If you had the power to remake a sci-fi film, what would it be? by OPPYH

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If you had the power to remake a sci-fi film, what would it be?

POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Monday, August 17, 2009 03:57
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:50 AM

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Fantastic Voyage? Didn't Coolio already remake that?

Mike

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 5:17 AM

REGINAROADIE

Of the various sci-fi classics, the one that I honestly wouldn't mind seeing remade is FORBIDDEN PLANET. If only because in the final film, there's no shot of Morbius sacrificing himself to the Id. You see him run to the melting door, cuts to Leslie Nielsen and Ann Francis reacting, and then he's on the floor. That's it. I always felt that was a massive cop-out for a film with both action and brains. Plus, there are some other stuff in the film that doesn't hold up well.

If they ever do get the FORBIDDEN PLANET remake off the ground, I would not be nearly upset as I was with THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 7:12 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

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Originally posted by PirateCat:
Silent Running with Keanu Reeves and R2D2 as Huey.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

I'd actually kinda hate to see Silent Running remade , because it was so finely done in the first place...

There's a great wiki entry about it , and I think it's probably the best film starring Bruce Dern...

Not a lot of folk are aware that the ship interiors were shot aboard a real carrier :

'...The interiors were filmed aboard the decommissioned WW2 aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge (CV-45), which was docked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, California. Shortly after filming was completed, the carrier was scrapped. The forest environments were originally intended to be filmed in the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but the production budget forced the sequences to be shot in a newly-completed aircraft hangar in Van Nuys, California. Trumbull stated on the commentary accompanying the DVD release that the geodesic domes containing the last forests of Earth's future on the spaceship Valley Forge were also based on the Missouri Botanical Garden Climatron dome.

There are three freighters seen in the film, the Valley Forge, the Berkshire and the Sequoia. Five other ships that carried domes are also named, but do not appear on screen — they are the Yellowstone, Acadia, Blue Ridge, Glacier and Mojave. Each ship features a designation on the hull, which notes the area from which some of the flora and fauna samples were taken. The Valley Forge is listed as "Bahia Honda Subtropical," indicating at least some specimens were taken from this area of the Florida Keys.

The model of the Valley Forge Space Freighter was 26 feet (8 m) long, and took six months to build from a combination of custom castings and the contents of approximately 800 prefabricated model aircraft or tank kits. After filming was completed, American Airlines expressed an interest in sending the model on the tour circuit, but this was not feasible due to the fragile nature of the model (in fact, during filming, pieces of the model kept falling away). The ship was subsequently disassembled after several years sitting in Douglas Trumbull's personal storage facility. Several pieces, including the domes, wound up in the hands of collectors. Several domes survive, including one that now rests in the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington, and another which was sold at auction in 2008.

The three "drones" were played by four double-amputees,[1] an idea inspired by Johnny Eck, a sideshow performer of the early 20th century who had been born without lower limbs.[citation needed] The 20 pound (9 kg) "drone suits" were custom tailored for the different actors. The suits still exist, and are in Douglas Trumbull's personal collection...

...The Starlost television series re-used and expanded on the environmental dome models and some of the feeling of the interiors. The original Battlestar Galactica series used stock footage of the space freighters in several episodes. On that show, they were called "Agro Ships," and were the source of all the food in the rag-tag fleet. Initially there were three of them, but two were destroyed by the Cylons. In the current incarnation of Galactica, there is a comparable "Botanical Cruiser" located in the fleet. Like many ships designed for the new show, the Botanical Cruiser was clearly inspired by the earlier design.

Joel Hodgson has claimed that the film influenced the premise of Mystery Science Theater 3000.[4] John Hodgman's compendium of fictional trivia makes several references to Dern's acting in The Areas of My Expertise. Doug Naylor, Rob Grant and Ed Bye cite Silent Running as an inspiration for the British science fiction-comedy television series of the 1980s and 1990s, Red Dwarf. The "oxygen garden" in the 2007 science fiction film Sunshine was inspired by the forest domes in Silent Running.[5]

Carbon Based Lifeforms have named a song on their 2003 album "Hydroponic Garden" after the movie; on their 2006 album "World Of Sleepers" there is a song called "Photosynthesis" which features a sample from the movie ("What about the forests?!").

WALL-E Director Andrew Stanton said he was influenced by this film.[6]'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:14 PM

KWICKO

If you like Silent Running, you should poke around on this site a bit:

http://www.lunadude.com/pet_proj/valley_forge/index.html

Pretty good stuff there.

Oh, and Trumbull said that Universal wanted to explore "experimental" movies in the wake of the success of Easy Rider, so they greenlit him - and gave him a budget of ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

How crazy is that?

I'd still like to see the movie remade, but only if they could address a couple of the niggling issues of the original, like how did the domes have gravity, etc. And update some of the controls and robotics a bit (not the drones so much as things like the robot-arm pool playing machine and things like that). I did love the commercialization aspects of it - the American Airlines and Coca-Cola logos on the freight containers, and things like that - because they felt more "real". I liked those aspects of 2001 as well (the Pan-Am shuttle, for instance).

The biggest shame about Silent Running, really, is that it never got a wider audience. It definitely deserved one, and I think it could have a real impact now. Heck, it impacted George Lucas enough that he talked to Trumbull while getting ready to do Star Wars, and he used John Dykstra for that movie based on his work on Silent Running. And it would be kind of nuts to think that R2D2 wasn't heavily influenced by the drones.

By the way, I just watched it again today. :)

Mike

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:25 PM

CHRISISALL

Fantastic Voyage cannot be remade, anyone that thinks so is a moron. Was the Planet Of The Apes remake workin' for any here?

How about doing NEW stuff, like District 9? Or Serenity 2?????

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:29 PM

OPPYH

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Was the Planet Of The Apes remake workin' for any here?

No, The Planet of the Apes reboot didn't resemble the original film in any way. Tim Burton's first epic failure. I F___NG hated that film.
If there were a Planet of the Apes remake(shot for shot) with a competent director and cast, it would be most welcome.

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Sunday, August 16, 2009 12:00 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Fantastic Voyage cannot be remade, anyone that thinks so is a moron.

Well, Roland Emmerich was gonna do it a couple years ago, with Cameron's Lightstorm Ent. producing, but I guess that fell through.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970307.html?categoryid=10&cs=1

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Monday, August 17, 2009 3:57 AM

RIPWASH

I wanna say I'd remake "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." I felt betrayed by that film on so many levels. Mos Def was good as Ford Prefect and I liked Zoe Deschanel, but the rest, especially how they handled Zaphod Beeblebrox was a mess.

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