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on Tuesday November 03 2015, @05:41PM
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
from the where-no-internets-have-gone-before dept.
Cut and pasted shamelessly from StarTrek.com:
"CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017."
"The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966."
"The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond which is scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016."
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(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:56PM
This is like 1979 all over again. Star Wars is being hyped, so every also-ran science fiction series is being brought back. The articles mention a Star Trek movie next year, too. Did you guys see the news that a Battlestar Galactica movie is being shopped around? If Star Wars is successful, 2016, the off-year for the franchise with a filler movie, will be the year of second-rate science fiction launches to cash in on the interest in Star Wars. I guess the superhero thing was getting stale.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:11PM
Yup. Even the SYFY network is rebooting some actual science fiction after doing nothing but chasing ghosts and bigfoot and vampires for a couple seasons. (all of them done badly - mostly the SYFY network has become unwatchable).
The Dark Matter series http://www.syfy.com/darkmatter [syfy.com] was not all that bad for a first season show.
Not going to call it Firefly-esq, but you can tell they were going for that.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:17PM
The SYFY network has gone to shit. Wrestling? Really? Put that crap on A&E along with the gay bounty hunter.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:17PM
FWIW, WWE Smackdown is moving to the USA Network sometime next year, IIRC.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:52PM
The question remains, how the hell did it end up on SYFY in the first place?
Just because TV wrestling is all fake and make believe doesn't make it SIFI.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:08AM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:26PM
> This is like 1979 all over again.
http://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/star-wars-terminator-jurassic-park-mad-max-what-year-is-it.jpg [starecat.com]
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:46PM
I got trolled on that in the discussion about Oct 21st and "back to the future" I assumed it was only being discussed because of the new reboot / sequel BTTF movie. You know, the one that surprisingly doesn't exist.
Another one that surprisingly doesn't exist is Rambo, either the first where he's a pissed off war vet angry at his countries leaders, or the one where he's Afghanistani Taliban's BFF back when they were the good guys. Both would take some political editing for a 2015 release...
Oh and Indiana Jones. The politically correct rewrite for the Indiana Jones remake would have to be something to be seen.
How about Sorcerer from 1977? That might actually be a "go". That might be a decent remake. Its like "Incredible Journey" but with criminals instead of house pets and trucks full of nitroglycerin in a red pilled 3rd world jungle hell hole rather than the American countryside. Or maybe its the modern American South countryside, hard to say, complete with fraking oil wells and collapsed infrastructure. Other than that, yeah just like "Incredible Journey". I could see that being remade. Its a decent action flick.
Another 70s/80s blissfully thankfully not being remade is Disco Fever. And Flashdance. Err, as far as I know they're not being remade.
Given that virtually all current movies are 70s/80s remakes, its easy to see how one can get trolled into thinking all 70s/80s movies are being remade.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:03PM
Hey, did you hear about the Space 1999 movie they're working on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @09:26PM
Actually, I did hear something about that. How about the British "UFO" show? There's one that hasn't been beat to death yet.
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:39PM
That and they probably are in discussion for being remade by someone someplace because the movie industry is so creatively bankrupt. I originally thought up the BSG thing as a joke, but searched Google and sure enough it turned up a real article from 2014 talking about a real movie.
Still, Disco Fever... that would work. Disco is coming back, I just know it will.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 03 2015, @10:41PM
Considering that after the main show wrapped, they did a TV movie, a spinoff show, and some sort of web series ("Bill Adama, younger and more emo!" or something like that), it's not surprising.
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(Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday November 03 2015, @08:47PM
Given that virtually all current movies are 70s/80s remakes, its easy to see how one can get trolled into thinking all 70s/80s movies are being remade.
Don't forget the 90s remakes, Jurassic Park and Man From UNCLE this year.
I'm looking forward to a matrix sequel - they really should have made it into a trilogy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @09:33PM
Man from U.N.C.L.E. and 90's movie in the same sentence?? What are you smoking??