This poser would beg for that role:
Posted on 05/30/2013 12:43:52 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Ok I'll start: I would like to see a re-make of the TV Series "Emergency".
“Firefly. I would cast Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Stait, Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, Summer Glau and I would keep Alan Tudyk and Ron Glass around for flashback characters.”
Amen.
George plays a man who is immune to all known viruses and diseases, and is being chased by a billionaire who wants his blood as a serum.
The show was pretty much a remake of The Fugitive, but replaces murder as the motive causing the hero to be chased from town to town.
-PJ
Couldn’t have put it better myself. Any remake will be filled with PC characters and plot lines.
I can think of quite a few shows I’d like to see rebooted.
The only show I’ve seen that I’ve enjoyed as a remake is “Warehouse 13”. Even then, a queer had to be thrown into the mix.
Oh, I agree that some remakes are superior. But as you say, those remakes were done long ago. I've seen the version of The Maltese Falcon with Ricardo Cortez - not good at all compared with Bogie's. Other great remakes include The Dawn Patrol (Flynn version), Ben-Hur (Heston version).
I didn’t see it as a dream. I saw it as another reality (or layer of insanity) he’d “navigated” to. He’d been bouncing around between the ones where only one lived, and found the one where they both did, only you have to figure something bad was at the core of that one too.
All in the Family with “Al Bundy” (Ed O’Neill) as Archie Bunker. Why? With Obama as in the White House the lines would write themselves.
I wouldn’t mind a remake of the 1976 movie Midway. The original was badly edited. For example minute you would see Charlton Heston in the cockpit diving on a Japanese carrier in a SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber and then the next shot it his plane being a TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber. The movie was plagued with mistakes like that throughout the whole movie.
I never watched Newhart until the final episode. I was an avid viewer of The Bob Newhart Show.
Newhart was one of the greatest endings in TV sitcom history.
I heard that the DVD of Newhart modified the finale — something about copyright issues with The Bob Newhart Show.
No remakes just bring back the old shows via reruns
About remakes: if you love a series, a remake is always going to be a disappointment. Better to find an old premise and tweak it into a new show -- or find a new home for a deserving show like Southland or (maybe) Arrested Development if the cast is still available.
I meant to say “For instance ‘one’ minute you would see”...
The problem with most modern remakes is that they aren’t really remakes, they’re spoofs (ref, 21 Jump Street movie, or TIm Burton’s Dark Shadows). And the ones that aren’t spoofs are brand leverage, often times they take a story that WASN’T actually intended to be a remake (or based on), but it had some similarities, so they re-arranged some names and used the existing logo hoping to drag in that audience.
Netflix and Amazon Prime and many online venues have many of those old programs.
CBS and The WB have whole groups of their old programs online.
“About remakes: if you love a series, a remake is always going to be a disappointment.”
With one exception. The original Star Trek series was remade and it resonated with massive viewers as well as the subsequent spinoffs and movies. It became a global phenomenon. But why?
Dream endings remind of a teacher I knew in the late 60s. She taught junior high English. When her students did creative writing, she had a rule that they could NOT end their mystery or drama or story by ‘waking up from a dream’.
She figured, if they ‘wrote’ themselves into a corner, they needed to find a way to write themselves out.
Hollywood could use that rule.
Good idea - I watched that show every week when I was a teen, I was always babysitting and remember it well as a good companion.
Who would you want to see in it?
This poser would beg for that role:
To Sir With Love would be an interesting remake....put a nerdy white guy in the ‘ hood
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