The Birth of Modern Day SciFi

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Actually, there is a remake of Forbidden Planet in the works. I don't think this is a good thing, myself. Why remake a classic?

Well, I agree a remake in the classic commercial Hollywood style woudl be a mistake. What I had in mind would be something never really done before that I know of. Taking the actual soundtrack and dialoge of the original movie and use that as the audio track for an animated Version full of high tech eye candy. That way you don't dumb down the intelligence of the original with cheesy dialogue and extra plot garbage, but you make it appeal to a new generation of sci-fi viewers. A lot of them today would as likely watch Forbidden Planet as The Man in the Moon.

[Taz-in-Space]

Forbidden Planet? Was that the one that first used Robby the Robot? (You know the robot that looks like he was modeled on the Michelin Man.)

I always thought that robot suit looked better than the Lost in Space one.