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Whaaaaaaaaaat?
From Variety: Spike Gives Straight-to-Series Order to âRed Marsâ
âSense8â co-creator J. Michael Straczynski will serve as writer, exec producer and showrunner on âRed Mars.â He will exec produce with âGame of Thronesâ co-exec producer Vince Gerardis, who first brought the project to Spike, plus David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross of Skydance Television, which is the studio on the series.
Based on Kim Stanley Robinsonâs Mars Trilogy of novelsâŚ
âŚâRed Marsâ is set to go into production next summer for a January 2017 debut.
Enjoy!
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Since weâre bandying about Constitutional Amendments like party favors, I support one banning all remakes. 21st century, get your own blasted space operas!
Film something new, and 50 people will emerge from the woodwork all claiming that you stole their ideas and demanding money. Remakes are safer.
Plus established franchises are like established stars. If youâre a Hollywood executive and you go with an unknown actress and the movie flops, youâre fired. If you go with an established star and the movie flops, well, who knew? You keep your job.
Sorry.
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Yeah, I get the mechanics of it. I just find it a sad statement on todayâs world. Gotta go, kids on the lawn againâŚ
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Iâm guessing an all out action movie and very little story, I bet the concept meetings are a Fury Road love fest.
Just as the things that made Star Trek special were not the intellectual property objects that CBS and Paramount now own, the bits and pieces from which Battlestar Galactica was assembled are freely available for anyone to use:
âancient astronaut hypothesisâ + Ptolemaic Egypt in space + killer robot apocalypse
Anybody can make this show. If you are Universal Studios, you call the show âBattlestar Galactica.â If you are somebody else, the show has a different name. I donât think the audience really cares whether the grizzled air-force-general hero is called Adama or not.
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I dunno⌠I love that sketch.
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Noooooo!
The 2004 BSG reboot was already too much for my âEuropean sensibilitiesâ.
An oppressively religious society (âSo say we all!â), religious fanatics on both sides, military coups, etc. War criminals all around. And all the while, things were presented with that âweâre just being realisticâ attitude. That âthey are not perfect heroes, they are just people like you and meâ attitude. Well sorry, I donât know anyone that evil.
After a couple of seasons I had not only run out of characters I could identify with, I had run out of characters that I did not consider to be the worst kind of bad guys. I do not think I survived past the beginning of season 3. I hope everyone died at the end of the series, but I canât say I really care.
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even as an eleven year old kid, i noticed they reused cylon footage over and over and over. not itâs more amusing than frustrating to me.
Oh, bless your heart, you probably believed the X-Files hook, too! âThe Truth is Out Thereâ(and weâre not going to find it)
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The original BSG was quite uneven, but there WERE some good episodes. BSG-1980 was uniformly bad.
If they wanted to expand on a beloved franchise, how about Downbelow Station? Signy Mallory played by Michelle Forbes. Josh Talley played by James Callis. Thatâs practically a BSG reboot right there!
With the success of The Martian and The Expanse, you could easily make a case that hard SF wants to be the next big thing.
After Guardians of the Galaxy, I realized Iâm tired of comic book movies, Iâd love to see more hard SF on screen.
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THE NEEEED doesnât follow your petty logic.
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a GATTACA reboot would be more timely.
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Nah just show it in the cinema again Iâd go watch it.
Indeed there is no shortage of suitable material, for instance
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practically a BSG78 reboot: Fred Saberhagenâs Berserker series
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practically a BSG04 reboot: Alastair Reynoldsâ Revelation Space
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