I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
The neverending story has not lived up to its name
Nice try, Hollywood.
Maybe EARTHWORM JIM with new 3D photorealistic graphics.
Babylon 5.
Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.
Akiva shaffer just remade naked gun
Quite true, and I did enjoy it. I’m hopeful that its moderate success review-wise will mean others like it will get made (perhaps scifi parodies or spy film parodies).
I always thought that every 30 years they should reboot back to the future. No connection to the original in terms of production team or cast. The writer and director can’t be old enough to have many memories of the time (Zemeckis and Gale were both 4 in 1955)
Just someone doing their own take on “teenager goes back in time and meets their parents as teenagers”
See how the “past” of 30 years ago compares to the “present” of the previous version
Long term, that could be a really interesting experiment
Also, for anyone who missed it, because I missed it, Back to the Future has continued in animation twice - once official, and again as Rick and Morty.
Yes! And Huey Lewis and the News show up in each film to tell the teenager that their music is too loud.
Do we also remake bttf2, so you can see what people think 30 years into the future is like?
I make no prescriptions beyond the first. No objection if they do, but i think “what will the near future look like” is more common and therefore less interesting
I miss black and white. Also I would like to play something like viva piñata.
The Expanse
The show didn’t cover the Laconia story line, and given the time that passes before the final three books, we’re coming up on the perfect time to get the same cast back to do it.
The last few books are, in my view, the most compelling part of an already superb story.
Isn’t the time skip in the books like 20-30 years? its a while to wait until the actors have aged that much. I’d love to see it though.
Yes, but you certainly don’t need to and wouldn’t want to wait that long. You risk lower interest, retirements, loss of acting ability through death or injury, etc. You can convincingly age adults pretty soon. I think they could start filming now or easily within the next 5 years.
Aging 20-30 years in that future should be portrayed as ~10-15 years of aging in our timeline. People (esp. Inners) are far more long-lived thanks to advanced pharmaceuticals. See the coroner’s bit about life expectancies in S1.
I did enjoy the recent Scrubs reboot.
Good to hear. It had slipped my mind
Its lost a lot of its magic, and the janitor isnt there, but its a lot better than I expected it to be. Its certainly better than the not-scrubs season that shouldn’t have been
Jumper, great film, lots of material already written.
Great point! I enjoyed the movie, but not as much as I would have enjoyed a movie that respected the book, more.
A one or two season mini series would be amazing, and really wouldn’t even cost much to make.
Such a great movie. I saw it in the theatre.
I hope you wore some pants if you wanted to see it in the theatre…
There was this late 90s show called Sliders where this team travels to different parallel Earths with different histories. I would like to see that rebooted.
That show was so good and then the network started fucking with it and ruined it. It’s almost unbelievable how bad it actually got, it’s comical, like they were trying to ruin a show.
I tried so hard to follow it as a kid. It got so confusing. But I loved it.
Best thing about a Sliders reboot is we could have one cameo per classic character, showing us where they finally landed. And then just continue on with the new cast.
I didn’t really understand how TV worked back then, and I just hated that the Sliders crew couldn’t get back home
I would love to see a good reboot of Sliders. That was the show that got me started on the internet. The Scifi channel used to advertise their chatrooms on commercials and I would go to the library to chat with other Scifi channel nerds. Good times.
Sounds like the movie Parallels. Doesn’t have the most satisfying ending in the world but I always thought that it would make a good TV show, sounds like it already existed
Space Ghost
From coast to coast?
Gritty or camp?
Oh yes! I would watch the shit out of a Gritty Space Ghost movie. That’s an opening night theater ticket purchase, for me.
Pretty sure there was a dark comic book series
Oh cool. I’ll look for that. Thank you.
“Moltar!?!?!?!?!?. Get off the internet!”
The problem is not « what to reboot » it is How to reboot.
Just turn it off and on again.
