I’m sure everyone has heard that there is going to be a remake of the classic 1950′s movie Forbidden Planet, arguably the best Sci-Fi of that decade and one of my top 5 pre-Star Wars science fiction movies. Made in a time when the cold war was a very real theat and nuclear power was a big mystery to the average person, the popular Sci-Fi of the day filled the screens with giant ants and clouds of radiation, Special effects of the day were rockets hanging from wires with smoke curling upward. Forbidden Planet was a stark departure from all that and worked as all great science fiction works by looking at the Human equation, quit literally the monsters were our own base fears which never changed no matter how far our or the aliens technology had advanced. The FX still stand up today, who can forget the monster form the id attacking the ship the shields straining to hold it back and our first look at the unseen foe, I once heard that Gene Roddenberry got the idea for Star Trek from this movie, a galant crew traveling the cosmos in their ship from planet to planet on missions to explore and confront the unknown, did I see something that looked a lot like a Transporter on that ship too. J. Michael Straczynski creator of one of the best Sci-Fi’s to ever appear on the small screen Babylon 5, will write the script. Straczynski is focusing more of the plot on telling the story of the first expedition, and that Warner is hoping it turns into a franchise so they’re throwing a decent amount of money at the project, he recently got cornered by SciFiWire and had to give up some details about his proposed Forbidden Planet remake…
“ There’s a little more action, but it’s still a strong character piece, because it’s based on The Tempest and the idea of a father whose daughter is being courted by, in the original play, sailors that are washed up on shore. You need to have that dynamic still in place to respect the original and the source material. So there’s a fair amount of talking, but there’s some really cool action pieces in it as well.”
“ We’ve actually decided to show more of the first ship when it first arrived 20 years earlier to sort of counterpoint what’s happening in the present story. If you’re a fan of the original, as I am, and have always been, I think it’s very faithful to that.”
So why am I concerned here,
- War of the Worlds
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
Were these good remakes of 2 other classic’s in the case of War of the Worlds NO and The Day the Earth Stood Still YES, I actually liked that one Keanu Reeves surprised me and the story showed imagination but kept true to the original, but I really really what’d to see much more GORT on the rampage War of the Worlds showed no imagination and I never did like Tom Cruise. What will Forbidden Planet be like, I’ll let you know
