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electric_blue68

(18,724 posts) Sun Nov 24, 2024, 12:41 AM Nov 24

For my fellow Media Science Fiction Fans just read a team is about to take a crack at a Forbidden Planet remake...

Waaaay too young to have seen it in the theater, but lord knows how many times
I watched it on Million Dollar Movie TV show! 😄😄😄

It wasn't till streaming that I finally got to see it in color! 😄 🩷

I absolutely loved them walking through the Krell machineries! Such wonderful set designs, matte paintings etc!

For Babylon 5 fans the bridge scene when Ivanova and ? visited a particular planet; well that was a visual homage to the original FP scene. 🩷 👍 🙂

Just in the nascent stage, so who knows when, if it gets created. But kind of fun.
Remakes are fine by me. One always has the Original, if not interested, or the remake is badly done.
As a visual artist I'd be soooo intrigued to see what they'd conjure up for Krell works, as it were.

My favorite shot is a mixed matte painting, w visual effects where you see this long walkway front to back. intersected by three shorter ones, structures to the far right, then hoisted on thin pillars these electrical sparky, glowing globes going backward into the mid back ground. Sooooo cool, with Morbius, and the 3 space crew walking there. Teeeny figures.

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For my fellow Media Science Fiction Fans just read a team is about to take a crack at a Forbidden Planet remake... (Original Post) electric_blue68 Nov 24 OP

Morbius. Mobius was a mathematician. nt eppur_se_muova Nov 24 #1

Hahahaha! Ty. Corrected! electric_blue68 Nov 24 #2

I saw it in the theater, at a matinee. I think it was a promotion and we got in for coke bottles for tickets Walleye Nov 24 #3

Wow, you saw it the theater! Yes, The Tempest. electric_blue68 Nov 24 #7

But Ann Francis was not a minor part of the story and she had some good lines Walleye Nov 24 #9

IIRC, the id monster was created by a Disney animator nuxvomica Nov 24 #4

Ah...didn't think about the style of the monster, but yeah, I can see what you're saying. electric_blue68 Nov 24 #8

Why re-make good movies? It's bad films that should be re-made. JoseBalow Nov 24 #5

I get what you're saying re bad movie remakes. Well, artisttic challenge, and if it's done well they might make money electric_blue68 Nov 24 #10

There's NO WAY they can improve on that great movie! Jeebo Nov 24 #6

Yeah it IS a very intelligent movie! Like I said- the artist challenge for some creatives... electric_blue68 Nov 24 #11

eppur_se_muova

(37,667 posts)

1. Morbius. Mobius was a mathematician. nt

Reply to electric_blue68 (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 12:58 AM

Nov 24

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Morbius is also the name of a Marvel Comics character -- a living vampire, featured in a movie of the same name.

I just hope they realize that SFX help, but do not make a movie. And they could get rid of some of the Fifties stereotypes and naivety.

electric_blue68

(18,724 posts)

2. Hahahaha! Ty. Corrected!

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 01:07 AM

Nov 24

I'd agree about '50s stereotypes.

Walleye

(36,439 posts)

3. I saw it in the theater, at a matinee. I think it was a promotion and we got in for coke bottles for tickets

Reply to electric_blue68 (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 04:10 AM

Nov 24

I still look at it as a gold standard in space movies. Not to mention it was based on a Shakespeare story. I became a big fan of Shakespeare in junior high school. I don’t care if they do a remake. I probably won’t watch it unless it comes on television and right in front of me, you are correct that visuals are hard to beat in that movie. And the female stereotypes in the 50s? That hasn’t changed that much.

electric_blue68

(18,724 posts)

7. Wow, you saw it the theater! Yes, The Tempest.

Reply to Walleye (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 05:10 PM

Nov 24

Yeah, female sterotypes havn't always changed that much depending areas, people, and depending on who's involved in creating a movie, show, play, etc

Walleye

(36,439 posts)

9. But Ann Francis was not a minor part of the story and she had some good lines

Reply to electric_blue68 (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 05:12 PM

Nov 24

nuxvomica

(13,017 posts)

4. IIRC, the id monster was created by a Disney animator

Reply to electric_blue68 (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 02:01 PM

Nov 24

You can see the Disney style in it. I loved the monumental underground architecture also. It's a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

electric_blue68

(18,724 posts)

8. Ah...didn't think about the style of the monster, but yeah, I can see what you're saying.

Reply to nuxvomica (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 05:11 PM

Nov 24

JoseBalow

(5,655 posts)

5. Why re-make good movies? It's bad films that should be re-made.

Reply to electric_blue68 (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 02:16 PM

Nov 24

If the story idea was good but the film didn't land, that is a good candidate for a re-make. But if the original is already a good film, why bother?

electric_blue68

(18,724 posts)

10. I get what you're saying re bad movie remakes. Well, artisttic challenge, and if it's done well they might make money

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #5)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 05:14 PM

Nov 24

Jeebo

(2,315 posts)

6. There's NO WAY they can improve on that great movie!

Reply to electric_blue68 (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 03:05 PM

Nov 24

I think Forbidden Planet is the BEST science fiction movie ever made. It's the most INTELLIGENT science fiction movie ever made. That central theme of the ancient Krell civilization and the way the humans in that movie interact with the artifacts of that civilization is so profound. I've always thought they shouldn't even try to re-make these great classic movies, because, as I said in the title, it just isn't possible to improve on them.

What I would REALLY love to see is a SEQUEL to Forbidden Planet. There are so many possibilities for a sequel. The Krell obviously were a space-faring civilization. Earth had been one of the planets they visited some hundreds of thousands of years ago. So, even though the Krell home planet of Altair IV is no longer there, there must be more Krell artifacts on other planets in our corner of the galaxy. There might even be some living Krell ...

-- Ron

electric_blue68

(18,724 posts)

11. Yeah it IS a very intelligent movie! Like I said- the artist challenge for some creatives...

Reply to Jeebo (Reply #6)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 05:33 PM

Nov 24

I remember you talked about a sequel, and finding Krell artifacts in our solar system, etc. I think that that would be a quite cool idea!

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