I always thought that it would be interesting to do a Star Trek series about a starship trapped at the other end of the galaxy. Too bad they never did. It could show the progressively worse and worse privations and how they compensated for them, how they dealt with bizarre alien species unlike anything Trek has ever shown, and, since the ship would be completely isolated, the events of each episode would have a direct impact on all future episodes, which would be maintained by superior continuity (no “reset button” would be plausible of course!)
Amen. Could you imagine if they tried to make a sequel to The Blues Brothers? Sweet lord, what a mess that would be.
I’ve not seen it. Manhunter’s Hannibal, Brian Cox was easily as good as Anthony Hopkins, and Manhunter a great adaptation of the novel.
That’s. Because. It. Doesn’t. Exist.
:rolleyes:
I mostly concur. Lecter’s role was too insignificant to redeem the remake. Manhunter shat all over the ending too, though.
That’s almost as far fetched as thinking you’d need more than one Exorcist
While all these non-sequels are worth mentioning, I’d like to say that I’m glad no one’s tried to make a Starship Troopers movie, set to modern sensibilities, and ignoring much of the political underpinings of the book.
I’m not sure that the book could be faithfully transferred to the large screen, anyways, but at least there’s been no one making a movie that used the title then made a huge social commentary about fascism.
Don’t get me started on how I imagine Hollywood would deal with I, Robot either.
I’m glad that when Newman and Redford decided not to sign on, the studios wisely decided to abandon their sequel plans for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. Imagine if they had tried to recast the characters with some new second rate actors like William Katt or Jackie Gleason.
Airplane! deserved to be sequel-less, since Abrams, Zucker et al passed on the project.
Had there been a sequel to the Blues Brothers, it could have been almost saved by a rendition of “How Blue Can You Get?” by a band consisting of Jeffery Baxter, Eric Clapton, Clarence Clemons, Jack de Johnette, Bo Diddly, John Faddis, Isaac Hayes, Dr. John, Tommy MacDonell, Charlie Musselwhite, Billy Preston, Lou Rawls, Joshua Redman, Koko Taylor, Travis Tritt, Jimmie Vaughan, Grover Washington Jr, Wylie Weeks and Steve Winwood
Remind me.
In the novel Red Dragon,
Lecter sends Dollarhyde Grahams’s address; Dollarhyde attacks while they are fishing, is just about to kill Graham. The love interest hits Dollarhyde with a cast and some nasty barbs on the lure. He chases her into the house, she blows him away with the Bulldog revolver and some nasty ammo. He says, “Mama” and dies.
In the movie…
Slight hijack: I take your point, except that there is no way Jackie Gleason was a “second rate” actor. Go watch The Hustler if you don’t believe me. He may have been over the hill and in need of a paycheck, but he was an excellent actor.
I always get confused about the Batman movies, myself. I think three of them were made, followed by a total drought for a few years before another one starred Christian Bale. Some of my friends, however, insist that there was only one, or maybe two. And some of my very strange friends indeed think that there was a related movie starring Catwoman. Those last guys are probably off their rockers, though.
I just wanted to echo this. One of the best American television cartoons ever.
I’ve always wondered why the Star Trek franchise has never used the phrase “Final Frontier” in the title of any of their films. However, I’m glad they have resisted the temptation.
Since, Roddenberry firmly believed that humans would have abandoned religious beliefs by time of TOS I’m very glad there was never a movie that’s pivotal villain was a being who pretended to be God. I’m so glad some variation of the phrase “Why does God need a starship?” has never been uttered by William Shatner.
I would like to understand why the Star Trek films go from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, without using Star Trek V, but I guess there are some things I am not meant to understand.
The whole Star Trek numbering system never made sense to me. Why, for example, was there no Star Trek: The Motion Picture ? Instead the series starts with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.
Dammit, Reep, you beat me to it. I too wonder about that weird numbering thing.
And I’m sure glad they never did some sort of prequel series either. I mean, that would have sucked. They really needed to stop after Voyager, which I liked but admit got pretty weak here and there.
It is rumored that some of the Historical Documentation has been censored lest we know too much about the future.
What ‘second’ movie? I tell you it did NOT happen! There were no physics bloopers, cute sidekicks or dumb blondes. It did not happen!
I just thank the creator that no one picked up on the idea to make a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie. We have the books, the radio play, and the TV series that’s enough. I’m just so afraid that a movie would be subject to bad, or at least not good, casting for one or two of the major parts. I’m afraid that the screenwriter and director will, for some inexplicable reason, leave out the funny bits, or worse, set up the jokes and leave us waiting for the punchlines - we all know the material too well, you can’t just leave us hanging like that without pissing people off.
So it’s just better that the idea was scrapped.
Although, if someone did come along to try it Stephen Fry would be an excellent voice for the book.