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Straczynski penning Forbidden Planet remake

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Babylon 5 and Changeling scribe J. Michael Straczynski commissioned to re-envision the 1956 sci-fi classic....

Published on Oct 31, 2008

Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, who also wrote the screenplay for Clint Eastwood's remake of The Changeling, is to stay in the remodelling shop for a new version of the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet.

The remake has had a long internment in development hell, having been associated with David Twohy, James Cameron, Nelson Gidding and Stirling Silliphant at various junctures.

The original Fred McLeod film was an ingenious remake of Shakespeare's The Tempest, telling the story of a spaceship crew menaced by an unseen force on an alien planet where all but one of the colonists sent there twenty years earlier have perished...

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Re: Straczynski penning Forbidden Planet remake
Posted By HighWiredSith 1 October 31, 2008 08:09:54 PM

Enough with the bloody remakes! A classic Forbidden Planet should be off limits (along with The Earth Stood Still!!!). Are there not enough comic books, video games, and sequeled-to-death franchised to keep these people busy?

Re: Straczynski penning Forbidden Planet remake
Posted By IGPNicki 1 November 2, 2008 07:56:15 AM

Wait a second HighWiredSith, think about it... do we really want more movies based on video games? Seriously?As for another Forbidden Planet. Yeah that's pretty silly, plus a little ironic since they're about to start filming on a new version of The Tempest. Still... it's jms, maybe he'll surprise us. http://www.igp-scifi.com

Re: Straczynski penning Forbidden Planet remake
Posted By kivel 1 November 3, 2008 01:56:28 PM

i agree "FORBIDEN PLANET" and "THE DAT THE EARTH STOOD STILL" should be left alone. You can't improve on the originals. And from what I have seen of the new "DAY" it has so little in common the the ral version it might as well have a new nanme.

Re: Straczynski penning Forbidden Planet remake
Posted By kivel 1 November 3, 2008 01:57:55 PM

sorry about the misspllings my hands shake so much any more it's impossible to type.
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Forbidden Planet (1956)

The original Forbidden Planet (1956) starred Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielson.

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