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I'd rather neither BUT if threatened with a slow painful death I'd prefer a sequel.

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I'd rather neither BUT if threatened with a slow painful death I'd prefer a sequel.

Are they planning to show what happens when the millium bug hits a computer?

Will it be what happens to a dot-com after the go-go 90s?

Remakes! Hollywood is dead.

Some things are better LEFT ALONE !!! :mad:

Remakes! Hollywood is dead.

I could not agree more. It's the same point I made in the BattleStar thread. I'm sick of remakes.

Remakes:
Lost in Space
Dune
Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Who
War of the Worlds
etc. etc.

Today's writers and producers have too little confidence in themselves to take on more new projects. They talk about it but nothing comes thru except garbage like EarthSea,
Riverworld, etc. I believe we're dealing with a generation of screen writers who haven't read the great SciFi novels that won Hugos. They're mostly following a formula and just subsituting some sci-fi elements for regular elements.

This is a beef I have that goes back to Star Trek TOS. The best episodes were written by the great writers like Harly Ellison (City of the edg of forever).

If the movie producers would turn to the great novels of the past, even they couldn't botch it up too much. With today's effects, Ringworld could be a killer mini-series.

Let's not forget to add "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to the list.

Imagine! A world where you are absorbed into a computer and interact with electronic versions of people and 'video games'! Wild!!

Let's not forget to add "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to the list.
They've talked about doing that one for 20 years and their plans always fell through. Hope they don't give it some "new vision". :freak:

They've talked about doing that one for 20 years and their plans always fell through. Hope they don't give it some "new vision". :freak:
Sorry but I think it's coming out this summer !!!

Yes, there's already a trailer for it. The art designs are not based on the novel's descriptions, but the script is still the one writtten by Adams himself before he passed on.

As for Dr. Who, that's not a remake but a continuation. Remember that the fans have been demanding the series' return ever since the Beeb killed it.

Dune? Dude, that's a novel that screamed to have a proper translation to the screen. The miniseries was much closer than Lynch's version.

Anyway, I do agree with some of the things said here about taking on new projects, but I'm not at all against remakes in principle. The problem lay entirely with the vision (or lack of) behind a project.

As for Tron, well, Steven Lisberger himself tried a few years ago to do a remake - not a sequel. Ended up being a video game (irony?).