With the Space Shuttle programme over and the space race finished will TV ignore the classic space adventure? We used to enjoy Star Trek, Space 1999, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Lexx and Red Dwarf to name but a few.We still have some Sci-Fi in the UK - Dr.Who and Torchwood spring to mind - but is TV space adventure dead?
There's still the Clone Wars CG cartoon series, but yes I think the space opera genre has now gone for a while. I'm sure it will come back in a few years again. After a billion episodes of the various Star Trek incarnations continually in rerun on some channel somewhere I think the general public are bored with it.
ReplyDeleteGerry Anderson was hoping to make a new series of Thunderbirds in CG but it's gone very quite. George Lucas was planning a live action Star Wars TV series (please George no CG overload this time) but that's on hold. Apparently he's waiting for the technology to make the TV show to come down to affordable prices. Sounds like he's talking CG costs. Nooooo!
Meanwhile for any US Starblazers fans who read this, over in Japan they're remaking the anime TV series Space Battleship Yamato for release in 2012. Seems the live-action move they made last Christmas was very popular and has now spawned a new version of the 70s anime TV show.
On the film front there may be the long delayed UFO film in 2013 based on Gerry's TV series. Sam Raimi's EDF (Earth Defence Force) is in production hell. And whatever happened to the proposed Major Matt Mason film that Tom Hanks was going to produce?
Oh, and I forgot the the SyFy channel's nu_Galactica prequel 'Blood and Chrome' that comes out later this year. A TV movie/pilot that might make it to series.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that Yorkie. There's more going on than I thought. My Freeview package is a bot restrictive I can tell. I read some news about the UFO film on Fanderson's site. I wonder who they'll get to play Straker? I think Daniel Craig would be good - cosmicly grumpy - but his 007 duties won't allow it I'm sure! Hey maybe SHADO had 00 status too? They were all on the same side. the Majot Matt movie has gone quiet hasn't it. I was hoping to have got some new boxed toys by now! Super 8 looks promising and is out soon. I thought it might be a sequel to Abram's Cloverfield but it sounds like Speilberg has made ET for grown ups. The term Super 8 reminds me completely of home movies back in the Sixties and gives me a warm feeling of a simpler time [aka childhood!]. It's a neat bookend to Cloverfield and it's Video Camera antics. Just hope Super 8 hasn't got the same shakes though, it drove me wild!
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