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Reportedly, New Line Cinema plans on remaking the 1956 sci-fi classic,
"Forbidden Planet", the company has already remade "Lost In Space".
This will be a big budget venture with state-of-the-art FX. I'd
read that Harlen Ellison was approached by New Line producers on
the script and he asked incredulously, "Why?". When he suggested
a sequel, they turned their back on him. My guess is that they
believe they can make a BIGGER, BETTER version. They very well might
in some areas, but I think it would lack the "charm" (a quality that
attracts and delights the heart) of the original. Of course, I'm
biased, as I was raised on FP as a child and it was "burned into"
my highly impressionable mind at the time.
To a child now, the remake might be just the thing, as they, in turn,
might look back at its nostalgic charm years later. It might also be the
version for those adults dissatisfied with the original for one reason
or another. I hope these guys do a good job and don't louse it up by
smothering the unusually intelligent story with FX. - AH
Any Inmates remember George Lucas's "THX 1138?" Great storyline done well. Hmmm, may have to look this one up again, and maybe "Farenheit 451", too.BTW, recognize the THX?
THX 1138 was his masters project. Nice student film huh ?
Also the THX tie in is just a coincidence. The theatre THX designation refers to Thomas Holman. An engineer at Lucasfilm.
Steve
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> > I hope these guys do a good job and don't louse it up by smothering the unusually intelligent story with FX < <They won't and they will.
Who plays Morphis? Clint Eastwood?
May the pretenders to the throne be attacked by "monsters from the id."
nt
Clint Eastwood ref was a joke. Like Hopkins and TG's Connery.
...too surprised. Hollywood cant generate an original thought to save its life so a remake of this compared to, oh, say, Rocky & Bullwinkle, the Flintstones, Shaft and Gone in 60 Seconds to name just a few recent remakes at least reflects an elevation of their sights to a dramatically higher target. Not that I expect they can do this film justice in that it has stood the test of time remarkably well and remains a seminal film within its genre.joe
This is the worst idea I've ever heard of - Forbidden Planet is a classic of the genre - why on earth do a remake? Just so it can be spiced up with gratuitous violence & sex for a brain-dead modern public?Forbidden Planet had four wonderful things going for it, all of which would be destroyed by a remake:
The Krell machine - a great concept realised in loving 1950s pulp-fiction inspired artwork. They could not do better even if they had "two thousand centuries" in which to try.
The United Planets cruiser - a beautiful flying saucer. Again, why re-invent perfection?
Robby the Robot - the greatest art deco automaton of all time. If they changed Robby's design I'll send my "secret id monster out to murder them".
The music of Louis & Bebe Barron, which is the icing on the cake. A totally original concept of using a fully synthesised soundtrack instead of orchestral music - years ahead of its time and magnificently realised. It gave the film its final polish and could simply not be re-created.
"My poor Krell - after a million years of shining sanity ..."
the book, "Cult Movies" by Danny Peary. Some of his criticisms are
valid - what movie is perfect? - but others are pure nit-picking. To
see how Pearys "selective vision" works, also see "Invasion of the
Body Snatchers" in the same book. He has not one single complaint,
other that citing the prologue and epilogue forced on Siegel by
the studio. He cites "IOTBS" as one of the best sci-fi films of the
50's (and I agree), but says nothing about it's major flaw - the
implausible duplication of Becky in the cave. Peary will undoubtedly
celebrate upon hearing about the tentative remake of FP, as he said
it needed a "total overhaul"; we'll see if the remake improves upon
the areas he criticized. - AH
Forbidden Planet is an adaptation of Shakespears' "The Tempest".
How often has Hollywood done a quality remake ? I still get excited when I flip thru the satellite TV menu and see FP show up. It was and is a good script with good vis fx,not just "for it's day" but period.
I would not like to see it remade. There are certainly other Sci Fi scripts that can be written.
Steve
Hi,
when you take the fact that it's original plot has been borrowed many, many times. Combine it with the indifference Hollywood has
towards storytelling; and you have something close to a guarentee.
Which is a shame, because as Ellison pointed out; there is the potential for a great sequel.
FP's central idea was borrowed the following year in a variation in the film
, "Fiend Without A Face", i.e., a scientist builds a device that
allows physical creation via thought; his undesirable thoughts are accidently
manifested in (initially invisible) flying brains with spinal cords attached which attack
people at the base of their skulls and sucks out their brains.
Great B film! Appalling in some ways, but the FX of the flying brain creatures were terrific. The mass attack on the professor's house is still a creepy scene, even by today's standards.
...I remeber seeing that on the ABC affiliate in Houston as a little kid. They used to run a SF / Horror movie every Friday night @ 10:30 under the program banner "Weird". I never missed a Friday, though I typically watched with my hands over my face peeking throught the gaps between my fingers. Those leapin' brains made me afraid to sleep with the back of my neck exposed for months...joe
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