# Last Starfighter 2: Intergalactic Boogaloo **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701 "2008-03-01T01:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/1 "2008-03-01T01:17:12Z")
[There. Is. No. God.](http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/02/28/the-last-starfighter-is-getting-a-sequel-too/) > [@](#): > > Yesterday it was just a rumor, but today it’s pretty much confirmed - The Last Starfighter is getting a sequel. Like The Lost Boys before it, they’re now revisiting classic 80’s movies and ripping everything good out of them and then turning them into modernized Hollywood piles of crap. Our friends at Cinema Blend have been hard at work uncovering all of the details about this sequel, and it doesn’t sound too good, but who am I to say that this early in the game? One thing is for sure - we’ve officially entered the era of the 80’s revisited in Hollywood. With Transformers turning out to be a huge hit, they’re out finding every last nostalgic 80’s “whatever” and revisiting it again, from G.I. Joe to The Last Starfighter to Akira. To whomever greenlit this, I have only one thing to say: You go to Hell! You go to Hell and you die! ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/2 "2008-03-01T01:26:14Z")
Nah, can’t be done. Robert Preston is dead. Trying to have a “Last Starfighter” movie without Robert Preston as Centauri would be like…like… oh, I don’t know, like remaking “The Music Man” with somebody like Matthew Broderick playing Harold Hill! No one would be crazy enough to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/3 "2008-03-01T01:29:00Z")
I watched the original not more than a week ago. I must say, age has not been kind. The effects are literally cartoons. I do still say “We die” quite frequently. And “Death Blossom” was my online gamer ID for a long time. I wonder if the sequel will have Zur. He did escape, after all. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/4 "2008-03-01T01:31:33Z")
Not to be too mean, but Lance Guest isn’t lookin’ too hot nowadays, either… ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/5 "2008-03-01T01:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Mrs. Cake] Nah, can’t be done. Robert Preston is dead. Trying to have a “Last Starfighter” movie without Robert Preston as Centauri would be like…like… oh, I don’t know, like remaking “The Music Man” with somebody like Matthew Broderick playing Harold Hill! No one would be crazy enough to do that. [/QUOTE] Interestingly enough, the actor originally picked to play Harold Hill in the film adapation turned the role down because he’d seen the stage version with Robert Preston and felt that the role rightly belonged to Robert Preston. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/6 "2008-03-01T02:31:39Z")
I find it hard to believe that Morton DeCosta – who directed Preston on Broadway – would have considered anyone else. From the IMDB, it appears that it was Meredith Willson who refused to allow the filming without Preston, not any actor (the IMDB mentions Sinatra) turning it down. The story you’re probably thinking of was **My Fair Lady** , where Cary Grant was approached for Henry Higgins and he turned it down and said he wouldn’t even go see the movie unless Rex Harrison was in it. Getting back to the OP, **The Last Starfighter** holds up pretty well. A bit slow in the beginning, but once Centauri shows up, it’s a good one. Also props for Dan O’Herlihy, whose Grig gets all the best lines. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/7 "2008-03-01T02:36:23Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Like The Lost Boys before it, they’re now revisiting classic 80’s movies… [/QUOTE] Exactly how low is someone’s quality dial turned down to call “The Last Starfighter” a _classic movie_? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/8 "2008-03-01T03:28:23Z")
I made up a point-by-point list of plot matches to _Star Wars_ not long after seeing _Last Starfighter_ back in whatever the hell year it was: [ul][li]Kid feels stuck in dead-end life[/li][li]Wizened stranger tells Kid about mysterious power[/li][li]Wizened stranger dies[/li][li]Kid hits mega-spacecraft in one vulnerable spot[/li][li]Main bad guy escapes[/li][li]Wizened stranger ain’t completely dead after all[/ul][/li] In the sequel, will Alex and Maggie be revealed as brother and sister? Interestingly, one of the assassins was played by Marc Alaimo, who would go on to play about eight billion _Star Trek_ characters, edged only slightly by Jeffrey Combs. Wil Wheaton also had a minor role. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/9 "2008-03-01T03:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] I find it hard to believe that Morton DeCosta – who directed Preston on Broadway – would have considered anyone else. From the IMDB, it appears that it was Meredith Willson who refused to allow the filming without Preston, not any actor (the IMDB mentions Sinatra) turning it down. The story you’re probably thinking of was **My Fair Lady** , where Cary Grant was approached for Henry Higgins and he turned it down and said he wouldn’t even go see the movie unless Rex Harrison was in it. [/QUOTE] Could be. I’m going off of rather decrepid memories here, and I’ve never been a fan of musicals. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/10 "2008-03-01T03:40:15Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Exactly how low is someone’s quality dial turned down to call “The Last Starfighter” a _classic movie_? [/QUOTE] Does a movie have to be high art to be classic? Sure, it’s schlocky, but I know I – as a kid of the 80s with an overactive imagination who was able to enjoy video arcades in their prime before the home console market drove them into a niche business _gasp, pant_ – remember Last Starfighter quite fondly, and I don’t think I’m alone in that, either. You should _see_ what gets put on the Turner Classic Movies channel these days, really. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/11 "2008-03-01T03:41:03Z")
This is the first re-make I’ve ever heard of that really truly just made go, “Dude…just no. No.” I don’t think I’d even want to watch the original since I haven’t seen it since I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/12 "2008-03-01T03:42:14Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Exactly how low is someone’s quality dial turned down to call “The Last Starfighter” a _classic movie_? [/QUOTE] Classic 80’s Movie. Captured the era’s Zeitgeist, ya know? And stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/13 "2008-03-01T04:00:46Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] This is the first re-make I’ve ever heard of that really truly just made go, “Dude…just no. No.” I don’t think I’d even want to watch the original since I haven’t seen it since I was a kid. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but it’s _not_ a remake (which would make some sense), but a **sequel** (which makes no sense). ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/14 "2008-03-01T04:32:22Z")
**Tuckerfan** , were you aware that they did a _The Last Starfighter: The Musical_? ETA: (steps back, to be outside the splatterzone, should this be new information…) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/15 "2008-03-01T04:41:04Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] **Tuckerfan** , were you aware that they did a _The Last Starfighter: The Musical_? ETA: (steps back, to be outside the splatterzone, should this be new information…) [/QUOTE] It took me years of hard drinking to erase that from my memory. My insurance company will be billing you for the cost of the liver transplant your remindiung me of it is going to necessitate. ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/16 "2008-03-01T05:25:06Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] In the sequel, will Alex and Maggie be revealed as brother and sister? [/QUOTE] The Kodan Armada Strikes Back? ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/17 "2008-03-01T05:43:47Z")
It’s April 1st, right? Right? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/18 "2008-03-01T06:38:55Z")
Xur kills all of the people involved with making the sequel. The grateful citizens of the universe ask him to become King of Everything, ironically giving him the power he had always craved. The reign of Xur the First is marked by a remarkable absence of crappy movies. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/19 "2008-03-01T13:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] I made up a point-by-point list of plot matches to _Star Wars_ not long after seeing _Last Starfighter_ back in whatever the hell year it was: … [/QUOTE] Maybe you should compile a long list of such similar tales. Maybe give it an interesting title like “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701/20 "2008-03-01T15:07:19Z")
Returning to the original article Tuckerfan quoted… Akira? What the hell? Man, I’m glad I live under a rock when it comes to pop culture… I’m sure there are a ton of other movies in the pipeline that would make me scratch my head. …Akira? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-starfighter-2-intergalactic-boogaloo/439701.md?page=2)