Friday, October 31, 2008
Uh-Oh
SciFi.com: "Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, who also wrote Clint Eastwood's upcoming Changeling, is writing a long-in-the-works update of the SF classic Forbidden Planet for Warner Brothers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joel Silver is producing via Silver Pictures."
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I hate to see another classic "updated." The only upside is that J. Michael Straczynski is the one writing it. He seems sufficiently grounded in SF that maybe he won't screw it up to bad.
If it has to be made that is....
They'll have to work hard to top Anne Francis in a miniskirt.
Uh-oh is right. I'm not too keen on the new "Day the Earth Stood Still" since I consider the first to be a true classic. Wonder if J. Michael knows that the inspiration of "Forbidden Planet" was Shakespeare?
They'd have to go a long way to top Leslie Nielsen's serious acting style.
I'll go see it if they cast Leslie in his current goofball incarnation.
In the '60s, you could be sure that if Nielsen didn't turn up as a guest star on a weekly drama series playing a sober, colorless guy in a suit (politician, detective, doctor, etc), Richard Andersen or Warren Stevens would. Until I looked at IMDB just now, I'd forgotten that all three were in FP.
Maybe Jack Black or Seth Rogen will get Earl Holliman's old role as "Cookie."
Apropos of nothing here, Studs Terkel, RIP.
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