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Published on Monday, July 22, 2002 - 10:47am |
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Riker commands that THUNDERBIRDS are Go Go Go!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... Now, I'm not perturbed about Frakes directing this, but rather... Making THUNDERBIRDS as a UNDER 10 family film... Ya know, why not just make a great friggin' Thunderbirds adventure-action-sci-fi film that appeals to AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES, why deliberately set out to pander to the under 10 crowd? If you really want to get the widest audience for this, go all CG... But naaaah, that'll never happen. Besides, what's the point... those puppets frickin kicked balls!
From the BBC, keep up the good work
Regards
Julus Caeser
Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes has signed up to direct a live-action film version of cult puppet show Thunderbirds, ending years of speculation over the project.
The 1960s series, created by Gerry Anderson, focused on the adventures of the top-secret International Rescue agency, run by retired astronaut Jeff Tracy and his five sons.
Other key characters included Lady Penelope, the agency's London representative, her chauffeur Parker, and the Tracys' houseguest Brains.
Although only 32 episodes were made, the show, first broadcast in 1964, still has a huge following. It is currently being repeated in the UK on the digital channel Boomerang.
A spin-off film, Thunderbirds Are Go, was released in 1966.
The live-action, Universal Pictures project is scheduled to begin filming early next year.
A live-action feature based on the series has been in development for some time.
British producers Working Title and director Peter Hewitt, who made the recent comedy Thunderpants, have both been attached to the project over the past few years.
Adult audiences
A number of actors have also been linked with the film including the Baldwin brothers - Alec, William, Steven and Daniel - who were once tipped to take on the roles of the Tracy siblings.
However, plans to turn the live-action version into an action-adventure aimed at adult audiences were recently scrapped, and the project has been rewritten as a family film aimed at the under-10s.
Frakes, best known for playing Commander William Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation, also directed and starred in two Star Trek films, Insurrection and First Contact.
He recently directed the children's comedy Clockstoppers, and will also reprise the role of Riker in the latest Star Trek film Nemesis, which will be released in the UK in January 2003.
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Reader Talkback
Noooooooooo by Celtican | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:11:28 AM | Bet they had to 'pull some
strings' to get this
project by Chilli Kramer | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:13:13 AM | Battle of The Planets by BlankGeneration | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:26:42 AM | Hrmph by Not The Messiah | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:31:31 AM | A rival studio has announced
plans to bring SUPERCAR to the
silv by durhay | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:39:21 AM | How did Frakes get this job
after Clockstoppers tanked? by Lance Rock | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:46:36 AM | Cast the entire Baldwin clan
as the Tracys. by Christopher3 | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:48:27 AM | Frakes couldn't direct
traffic with an assistant by SilentBob X | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:52:56 AM | Christopher3 by Judo John | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:57:09 AM | Re: Battle of the Planets by SleazyG. | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:58:28 AM | I'm number 12!!!! by mcbeck | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:09:16 PM | Make a PG family adventure
film, not a kids movie. Men
in Black by Wesley Snipes | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:09:41 PM | Sadly, no. by Christopher3 | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:13:46 PM | Oh yes, Frakes and the
Baldwins - that's fucking
awesome by WeedyMcSmokey | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:29:07 PM | Only real casting choice is
Sam Donaldson by barkalounger | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:30:26 PM | thunderbirds are...horrid by Astaldo | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:32:19 PM | Baldwins! You can already see
the strings! by Spab2 | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:44:34 PM | Robert Colbert from the "Time
Tunnel" as Jeff Tracy by Uncapie | Jul 22nd, 2002 12:57:02 PM | Where are the god damn
puppets? by Vern | Jul 22nd, 2002 01:23:56 PM | Blank Generation, if you'd
like to discover the epic
storyli by scorpio2nd | Jul 22nd, 2002 01:43:07 PM | I always thought that
Thunderbirds only did appeal
to the very y by scorpio2nd | Jul 22nd, 2002 01:53:49 PM | Anyone ever seen Thunderbirds
2086, what was up with that? by scorpio2nd | Jul 22nd, 2002 01:55:27 PM | One last comment, Arnlod
Vosloo is the Hood, no doubt
about it, by scorpio2nd | Jul 22nd, 2002 02:04:24 PM | Puppets Disturb me by Jango Matt | Jul 22nd, 2002 02:07:05 PM | Excellent news! by rev_skarekroe | Jul 22nd, 2002 02:38:44 PM | cost to profit by u.k. star | Jul 22nd, 2002 03:12:00 PM | I'm soooooooooooo there! by Poetamelie | Jul 22nd, 2002 03:13:01 PM | descent movie by u.k. star | Jul 22nd, 2002 03:17:37 PM | Hrmmmmm by Emmeric Belasco | Jul 22nd, 2002 03:50:12 PM | Jury's out on this one by FedEx Drone | Jul 22nd, 2002 04:44:46 PM | Gotchaman by K0NY | Jul 22nd, 2002 04:50:42 PM | Anyone here remember the
TERRAHAWKS? by Psyclops | Jul 22nd, 2002 05:56:42 PM | Terrahawks by FedEx Drone | Jul 22nd, 2002 06:02:13 PM | Perfect choice by ginoc09 | Jul 22nd, 2002 06:09:46 PM | I guess by james175 | Jul 22nd, 2002 06:33:11 PM | "Supercar" is at Universal as
well... by Mr_Mayhem | Jul 22nd, 2002 08:07:47 PM | Weren't Anderson's
best by Bazman | Jul 22nd, 2002 08:33:19 PM | Making a film for a family
audience is not "pandering" by HootDad | Jul 22nd, 2002 11:14:30 PM | THIS TALKBACK WILL JOIN THE
AICN CLASSICS by jackburtonlives | Jul 23rd, 2002 12:10:26 AM | K0NY by superninja | Jul 23rd, 2002 12:24:42 AM | Looks like Sleazy G already
covered what I'd said. by superninja | Jul 23rd, 2002 01:01:39 AM | If they fuck this up, it will
rape my childhood by TheMatarife | Jul 23rd, 2002 01:45:41 AM | Supermarionation !!!!!!! by Daft Mole | Jul 23rd, 2002 03:33:31 AM | Captain Scarlet and The
Mysterons by Ernst Blofeld | Jul 23rd, 2002 04:35:19 AM | A little perspective
please.... by Geordiebert | Jul 23rd, 2002 05:12:11 AM | budgets by Col paul foster | Jul 23rd, 2002 08:33:15 AM | How can you people think Cap
Scarlet was better than t
birds? by Northerner82 | Jul 23rd, 2002 08:44:13 AM | When are they going to do Land
of the Lost for crying out
loud!! by enik1138 | Jul 23rd, 2002 10:52:59 AM |
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