Posted by James Gibbon on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/my-thoughts-about-the-UFO-movie-tp1513318p1513321.html

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:36:28 -0000
"Lightcudder" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> The one thing I do know, and I am sure many UFO fans will support me on
> this, is that without a decent Ed Straker, playing a lead role,
> hopefully with Alec Freeman as well, the film will be a dead duck. All
> the fabulous technology and SFX in the world won't be able to save it.
>

Don't really agree with this either .. while the film wouldn't work with
the Paul Foster we already know as lead character, because - as you say
- he is not well-developed or three-dimensional, there's no reason that
the new film's Foster can't be. As UFO fans though, I agree that we'd
rather see the focus on a complex and conflicted Straker that we recognise
from the TV series. But the wider audience doesn't necessarily need that.

I think I'll probably approach the new film, if indeed it happens, in a
similar spirit that I enjoyed the Mission Impossible films. Just forget
the original inspiration, and enjoy it for what it is.

James