Looks like Denzel will be taking it to the big screen this year.
Posted on 05/30/2013 12:43:52 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
Ok I'll start: I would like to see a re-make of the TV Series "Emergency".
Looks like Denzel will be taking it to the big screen this year.
Never saw the 90’s Untouchables version!
Star Trek didn’t really have remakes. The other series were ‘extensions’ — taking place in a different location or time.
Even the new movies are the young Enterprise crew.
The rest of it is just a title and theme music and "Dan-O".
Amen to that post.
Well it would be nice if the Untouchables were done well. Like the original version!
And a short lived 90s series that wasn’t that bad.
A remake of “Little House On The Prairie” could be good and well done if they stayed true to the books and true to the time period, the history, the actual dress and housing during that time and their daily lives; showing just how hard and tenuous life was back then for those prairie pioneers. IMO, the first year or two of the original series did a fairly good job but then it went all smaltzy and preachy and quite frankly way too PC.
The problem with this (and many of the other shows on the list) is that they'd be too leftist in their outlook. WKRP was a little on the edgy side, but it had characters that tried to balance it out, but these days the old Maude would be as conservative as Archie Bunker.
I remember Ed in the original series. I didn’t know they brought his character back. I know they have Wo Fat but I hardly ever get to see the new series. It’s just not the same as the old one. The original characters ALL looked professional in their suits and much more mature.
“I Dream of Genie” was sexual in a safe way in it’s day, we could redo that with Colin Farrell as the sexy, hairy Genie, and Matt Damon as the Major.
I could see the hilarity ensuing when Genie Farrell would get jealous as the Major would host his parties for his fellow GIs and would be hit on by the cute young airmen.
Not sure I would want to see it re-made. Hope Lange and Edward Mulhair were great together.
The change in characters gave (many) fans the minimum necessary quotient of novelty that kept them watching. The different philosophies of the original series and the sequels gave viewers something to talk about.
Law and Order or CSI did something similar I guess. You create a "parallel universe" that retains what viewers liked about the original but gives them new characters in a new setting with (somewhat) different interpersonal or institutional dynamics. It's great if you can get away with it.
You could trace the genealogy of shows. Say, from Dragnet through Adam-12 to Southland or from The X-Files and Buffy through all the or vampire shows that followed. Domestic and workplace comedies have similar family trees.
You'd be silly, say, to want to see Ackroyd and Hanks redo Webb and Morgan in Dragnet, when with a little creativity you could create something that looks (and maybe is) new.
Yes!
The BBC’s entire rendering of all the Shakespeare plays and the two great BBC series, “I Claudius” and “By the Sword Divided.” The trouble with the three originals is they were done in the old 4:3 format in 480i resolution and mastered for VHS tape, although they are now available on standad DVDs. It would be great to see them redone in HD and made available on standard DVD and BluRay.
Same for both.
Black Sheep is hard to watch sometimes due to the anachronisms but a lot probably couldn’t be helped. CGI and effects being what they are, would go a long way.
Pettycoat Junction!
IIRC it was called “College Bowl”
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