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In Reply to: "Forbidden Planet" Remake. posted by AudioHead on July 18, 2000 at 07:41:02:
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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