Topic: What shows/movies would you actually like to get rebooted?

[MisterMarc]

Manimal Intro

YES!

Also, Automan...just cuz it's funny.

[Halleyscomet/Wakefield]

Manimal Intro

YES!

Also, Automan...just cuz it's funny.

An Internet enabled Automan has potential as a kickass reboot.

Alternately, deliberately set the series in the 1990's as a retro program. You could then watch the characters grow and Automan get more powerful as the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive. There would of course need to be other AIs for him to face who would also be growing more powerful over time.

[mindme]

Space Above and Beyond would be cool. But it might be too BSG these days.

Perhaps, but that's not necessarily a bad thing if they make it their own.

I always thought BSG copied the dark gritty scifi realism from Space above and beyond.

I have no doubts you're right. Although, arguably grit was introduced by star wars and blade runner.

BSG made it hard for me to go back and watch Babylon 5. Their ship interiors look way too much like sound stages.

[MisterMarc]

Manimal Intro

YES!

Also, Automan...just cuz it's funny.

An Internet enabled Automan has potential as a kickass reboot.

Alternately, deliberately set the series in the 1990's as a retro program. You could then watch the characters grow and Automan get more powerful as the Internet becomes increasingly pervasive. There would of course need to be other AIs for him to face who would also be growing more powerful over time.

Or worse, he would have to battle Sasquatch in the remote wilds of Alaska, with no cell reception!

[Ajzzz]

Why would anybody reboot The Wire or Firefly when they were done so well the first time? Those projects would be doomed to fail. I'd really like a spin-off of Firefly, you could get away with only having Nathan Fillion back as Mal, and his ship. Could Kickstarter fund a TV show?

After my experience with BSG I couldn't see reboots as a good thing, all the others were mediocre at best (V, Bionic Woman etc... etc...), but Upstairs, Downstairs is really good (I started watching because I'm a fan of Claire Foy and Keeley Hawes).

With all the vampire shows around it might not be the time but Kindred: The Embraced could have a reboot, they did a lot of things right and it was only cancelled because the lead actor was involved in an accident from what I read. A lot of the flaws were due to the trends in television of the time (1996), so those could be replaced by the flaws that are in the trends of today.

Max Headroom could be rebooted, television needs more dystopian cyberpunk, although after Dark Angel and Dollhouse it would probably be a hard sell to get it made.

[PANTS!]

I liked Kindred - It was a "totally Spelling joint" though, with all the (much) good and ill he brings to a project.  (IE it was super soapy.)  But it took some of the great aspects of the game, culled away the goofy stuff, and turned it into a political drama as well as a Romeo Julliet soap.  Wish it would have had legs.

[Eternally Learning]

Does anyone remember Centurions?

Centurions Intro

This would take some work to reimagine, but I really think there's some neat material here to work with.  Hell, if they can adapt the cheese that was GI Joe into an action flick, they could do it to this.

[Ravenhull]

The old World of Darkness had a lot of potential that Spelling's Vampire 90210 missed in trying to be more mainstream TV. It didn't have to be an exact lifting from the RPG pages, but could have been a lot closer, which might have drawn a bigger audience for it being different.

[superdave]

I would love a new science fiction show that does go overboard with the melodrama.  Melodrama is why I couldn't get into BSG or Fringe.  I want my science fiction filled with cool future tech and technobabble, not feelings.

[Vincegamer]

Think they could reboot Knight Rider?

I think a new version of Forever Knight could do well with the current infatuation with vampires.

[David E.]

"The Wire" would top my list.

The world could always do with more "Star Trek."

"The Beverly Hillbillies," not as a repeat of the same premise but as a sort of "next generation" thing. Jethro(Max Baer Jr. is still around) has become head of the family, and has grown into quite a savvy oil man. His two grandkids are spoiled rich brats, along the lines of Paris Hilton. They're constantly getting into trouble. Finally, gramps sends them back to the hills to learn something about life.

Have you watched Swamp Billionaires or Duck Dinasty?

I see clips of it almost every week on The Soup.   

[MisterMarc]

The old World of Darkness had a lot of potential that Spelling's Vampire 90210 missed in trying to be more mainstream TV. It didn't have to be an exact lifting from the RPG pages, but could have been a lot closer, which might have drawn a bigger audience for it being different.

Agreed. With all the vampire madness right now, this property is RIPE with possibility. The concept of the Masquerade, clan politics, the pro-human Camarilla and anti-human Sabbat, is enough for one or two seasons alone! The political structure of Vampire society in WoD gives you basically The Sopranos but with vampires. Plus the depth of the clans types, and powers gives you a lot of room to play with self-awareness of the pretension of vampire stories.

If that's not enough for you, you can start bringing in Werewolves and Mages to round out the world, and shit can get really interesting. A really good writer could do some very interesting stuff with that world.

[Eternally Learning]

Think they could reboot Knight Rider?

They tried, and not all that long ago either.  It blew.

[Neon Genesis]

To add some movies to the list, I know this might be sacriligeous to some, but I would love to see a remake of The Wizard of Oz that stayed more accurate to the original novel.  I enjoyed the Judy Garland film, but they overly-santized the movie and cut out all the darker elements from the book, like the Tinman's horrifying and bloody backstory.  I also liked how in the original book, Dorothy was a lot more resourceful and independent than her damsel in distress crybaby counterpart in the 1939 film and the whole "we have to make this all a dream because Americans hate fantasy" was such a cop-out ending whereas in the novels, Oz was a real place Dorothy returned to many times and had more adventures.  I'd love to see the later Oz novels adapted into movies since Hollywood likes to pretend that they don't exist and that the Judy Garland universe is all there is to Oz.  I'd also love to see a TV series remake of Harry Potter.  I thought the movies were done well enough considering the limitations of compressing the longer later books into a 2 hour movie but I think there were enough interesting stories in the novels that got cut out of the movies that it could work in a TV series remake if it was done with the same kind of high quality production values as Game of Thrones was.  Ditto for a Lord of The Rings TV series. 

Can we include anime in this list?  If we can, I'd also love to see an anime remake of Sailor Moon that stayed closer to the manga with modern day animation quality.  As much as I enjoyed the live-action Sailor Moon remake, the special effects were a bit cheesy and the plot ended up deviating from the manga even moreso than the anime version did.  I'd love to see an anime remake of Sailor Moon that followed the manga word-for-word like the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood remake.  The battles in the manga are so much more epic than the anime and the Sailor Soldiers are so much more interesting in their manga counterparts and I'd just love to see the Sailor Moon franchise revived again.  I'd also would love to see an anime reboot of Battle Angel Alita.  I loved the concept and universe of the OVAs, but a 3-part OVA that basically amounted to a commercial for the manga just wasn't enough to satisfy me.

[Eternally Learning]

I'm down with a faithful take on The Wizard of Oz.  They done other versions but they've all been some sort of odd take on the movie rather than the book.  Have you ever seen Return to Oz which is an adaptation of two of Baum's sequel books and has the darker tone intact? 

As for anime, feel free to put whatever you like in the thread.  Never was much of a Sailor Moon fan, but it could work.