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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.