Posted by jks on Jun 27, 2009; 5:41pm
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Thunderbirds-Remake-Going-Nowhere-Fast-tp1512377p1512396.html

Griff wrote:
This moral angle is always going to be a tricky one.
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About as tricky a moral dilemma as grave robbing, in my humble opinion.

There's maybe a case for creating a limited number of shots to finish off aperformance largely complete - the case of Oliver Reed in Gladiator comes to mind - or maybe where the odd shot from an old film is too severely damaged to rescue or is lost completely, but not for building a performance from scratch.


The performance of an actor is a personal response to the script, other actors, the situation etc, etc.
This process wouldn't be a new performance by the deceased performer it would be creating a marionette from a corpse.


Incidentally, the chances of such a process being used for a UFO remake are, I would suggest, zero. Any studio producing a remake may not go out of their way to offend the relatively small number of existing UFO fans but their happiness would certainly be a very minor consideration given that the film/series would have to appeal to a far wider demographic.
Expect the general UFO one-line concept to survive (maybe), but not much else. Casting is going to be aimed at teenage boys and Star Wars/Trek fans, sadly a recreation of Ed Bishop, however faithful, wouldn't acheive this.

For these sorts of reasons I'm never one to hold out much hope for new series or films of cherished older series. The originals were a product of their time and the society and people who made them, without all that there is no reason at all to imagine that a new version would have any sort of meritat all.

Regards
John