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So I’m guessing the Max Headroom reboot they announced in 2022 never made it out of the early development phase? Maybe for the best.
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Utilizing Max Headroom seems very similar to operating a puppet. Matt Frewer obviously did “Max”, but all of the ancillary lighting, sound effects, and whatnot, are what really sell it.
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Wasn’t Robert Llewellyn in one of those pilots? Still playing Kryten, but it may have been a very bad dream.
ETA: Blimey, so he was…
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Mr Frewer played a bad guy in a coupla episodes of The Librarians, too.
I squee’d, told mom who he is, and she squee’d too.
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Wow… that’s a truly random popup.
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[Paranoimia video]
No surprise that both of those videos are on my For When You’re High as a Kite YouTube playlist. I particularly enjoy the effects on Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver – even having watched the “making of” video it really messes with my mind even when I’m not stoned at the time!
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That Red Dwarf USA is terrible, not a patch on the original
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Really? 29 posts before this one, & none included this?
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… an annoying act of vandalism, by some idiot complaining about “liberals,” that had nothing to do with the movie or the show
Gee why wouldn’t we bring that up again 
Yeah, the US version of Red Dwarf never got past a couple of pilot attempts.
Another odd place Frewer popped up was Zach Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake. He does a very non-comedic cameo as a painfully dying man who says goodbye to his daughter, sends her away, reanimates as a zombie and gets blasted.
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It’s quite remarkable in its own, special way - they managed to remove everything that was even remotely funny from the original.
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MAX fooled me for such a long time, I was so naive to believe it a CGI. But when I discovered that Matt Frewer was him, I was disappointed. Paranoimia
Even the lines that they copied they managed to completely screw up the delivery.
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They used plenty of real CGI too, although for stuff we’d probably not even think twice about today. The tv show was an early adopter of using Amiga computers (pre Video Toaster era) for all the on screen titling effects that appear in Edison Carter’s camera feed, video calls between the characters, etc. It allowed them the freedom to have animated titles, blinking, crawls, etc that otherwise would have been too slow to produce with a traditional big expensive titling machine of the day on a tv show production schedule. The main advantage was they could have many people working on the different sequences in parallel as the Amiga computers were inexpensive enough that they could have multiples of them, and do it all in house instead of sending it out to an effects production company.
(For the original movie they used a PC-compatible with a primitive genlock card in it, but it couldn’t do animated effects in real time, only static output.)
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