Revitalize a franchise

[BrandX]

10 hours ago, merrypessimist said:

 

No the last movie was the 4th one in the Wild West.  Everything after that is a fever dream.

 

lol...they went down hill, but to be fair, I sorta felt they all went gradually downhill.

[biostem]

3 hours ago, BrandX said:

You mean the 17 year old prostitute?  Just being a prostitute?  Honestly, that would just be backstory. 

 

Spoiler

Didn't she take growth suppressors/puberty blockers because her BF liked kids?

 

[BrandX]

5 hours ago, biostem said:

 

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Didn't she take growth suppressors/puberty blockers because her BF liked kids?

 

 

I honestly, don't recall that, but I only watched the anime and it's been awhile.  I know she was 17 in the manga, 18 in the American dub, and then I think back to 17 in something...but that...I really don't recall that in the anime.

[biostem]

2 minutes ago, BrandX said:

I honestly, don't recall that, but I only watched the anime and it's been awhile.  I know she was 17 in the manga, 18 in the American dub, and then I think back to 17 in something...but that...I really don't recall that in the anime.

It was in the comics/manga.  Similarly, if you watched the Riding Bean anime, (which sort of contained a prototype of Rally), one of the villain's love interest was basically an underage girl as well.

Edited December 7, 2024 by biostem

[BrandX]

14 hours ago, biostem said:

It was in the comics/manga.  Similarly, if you watched the Riding Bean anime, (which sort of contained a prototype of Rally), one of the villain's love interest was basically an underage girl as well.

 

Honestly, I'm not as bothered by such things, as it's part of the story and you either accept it or just don't watch it.  Though, today I'm sure people would do some sort of protest over it.  😛

Seems like something that wouldn't be any different from a SVU or Criminal Minds episode.  Some fiction just isn't for some people.  Plus, I'd imagine it'd be animated at which point I am even more likely to not care, as it's animated.

 

But that could be something they could easily skip to.

[Doc_Scorpion]

On 12/3/2024 at 6:30 AM, ShardWarrior said:

Space Battleship Yamato (aka Starblazers in the US). 

 

This one has it all.  Compelling drama, interesting, well fleshed out characters, aliens, epic space battles, and a ship among the pantheon of greatest sci-fi spaceships of all time.  I literally ran home from the bus stop when I was a kid to watch this.  At the time, it was one of the most popular English-translated anime series here in the US. 

Late to the party - but Uchū Senkan Yamato/Star Blazers has already been rebooted/revitalized...  as Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 and it's ongoing sequels.
 

 

[Oubliette_Red]

School House Rock - With lyrics by Weird Al and Lin-Manuel Miranda

 

 

 

[biostem]

"What we do in the Shadows" makes me wonder if they could reboot "The Munsters", but maybe play up their supernatural nature a bit more...

[Techwright]

12 hours ago, biostem said:

"What we do in the Shadows" makes me wonder if they could reboot "The Munsters", but maybe play up their supernatural nature a bit more...

 

Interesting.  It might also be intriguing to see the Munsters adapting to a modern high-tech setting.  You may recall they did have a few touches of the age when they were filmed, such as 1960s dance styles and that coffin hot rod, when hot rods were all the rage.  Brad Garrett might make a good Herman Munster, though he's about 65, so closer to Grandpa Munster age. 

[Skyhawke]

 

 

[biostem]

1 hour ago, Skyhawke said:

Was that the series where the MC creepily rode his partner/mecha-horse, who then turned into a humanoid form?

[Skyhawke]

3 hours ago, biostem said:

Was that the series where the MC creepily rode his partner/mecha-horse, who then turned into a humanoid form?

 

Yup.

 

[Voltor]

Others to revive:

 

Robotech: it would be nice to get a new series that shows the Sentinels saga or otherwise continues the adventures of Rick Hunter

 

Robocop: a mature rated violent Netflix anime series like the recently did with Terminator would be nice.   also I wouldn't mind if they adapted Frank Miller's Robocop vs  Terminator story into anime or live action.  It is time for a clash of the machines!  Also Robocop vs Predator

 

8-man, the original cyborg in pop culture history

 

The Bionic Man and Bionic Woman

 

Captain James T. Kirk: he is shown in a vault in Picard S3 Ep 6, and before the music obfuscates it you can hear a beeping that was confirmed as a remixed classic sickbay life monitor......captain kirk is alive!

 

Original Generation 1 Transformers cartoon:  pick up where the original series ended.  If Xmen 97 can work so can this

 

Judge Dredd: loved the Karl Urban movie lets get some more Dredd!

 

 

[InvaderStych]

6 hours ago, Voltor said:

Robotech: it would be nice to get a new series that shows the Sentinels saga or otherwise continues the adventures of Rick Hunter

 

I'd even go for a solid re-work of Genesis Climber Mospeada as its own series.

 

6 hours ago, Voltor said:

Original Generation 1 Transformers cartoon:  pick up where the original series ended.  If Xmen 97 can work so can this

 

Could certainly work.

 

While possibly considered "problematic" by some of the more persnickity folks out there, if we are talking about re-booting old OVAs, then let us add Bubblegum Crisis and Dominion to the list, plzkthx.

[Doc_Scorpion]

9 hours ago, Voltor said:

The Bionic Man and Bionic Woman

The Six Billion Dollar Man is a thing, and it's been floating about for a decade now and has never gone anywhere.  Though honestly, I don't think there's anyone who can do an action movie right in this post-MCU/Mission Impossible/John Wick/etc... world.

[BrandX]

9 hours ago, Voltor said:

Others to revive:

 

Robotech: it would be nice to get a new series that shows the Sentinels saga or otherwise continues the adventures of Rick Hunter

 

 

Could start over!  Start with Macross Saga, Rick and Lisa ❤️  Can streamline it, but keep those nice Valkyries.  Then, while possibly keeping some of Southern Cross ideas to get to Invid Invansion, just redo it.  Southern Cross needed work and it could possibly use some new mecha.

 

What I'd love to see with Invid Invasion is the story leading into Sentinels, but keeping more than just Scott and Marlene (Shadow Chronicles changed Marlene to joining the Sentinels), but the style of the Valkyries, while adding the cyclones.  Take some inspiration from the nice Macross II/7/Plus/Etc valkyries that look better than what we got in Invid Invasion (not the worst, but I liked Macross' better).

 

They've got the idea of a story right there!  They've got the characters!  I'd love to see them back and improved 🙂

[Voltor]

5 hours ago, InvaderStych said:

 

I'd even go for a solid re-work of Genesis Climber Mospeada as its own series.

 

 

Could certainly work.

 

While possibly considered "problematic" by some of the more persnickity folks out there, if we are talking about re-booting old OVAs, then let us add Bubblegum Crisis and Dominion to the list, plzkthx.

 

Bubblegum Crisis 2040 was done a few years back.  Wouldn't mind a revisit of it.

 

 

I still want Star Trek to revisit the Kirk easter Egg from Picard S3 Ep6,  he is alive in that chamber as part of Project Phoenix.

 

So why would Section 31 be doing this to Kirk?  Section 31 surely knows that something is coming......perhaps after Kirk was lost on the Enterprise B, they consulted the Guardian of Forever or something similar they have in their possession and learned that he was in the Nexus, but they couldn't get him out. So they recorded when he would come out and what happens to him.   They then prepare with advanced medicines and stealth tech so they aren't seen,  then after Kirk takes that fatal fall, they appear and inject him with medicines and nanites to start healing him, but the process also puts him into stasis so that it LOOKS like he dies in front of Picard.   Picard buries him and then leaves and Section 31 retrieves Kirk and takes him to their station to heal his injuries and keep him in stasis until the future threat that they have learned about from the Guardian or something else finally attacks.

 

This threat has taken over the Klingon Empire and the Cardassians and now is after Earth and the Federation.  Conquering worlds, blasting ships to pieces, totally ruthless and tactically brilliant.   Only Captain James T, Kirk, the stud of Starfleet and the universe has any hope of stopping this threat.......because it is MIRROR UNIVERSE KIRK

 

Mirror Kirk is defeated and dead at the end......but as to our Kirk........the way I have it is that he an either fly off into space the conquering hero and legend, or he gets the blaze of glory death he should have gotten in Generations.  Crushed on  falling scaffold.........yeeesh.

 

 

This can also be the opportunity to give the canonical fates of his crew.  Novels and comics don't count.

 

Admiral McCoy: advanced old age

 

Spock: lost in the super nova that destroyed Romulus

 

Scotty: my idea is that he traveled to the Fleet Museum, renews his friendship with LaForge and works at the museum until he passed away and his ashes are interred on the Enterprise-A

 

Sulu, Chekov and Uhura all had nice fates and histories in the Shatner novels that revived Kirk.  Use those ideas: Sulu was President of the Federation for 3 terms, Chekov was Admiral of Starfleet, and Uhura worked in Intelligence and also was an equal rights advocate for all members of the Federation.

 

Also Kirk could look up the records about what happened to the Enterprise B....I am sure he would be curious.  Novels and games have said it was either destroyed or missing but those don't count.

Edited Thursday at 09:02 PM by Voltor

[InvaderStych]

56 minutes ago, Voltor said:

Bubblegum Crisis 2040 was done a few years back.  Wouldn't mind a revisit of it.

 

Forgot about that one. I should probably give it a watch.

[Techwright]

17 hours ago, Voltor said:

The Bionic Man and Bionic Woman

 

Captain James T. Kirk: he is shown in a vault in Picard S3 Ep 6, and before the music obfuscates it you can hear a beeping that was confirmed as a remixed classic sickbay life monitor......captain kirk is alive!

 

 

I've been waiting for a Bionic Man reboot for a long time now.  So has Lee Majors.  He's been told they'll give him a cameo, but he's no spring chicken anymore.  Frankly, I feel they should drop the dollar amount in the title.  It will eventually make the material seem quite dated.

 

The Bionic Woman:  They actually did a reboot in 2007 with Michelle Ryan and Miguel Ferrer.  It only lasted 9 episodes.  I was a huge fan of the two Bionic series as a child, so I tuned in.  It was rubbish writing.  A complete waste of good acting talent and improved film techniques.   Hopefully, this doesn't seal the fate, and a future, better version will appear.

 

 

As to Kirk:  I've only seen season 1 of Picard, so I don't know this moment y'all are referring to, but if they're implying Kirk was resuscitated, isn't that what William Shatner did in the books?  I didn't read those, I felt it was tied to Shatner's hubris, but I read some synopsis of the books, and understand that through Borg tech, Kirk was regenerated.

[Voltor]

In the books Kirk was restored by the Borg and their allies (renegade Romulans). Borg wanted a weapon to kill Picard since he was once Locutus and revived Kirk would have surprise on his side. 

 

Spock, McCoy, Picard and Crew, DS9 all get involved, and at  the end it looks like Kirk is done for but Spock knows better.  Third book deals with the death of Sarek in TNG and Vulcan terrorists (seriously)

 

The next trilogy of books dealt with the ramifications of Kirk's visit to the mirror universe

 

As to Shatner's hubris, well as I recall neither he, nor the producers, writers and director of Generations were too thrilled with how Kirk was killed off. Many fans weren't either, it is not that Kirk was killed it was HOW.  Best way imo is that he goes down with the ship, the final duty of all Captains.

 

 

At 3:50 dial your volume to max, you can hear the remixed sickbay life monitor on Kirks chamber before the music obfuscates it.  The xray image is used so as to not pay Shatner and keeps the door open for recast of Kirk if they don't deage Shatner

 

[merrypessimist]

11 hours ago, InvaderStych said:

 

I'd even go for a solid re-work of Genesis Climber Mospeada as its own series.

 

 

Could certainly work.

 

While possibly considered "problematic" by some of the more persnickity folks out there, if we are talking about re-booting old OVAs, then let us add Bubblegum Crisis and Dominion to the list, plzkthx.

 

Didn't they remake Bubblegum Crisis in 2004?

[Voltor]

1 hour ago, merrypessimist said:

 

Didn't they remake Bubblegum Crisis in 2004?

 

Bubblegum Crisis 2040

[Voltor]

Another franchise to revive and reboot....

 

 

DARKMAN

 

This time instead of synthetic skin, use nano tech to alter his appearance, but keep the 99 minute timer due to power drain on the nanites, he is still badly disfigured and he is unable to restore his original appearance right away.  Also the nano tech can be used to alter his voice to sound like the person he needs to impersonate.  Also make where when the nano tech loses power it hurts him as we are talking about the nano tech reshaping his appearance instead of skin masks like the original.