I plan to see it just so I can compare it to the original series. Been viewing my DVDs of Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5.
Then I wondered how a crossover between those two tv series might go. So I started to write this fic:
I’ll add a second chapter after my muse inspires me.
What new Thunderbirds movie? 
More info, please?
Click here for information on it at the Internet Movie Database’s site.
Yeah, I’ll see it, although I have no hope that it’s going to be any good. Live-action rather than puppets, for one thing. Directed by that guy from Star Trek with the excessively neatly-trimmed beard, for another. And this wrecks the whole thing for me right here: Rolls-Royce wouldn’t let them use the marque’s name in the film, so Lady Penelope’s limo is now a Ford. Sheesh.
Nevertheless, Thunderbirds has long been one of my favorite guilty pleasures, so I’ll catch the new film and no doubt complain bitterly forever after about various arcane things they got wrong, while the few friends I have left roll their eyes till they pop out of their sockets.
Please please tell me they’re not gonna “update” the Thunderbird machines. I’m almost afraid to investigate more…
Here is the latest on the live action movie version.
It looks like it’s going to be a weird mix of camp adventure, and genuine blockbuster action. The vehicles themselves appear to be almost exactly similar, with only slight changes, including the garish colours.
The actors playing the Tracy brothers are pretty much all unknowns who look as cheesy as their puppet counterparts (though Jeff Tracy the Dad is Bill Paxton, who seems an odd choice). And the sets and costumes seem very retro.
It’s something that will have to strike a very careful balance to work; it could so easily (and probably will) fall too much one way or the other and ruin it. In this case, it may be a bit too faithful to its source.
Indeed they are. But this is actually a good thing, because it allows for a separate class of merchandising licenses that will neither cannibalize nor compete licenses for existing products. (I don’t mind a New Coke Thunderbird 2 so long as the Coke Classic Thunderbird 2 remains in production, and a modified design for the live-action movie facilitates this.)
However, while the trailers look interesting, I’m both suspicious and doubtful of Jonathan Frakes’ involvement in the property. His directorial credits reveal a career which is singularly bankrupt in originality.