• Series reboots

    From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to All on Sun Aug 14 01:16:00 2022
    If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how would you do it?

    My pick is a short-lived comdeic action series from the late 80's called Hard Time on Planet Earth. The original series was about an alien elite military o fficer who helped win a planetary war. He gets in trouble leading a
    rebellion against the ruling council. Due to his recognition as a hero, his legal counsel gets his sentenced lightened to spend hard time living on a primitive planet (Earth) and placed in human form. His regular form is never showed, except he wore a full body armor and helmet.

    He is a similar character to Todd, the main character in the movie Soldier in that he was raised and bred for war. He is smart, though, and learn by watching television shows how to interact with other humans. He has a compnaion, a small robot known as Control. It's part parole officer and
    assist him in acquiring knowledge. It hovers, and can become invisible. It can tap into electrical and data systems to help get around his lack of a
    paper trail. From here the show is basically the lone drifter that gets
    hooked into defending the weak from the strong or brutal elements. He has
    made enemies in the past, and must keep a low profile because he lacks the weapons and armor to fight them.

    In my remake, Jesse would've always had human form, except he and his troops are
    told they were genetically engineered to be warriors. The host species that kidnapped them from Earth as children and trained them would be portrayed as
    a more frail hominid form which looks like it could be related to humans, but not as robust (hence their choice to exploit humans in a proxy war.)

    The series would begin with a battlefield scene where Jesse and his troops in battle armor breach the door of an enemy bunker, and dispatch the reptillian soldiers manning the controls. They blow the main control systems, which disables the enemy's technical assets. The other "enhanced" soldiers clean
    up the battlefield with little effort. This establishes Jesse as a hero of
    the Republic, and he is given the right to full citizenship. The public accepts his difference in appearance under the guise he is genetically enhanced. Due to his inability to adjust to the alien civillian life, within
    a month this decorated hero is living on the streets and getting into
    trouble.

    The military intelligence group which knows the secret about the "enhanced" soldiers sees this as a larger problem as they decommission other humans troop s that were raised outside their social system. Rather than euthanize these "heroes," they plan to return them to Earth in a way that would not reveal
    they were pawns in a proxy war. They convince Jesse he will be sent on a
    deep cover recon mission for the Republic on a less developed planet. His enhancements will help him blend in with the planet's inhabitants. The
    officer who recomended this project also gets assigned, and is cosmetically altered so he can pass as an acceptable, but scrawny example of a human.

    Since Earth is outside the realm of treatied planets, the reptillian species has spies reporting of this scouting mission to Earth. They suspect it is
    more than what is stated, and want to get their hands on an "enhanced"
    soldier without intruding on Republic soil. They send "skin jobs," special infiltrator troops wearing skin suits to make them look human, to track down J esse and bring him back dead or alive for study.

    Right off the bat, I expect to have Jesse to begin putting the pieces
    together as to what is going on. He is quite clever, and can see through a snow job. As he tries to assimilate into human culture, he has PTSD to deal with. He finds comfort in a veteran's group, listening to other vets working out their problems. He would mention from time to time a battle he was at,
    and the names of the alien locations could easily pass for somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. He is also working day jobs doing landscaping or other physical labor. The alien officer who accompanies him tries to stay out of the
    public, although he tries to supplment their income by working from the motor home they purchased with gold they were issued to establish currency with.

    One of Jesse's employers notices his skillset is much more tactically
    oriented after a group of thugs attempt to rough up Jesse, and offers him
    jobs that pay well, but are less than legitimate. This does not bode well
    with his parole officer, even though he tries to explain this is an
    opportunity to explore the seedier aspects of human society.

    That is an outline of what will be covered. Alien assassins, exposing his origins, morality and work ethics, and possibly flashbacks to when he was a child and possibly finding his family. There might even be a sub plot of gove rnment catching attention to him and his parole officer, and possible assassination attempts by the Republic.

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  • From Phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Moondog on Sun Aug 14 10:28:33 2022
    Re: Series reboots
    By: Moondog to All on Sun Aug 14 2022 01:16 am

    If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how would you do it?

    That sounds pretty awesome, and I'm going to have to look up that show. The name is familiar to me, but I'm not sure if I ever watched it. I didn't have cable TV ever, if it was on that.

    Just last night I was thinking I'd like to see a reboot/remake of Sledge Hammer. I did not have it as well thought as yours though :). or at all.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Phigan on Sun Aug 14 22:56:00 2022
    Re: Series reboots
    By: Phigan to Moondog on Sun Aug 14 2022 10:28 am

    Re: Series reboots
    By: Moondog to All on Sun Aug 14 2022 01:16 am

    If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how wo you do it?

    That sounds pretty awesome, and I'm going to have to look up that show. The

    Just last night I was thinking I'd like to see a reboot/remake of Sledge Ham


    lol. I sort of remember that series. Wasn't it like a Dirty Harry style cop comedy? i recall a Robocop parody where they turned him into "Hammeroid"

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Moondog on Sun Aug 21 20:55:24 2022
    On 8/13/22 22:16, Moondog wrote:
    If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how would you do it?

    Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
    point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different
    than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
    Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.

    If they could reboot it without a gender swap, and without making the
    main character woke, that would be nice. If Amazon could give it a
    similar treatment to Reacher or Jack Ryan, I'd be very happy.


    Think it would be funny to have a conversation with Oscar and Steve...

    Oscar: How much do you think you cost anyway?

    Steve: I don't know, five or six million.

    Oscar: You cost a bit more than six million dollars pal.
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Tracker1 on Mon Aug 22 13:46:00 2022
    Re: Re: Series reboots
    By: Tracker1 to Moondog on Sun Aug 21 2022 08:55 pm

    On 8/13/22 22:16, Moondog wrote:
    If you could reboot a movie or TV series, which would you pick and how wou you do it?

    Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
    point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
    Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.

    If they could reboot it without a gender swap, and without making the
    main character woke, that would be nice. If Amazon could give it a
    similar treatment to Reacher or Jack Ryan, I'd be very happy.


    Think it would be funny to have a conversation with Oscar and Steve...

    Oscar: How much do you think you cost anyway?

    Steve: I don't know, five or six million.

    Oscar: You cost a bit more than six million dollars pal.
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    About 15 years ago there was a Bionic Woman redo that didn't run long, but around 97 I recall a reboot where it was supposed be Austin's son that gets injured and enlisted to get the cybernetic implants. Instead of just
    replacing an arm and legs without consideration how the rest of the body is massively under spec to handle the stresses of lifting engine blocks and leaping 20 feet, the new procedure involved flooding the body with nanobots wh ich in turn fuse to the spinal and nervous system to create the neural
    network, and more nanobots which bond to the bone and muscles to enhance strength and durability.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Tracker1 on Mon Aug 22 09:13:00 2022
    Tracker1 wrote to Moondog <=-

    Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly
    different than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone... Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.

    That's got a better ring than 32 million dollar man (adjusted for inflation)

    If they could reboot it without a gender swap, and without making the
    main character woke, that would be nice. If Amazon could give it a similar treatment to Reacher or Jack Ryan, I'd be very happy.

    I want to see Steve Austin versus Predator.

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Moondog on Wed Aug 24 15:02:52 2022
    On 8/22/22 10:46, Moondog wrote:
    Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
    point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different
    than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
    Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.
    ...

    About 15 years ago there was a Bionic Woman redo that didn't run long, but around 97 I recall a reboot where it was supposed be Austin's son that gets injured and enlisted to get the cybernetic implants. Instead of just replacing an arm and legs without consideration how the rest of the body is massively under spec to handle the stresses of lifting engine blocks and leaping 20 feet, the new procedure involved flooding the body with nanobots wh
    ich in turn fuse to the spinal and nervous system to create the neural network, and more nanobots which bond to the bone and muscles to enhance strength and durability.

    It was a made for TV movie... been (re)watching Six Million Dollar Man piecemeal the past couple months... once I get through Bionic Woman
    going to do the TV movies.

    They recently did a US BluRay release of Six Million Dollar Man and the
    Bionic Woman is out in a month or so... will probably rip/encode from
    the newer source and continue watching from that.
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Tracker1 on Thu Aug 25 11:34:00 2022
    Re: Re: Series reboots
    By: Tracker1 to Moondog on Wed Aug 24 2022 03:02 pm

    On 8/22/22 10:46, Moondog wrote:
    Six Million Dollar Man... probably rebooted as simply "Bionic". Main
    point would be to have a positive male role model, so slightly different >> than the original (less womanizing), but overall the same tone...
    Military hero, test pilot, accident, works for govt/spy, etc.
    ...

    About 15 years ago there was a Bionic Woman redo that didn't run long, but around 97 I recall a reboot where it was supposed be Austin's son that get injured and enlisted to get the cybernetic implants. Instead of just replacing an arm and legs without consideration how the rest of the body i massively under spec to handle the stresses of lifting engine blocks and leaping 20 feet, the new procedure involved flooding the body with nanobot ich in turn fuse to the spinal and nervous system to create the neural network, and more nanobots which bond to the bone and muscles to enhance strength and durability.

    It was a made for TV movie... been (re)watching Six Million Dollar Man piecemeal the past couple months... once I get through Bionic Woman
    going to do the TV movies.

    They recently did a US BluRay release of Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is out in a month or so... will probably rip/encode from
    the newer source and continue watching from that.
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    Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com

    I haven't watched much in reruns, but i recall the Bigfoot episodes, the Mars probe and it's successor, and the story arc where people were being replaced
    by robots. The robots were dead ringers, except they were heavy AF. that
    was their giveaway.

    I recall Andre the Giant as the first Bigfoot, and wasn't the second time he appeared played by Ted Cassidy?

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