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Straczynski penning Forbidden Planet remake
Martin Anderson
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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The original Forbidden Planet (1956) starred Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielson.
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