the OLD BG was not a fav of mine anyhoo, I do understand that sometimes a new take on an old favourite CAN work. I have been looking at an old US TV series called The Invaders (w/Roy Thinnes who starred with Ed Bishop in GA's Journey To The Far Side of the Sun) and when I sourced out info on the 4 hr miniseries based on the original 1960's series the reviews were ALL bad. Apparently it bore little resemblance to the TV show it was supposed to come from and Thinnes was only given a minor cameo role instead of the title role. Word on the Net also says there are remakes coming for shows like The A-Team and others - what will happen to them? Will we get to hear a silver haired cigar chomping leader say "I love it when a plan comes together" ?? Any big black guys with tons of gold jewelry saying "Shut up, fool!" ?? There's even a rumour someone wants to remake The Lone Ranger! Yikes!

I think what happens to many remakes is that the writers/producers are so eager to make a buck, they forget who the REAL fans are and they never make the remakes for those who loved the shows - just some nebulous idea of who might go to it in the theatres in the here and now. But the sad part is - the people they SHOULD be making the remakes for (if they do them right in the first place) are the fans who've kept interest in the shows alive for over 30 yrs (I bow to Marc Martin for this point) - not the teenagers who weren't even gleams in their fathers's eyes when UFO, etc were on TV back in the day. If the movie makers want to increase the movie going demographic for between 35-55 then remake those old TV shows over the way they WERE - with as much of their original charm as possible - and include as many of the original living cast members as possible. Remember what happened to Thunderbirds, Trek, Mission: Impossible, the Avengers - need I say more?

Pam the Canuck






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