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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: J3Vr6 on April 06, 2004, 08:48:14 am
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http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Television&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270355&obj_id=41212
Have fun...
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"THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN: When a upscale banker suffers a traumatic head injury, part of his brain is replaced with that of a street hustler. The movie will be written, directed and stars EVIL DEAD's Bruce Campbell. Shooting begins this spring. "
"MONSTER SMASH: A reality series where actors are placed under heavy makeup to look like monsters, then they fight each other to see which "monster" wins. Stan Winston is one of the team developing the project."
"STRANDED: Another reality series where two groups of contestants are dumped in a remote, harsh environment that doubles for an alien planet. Challenges will confront the contestants as they compete for a cash prize."
"MOTEL MAN: This series follows a police detective that happens upon seemingly everyday objects that have strange powers, such as a comb that can stop time or a pencil that creates 1961 pennies from thin air when tapped. What are these objects, where do their powers come from, and why are there dangerous and mysterious groups willing to kill to own them?"
"AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD: From HELLBOY creator Mike Mignola comes an ongoing half-hour animated comedy about a U.S. government robot that screws his head on to a variety of bodies to fight bad guys. Bryan Fuller (DEAD LIKE ME) will write the pilot and Jason Netter will supervise the animation."
will the hilarity never cese?
on the otherside
"Yesterday The Sci Fi Channel unveiled its upcoming slate of new programming, featuring a lineup of new ongoing series, mini-series, movies and specials that will carry the network through 2004 and into 2005. Amongst the shows that will air will be the four-hour FARSCAPE: PEACEKEEPER WAR mini "
:nod:
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"RINGWORLD: Based on Larry Niven's RINGWORLD series of novels, a four-hour mini-series is in development. In the future four explorers crash on an artificial structure in deep space, a mammoth ring that circles a distant star. Exploring this strange place, the humans discover that there is life here and secrets that could change the universe forever."
that's what halo is suposedly based upon
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Laughs at the irony of Sci-fi who cancelled Farscape now desperately pimping it as their biggest show. What a bunch of f***ing idiots they were to cancel it in the first place.
As for Ringworld I can't wait to see that. Although I will have to kill the first person who calls it a Halo rip off. :rolleyes:
Having read the book the mini-series could be really good. Kind of prefer Protector though.
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Melikes Andromeda, although I never got to see much of the originals. They should replay those, as well as the new ones, methinks.
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UT: SciFi did take on Andromeda and are planning on doing their typical reruns and new ones
if you really want I will be acquiring the entire series soon
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I just can't see Ringworld being good.
History of the Devil looks kind of cool, as does Motel Man and maybe Witchhunter Robin (if they don't turn it into something like Black Scorpion).
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Black Scorpion sucked because they got nothing but porn actors and retiree's to act in it. It's one saving grace was that one episode with Frank Gorshin(the original Riddler).
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See that's the problem, you can't get porn actors, you get porn stars.
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Originally posted by mikhael
I just can't see Ringworld being good.
I've been told they did a fair job with Dune so I'll wait and see. If they were making a film I'd be more sceptical but with a mini-series they have an extra hour or two to put in the needed extra detail.
Could go either way really.
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Dune was good, it didn't have the epic feel that DDL's version did, but it was on the whole a better production.
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Originally posted by Kazan
UT: SciFi did take on Andromeda and are planning on doing their typical reruns and new ones
I know they are, but I was saying they should replay the old ones as well, possibly in a different time slot :) (I already have my PVR set up to record the new ones :D)
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Originally posted by karajorma
I've been told they did a fair job with Dune so I'll wait and see. If they were making a film I'd be more sceptical but with a mini-series they have an extra hour or two to put in the needed extra detail.
Could go either way really.
In the case of Dune they started with a rich detailed universe and a rich detailed story.
Ringworld has the rich detailed universe, but not the rich detailed story. Larry Niven creates awesome backdrops, but the man can't write a story, in my opinion. The Known Space books are fluffy and fun, but the stories are just too weak to stand up to their own backdrop (Protector might be the exception to this). Given that, unless they get a really good writer, there's just no way they're going to be able to put together a story set in Known Space--and more importantly on the Ringworld itself--and make it strong enough to stand up to the weight of all that KS background.
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I agree that it's going to be a bit hard to adapt, but if done right it'll be great.
Woohoo! Pierson's Puppeteer time! :D
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Originally posted by mikhael
I just can't see Ringworld being good.
History of the Devil looks kind of cool, as does Motel Man and maybe Witchhunter Robin (if they don't turn it into something like Black Scorpion).
I saw the anime for Witchhunter Robin. Rather odd little show. I believe it's on Cartoon Network at about midnight.