Forbidden Planet gets the Babylon 5 Treatment October 31, 2008
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Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is hard at work on a remake of the classic SciFi series Forbidden Planet.
Considered how Straczynski totally butchered Babylon 5 with the Lost Tales – I’m not sure this is a good thing. Maybe he’ll make Robbie the Robot into a human or something….
Released in 1956, Planet told the tale of an expedition sent from Earth to check on a colony of scientists on a far-off planet. They find two members, a man who has found alien technology that doubled his intellect, Dr. Morbius, and his daughter, both of whom have managed to survive an unseen monster roaming the planet.
Straczynski’s Star Trek – Boldly Going Where Star Trek Had Gone Before November 7, 2007
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J Michael Straczynski is one the greatest storytellers of this generation…the original run of Babylon 5 is proof positive of that fact.
Turns out in 2004 he sent a proposal to CBS Paramount for a rebooted version of Star Trek that would have been a re- imaginging of the classic series.
Although fan accusations of burn-out and story-repetition from the creative teams may be part of the explanation, and certainly any team may need a time away after nearly sixteen years at the helm, there’s a simpler answer at hand, one that need not paint these accomplished people in any kind of negative light.
The best solution is to go back to the original and start again.
It’s time to re-boot the Star Trek Universe.
Concept
What we propose is not Star Trek: Another Generation, or Star Trek: A New Ship, or even Star Trek: The Search for Plots. In other words, not a copy of a copy, or a distillation of a variation.
We want to re-boot STAR TREK. The original. Pure and simple. The characters, universe and situations that have attracted, and continue to attract, a worldwide audience. Re-set…re-imagined… re-invigorated…
Personally i think the Straczynski proposal is ABSOLUTE MADNESS AND LUNACY. Unlike Battlestar Galactica where the classic series was campy nonsense. Classic Trek while camp was incredibly well written and conceived. Look how well the new HD series shapes up for FRAKS sake!
Check out the full proposal at IESB
oH and filming for Star Trek XI – which doesn’t re-imagine but is a prequel to Classic Trek – starts today!
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