DISQUS

Scotty Dub · 1 year ago

I loved this as a kid when it was originally on. I'd be curious to see what they could do with a movie version. I'd like to think it would be good. Time will tell.

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R.A. Porter · 1 year ago

But...without the Beastmaster? Or Michael Ironside's gravelly voice?

Yah, I too would be thrilled to see this come back to TV or the big screen.

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Steve McGrath · 1 year ago

I general, I'm against remakes. But in this case(Sci-Fi), I don't mind at all because the technology is now better than the cheesy special effects of the show. And with BG being a successful remake, V can also be good if they make it darker like BG.

I remember when Diana(alien scientist) would swallow a live rat. That got a lot of publicity for the mini-series back then. And yes, human were on the menu too. ;)

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Mike · 1 year ago

Steve, good point about Battlestar Galactica...if they could remake it in that kind of way, this seems like an intriguing project.

I watched a few episodes of V back in the day, but never really got into it. So I'd definitely check this out.

Kory · 1 year ago

I would be up to checking it out as I loved this show when I was a kid.

Robert · 1 year ago

The FX were pretty good for the time. I still remember the swish of the lasers. :) Dunno about a remake (kinda tired of all the remakes) but maybe an extension. I seem to recall a subplot involving sending a call for help to the lizard people's enemies. That would at least provide a way to move forward instead of just re-imagine something somebody already did.

Steven · 1 year ago

Loved it as a kid and hope this comes to pass. If I remember correctly, wasn't a pre-Nightmare on Elm Street Robert Englund in V as well?

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Cap'n Schwartz · 1 year ago

Well Battlestar wasnt a remake, it was a reimagining...which seems to be the trend AKA The New Star Trek movie as well. Which means they take the premise and do whatever they want with it disregarding any history of a series or movie that you already know.
I loved this series when it came out, a movie version could be awesome for sure, I would go see it!!

Mike · 1 year ago

This might be a reimagining too :)

Robert · 1 year ago

Robert Englund played the kinda dumb but gentle alien who became a traitor because he thought the humans were cute and cuddly (Love Humans, Don't Eat Them) and because they didn't make fun of him quite as much as his fellow aliens, who of course knew him much better.

Cap'n Schwartz · 1 year ago

Wonder if they would give some kind of cameos to some of the originals...could be intersting.. just as Apollo on Battlestar is Zerrick (sp?)

Jason · 1 year ago

Do we really need a cameo of Robert Englund?

Cap'n Schwartz · 1 year ago

Sure, why not, he could play a character called Freddy... you never know, it could happen..

Ana · 1 year ago

I never saw the original mini-series, actually, I've never heard of it. If Jason was nine at the time it came out I was three. BUT it sounds really cool and it'll have an entire new audience of young people...not to say that you all are not young. :)

Jason · 1 year ago

I think Ana is patronizing us.

Mike · 1 year ago

Never heard of it??? Wow...now I feel old.

The Trousered Ape · 1 year ago

I remember that show. It came on Friday nights and I so looked forward to Friday's when it would come on!!!

This should be interesting. One thing that I do know is that stuff I loved as a kid, when I re-watch them now, I just don't get what attracted me to it. The nostalgia just never lives up to reality.

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BIM · 1 year ago

Do I remember seeing it? Is the Pope Catholic?

I watched it and read all of the books based on the series. I still have them.

Mike · 1 year ago

I think my parents watched it, but I have a feeling they wouldn't let me or my brother join them :(

Anyone remember The Martian Chronicles? I have no idea what it was or what it was about. I just have a memory of a scene in it that freaked me out as a kid and still sort of does.

Frank C · 1 year ago

I enjoyed the original mini-series right up until the Deus Ex Machina ending. The follow-up series, well, stank and stank bad.

My guess on a remake would be that they would push the political undertones of the original to the forefront in this one. While the underlying 'good guys' in the original series were communist insurgents in Centeral America the ones in this revision would be radical Islamist terrorists.

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