Posted by James Killian on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/UFO-Movie-in-the-Works-tp1512075p1512103.html

I've been away on vacation for the past couple of weeks so imagine my surprise coming back to all this email about about a UFO movie on my computer.
I am half like Pam who I agree with about the film turn our favorite show into a spoof like so many other of these so called movie remakes that have been done over the past 10 or 15 years. And even when they are not do as a spoof like say Thunderbirds the directors seems bent on screwing things up.
On the other side I too feel like Marc in that it would be nice to have a movie showing people what we found so interesting and enjoyable about the original series in a big budget movie. Of course the odds of that are about the same of winning big in Las Vegas. It happens but not often.
As a student of films and TV I know that we are not going to get a real remake of the original series in a movie. All you have to do is look at all the remakes of of things make over the years and I'm talking about films and no one has ever done a scene by scene line for line remake of anything, Even producers and directors who remake their own pictures don't do it. Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is very different from the 1934 original. And the same can be said for his original The Thirty Nine Steps and the remakes by other directors.
The possitive thing in this is that the producer is if it gets done is going to be Bob Evans who is noted for such films as Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and other films which have been serious and dark and nature which is prefect for a UFO film. However on the other hand more recently he has done lighter films such as The Phantom and The Saint which most fans of the character Simon Templar from TV, books and the film series hated. The other unpossitive thing is the script is supposedly being done by writers named Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek. I checked them out and apparently neither has anything listed on IMDB so we are out of luck there for getting a known writer who does good work and serious stuff.
So like in Vegas we will just have to hope our long shot comes in.
Or someone could get Evans and recreate the scene from Chinatown where the guys grab the hero and stick a knife into his nose and show him what happens to naughty little boys.
James K.




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From: Pam McCaughey <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:28:07 PM
Subject: [SHADO] Re: UFO Movie in the Works





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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