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[fajrdrako]

From fannish5: List 5 old school fandoms that should (or should not) get a big budget movie reboot.

1. The Professionals.
No, I don't want a reboot there - I want the show, just about perfect as it was, to be available again. I want it to be rerun, I want it to appear on the cable channels, I want it to be in the stores in Region 1 DVDs. I want it to be repopularized and revived.

Alternately, if there should be some sort of reboot (and let's forget The New Professionals, shall we?), its ongoing theme should be the hard-boiled romance of Bodie and Doyle. Which is, of course, what it always was, but it should be more in focus this time.


2. Firefly
. Yes, it got its glossy movie version, and I didn't much like the glossy movie version, not compared to the wonderful TV show. It should have had more than 13 episodes and it should have thrived. It's too late for a continuation now, but I mourn its passing.

And they shouldn't try to do it without Wash.

A reboot with other actors, other characters? Unthinkable.


3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Done seriously as spy thrillers.


4. Global Frequency
, to name a show that never got its first run, let alone a second one. Someone should have seen the potential. Michelle Forbes! It could have been brilliant.


5. Space Rangers
. Remember that one? Linda Hunt and a squad of emergency cops on a frontier planet. Made only fifteen years ago, and it looks archaic now, with cliche dialogue ("Let's get out of here!") and shallow, formulaic writing - but it had a certain charm, good characters, and some ideas that deserved better treatment.

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

So you do want to have #3-#5 given a movie reboot?

It seems to me that a series that depends on a specific combination of actors is much more difficult to be given a good movie version -- but the movie of Get Smart was well done, so it could be done.

But I'd rather see movies that build on a TV series' writing style and/or visual style and/or premise -- much more likely to succeed.

I'd love to see the Professionals given a proper DVD release. Right after all the seasons of Lou Grant, and WKRP in Cincinnati (seasons 2 on onwards, with the original music), and Beggars and Choosers.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So you do want to have #3-#5 given a movie reboot?

I think I would rather have a TV series reboot. They're more likely to be good - thinking here of Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. If it were well done, movies too - I think the latest two James Bond movies are an example of a reboot that has worked beautifully.

Obviously no reboot will have the same combination of actors, and it has been my observation that many people who liked the original Battlestar Galactica don't like it or watch it - they can't stand seeing Starbuck as a woman, for example. While I (with no vested interest in the old Starbuck at all) love the show and think the new Starbcuck is wonderful.

By that argument, I should perhaps here be looking at shows I never liked in the first place.

I'd love to see the Professionals given a proper DVD release.

I don't understand why it hasn't happened. She show has so many fans in North America - why not release it?

Beggars and Choosers

What's that?

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Beggars and Choosers: What's that?

A satire on the TV broadcasting industry and Hollywood in general, that was out on HBO a few years ago (and Bravo in Canada). Silly in places, but it had some really inspired slapstick moments (particularly the Unregistered Nurses program, and the paintball/cable episode).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It sounds mad!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*randomly butts into your journal*

OMG Space Rangers! I LOVED that show. It was recently on reruns here (scifi channel I think) and it held up pretty well, over all.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

OMG Space Rangers! I LOVED that show.

I did too. I was watching it again the other day - enjoying it thoroughly once again.

I didn't know they'd ever rerun it. I don't have all the episodes - dare I hope it's on DVD now?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

different sources say different things about the # of episodes made. I could have sworn only 6 were made, but there's a comment up on imdb about 13 being made. And that's all that was showed recently.

It's NOT out on dvd. At least according to tvshowsondvd.com which is usually a very accurate source for region 1 us/canada dvds

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn only 6 were made, but there's a comment up on imdb about 13 being made.

I hvae two friends who, like me, loved the show when it was on. In fact, I started watching because they'd recommended it to me. They only saw six (and taped) six episodes. So if more were made - what happened to them?

As for being out on DVD - look at this (http://www.cartoon-avenue.net/product_info.php?products_id=204).

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

huh, interesting, maybe it's not showing up at tvshowsondvd because it's regionless? (Is that a word?- plays on any dvd player, I mean)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know it was possible to make regionless DVDs.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I didn't either. I knew multi-region dvd players existed, but not dvds themselves. It's a little suspicious, frankly

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - seems strange!

A few years back, when looking for Space Rangers DVDs, I found them on sale from Australia on eBay - playable in region 4. Not much good to me, but worth noting.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

I was so, so, so very sad about the Avengers movie from the late 90s, with Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes. It was appalling to the little girl inside me that wanted to grow up to be just like Emma Peel, difficult to watch. That said, for some odd reason, even though it wasn't really very good, I loved The New Avengers, with Joanna Lumley as Purdey and Patrick MacNee as THE ORIGINAL JOHN STEED! And some poor guy who was supposed to be a combo of eye-candy and the guy who gets to beat people up, but who gave a damn about him because we had STEED! YES!

It's been years since I've seen The Professionals, I would definitely purchase a DVD set if it weren't ridiculously expensive. And I have no idea why nobody has brought back an updated version of Muncle or Guncle. They'd definitely have to do what was done for BSG and make it more serious/less campy to update it, but leave in the wit and insouciance.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I adore Ralph Fiennes, but that movie was so disappointing... And he was so very much not John Steed. They didn't have the spirit of the original at all.

I liked The New Avengers, too. I even liked the Other Guy - Gambit, right? Good name.

The Professionals is both appallingly expensive and not sold in North America. I object.

I think the U.N.C.L.E. premise has a lot of potential. I'd love to see them use it again.