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New V Miniseries in Limbo''
Looks like it. Franchise creator Ken Johnson’s new script, according to a story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TV critic Rob Owen, didn’t fry anyone’s burger over at NBC.
Read about it here. You'll have to scroll down to the end.
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No need for another one. How about something new?
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Original was great blah blah ... but whatever happened to original ideas? I'M TALKING TO YOU, PETER JACKSON!
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Jul 14, 2004 10:49:00 PM CDT
Really, how could it be worse than anything else that's on?
by gurglesnap
The entire entertainment industry should choose one year and agree to just finance NOTHING BUT movies and TV shows that execs don't understand and/or are given zero control over. Just choose the stuff that gets pitched to you randomly, put it into production, then leave it alone, just to see what happens. "A sequel to V? Sure, why not? Here's forty million, make it last. See you in a few months." Most of what would come from such an experiment would still suck, but it might at least suck in new and exciting ways...
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What with the weekly series coming out on DVD in the next couple of weeks. If sales are good on the set, expect NBC to reconsider...
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I mean, it was cool for essentially the same reason Alien was. ***Spoiler**** You had no idea they were reptiles intent on eatting people and stealing our water until half way through the first mini-series. So... cool twist. Then they had the shock value with the babies (especially the forked tongue). *** End Spoiler*** But when the shock and twist is used up, you're stuck with a basic War of the World knock off with cheap special effects. That well was low on the second mini-series and completely dry by the time the regular series rolled out.
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Jul 14, 2004 11:16:22 PM CDT
V is entertaining, at least the first series, but it is so ham f
by sexybeast
The scene where the kid collaborator is going to report the "scientist" family living in his parents house is just so over the top, but at least there is some self awarness when the jewish home owner talks about how he won't let what happen in Nazi Germany happen in America. Still the whole thing is just so ham fisted preachy it loses alot of its cache. -
Jul 15, 2004 12:17:37 AM CDT
I didn't even know that they were talking about a new V mini se
by cornstalkwalker
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Jul 15, 2004 2:36:01 AM CDT
The only way this would work is if NBC opened its wallets...
by commando cody
...And started the whole thing over again from scratch (which I don't think is the angle Johnson was taking, I thought I'd read he was just continuing the same setup, the same old NBC story only 20 years later). Problem with V is, as others have pointed out the Twilight Zone shock surprise of "why" the aliens are here or "what" they really look like has long since been blown. So even starting it fresh, what do you get? A TV version of INDEPENDENCE DAY that will have lower budgeted effects and just look "eh." So the only way to make this work really is a top to bottom "re-imagining", starting over, and NBC rolling the dice on an expensive mini (hoping to keep and use a core number of the sets for a following series). As a fan, I wouldn't mind seeing it brought back -- to be honest, I'm shocked that given the success the Sci Fi Channel had with GALACTICA that they're not even interested in trying a mini for V. Sheesh, it couldn't be any worse than most of the craptacular stuff they program...
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Jul 15, 2004 9:51:12 AM CDT
Maybe in THIS version they could twist around so WE eat the ALIE
by rev_skarekroe
Or would that just be stupid? sk
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The new mini series was set to take place sometime after the first, ignoring the second and the weekly. In other words, to one of the previous posters, no babies, no forked tongue and THANK GOD no Starchild. Never happened. They'd have to find a new way to explain what happened with the pregnency, but the birth took place in the second series which V's creator had no part of.
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...Are they considering the project a sequel or a remake? A remake would most probably be terrible, or at the very least not V. Alien invasions and human resistance have been a staple of SF for so long that remaking a particular tale of that kind almost isn't a remake by default. Case in point: Independence Day. If that film had been made for television and called V, nobody would bat an eyelash, since it's been "re-imagined." Either make an alien invasion miniseries and call it something OTHER than V, or just make a V sequel. How hard could the latter be? I actually think the last 20 years are enough to freshen the storyline. Pick up where we left off, with Donovan, Tyler, Willie and the rest still engaged in a guerilla war of attrition against the lizards. The Earth has been reduced to a battlefield (like the blasted futurescape of The Terminator, for example), and mankind is on its last leg. Let the story center on a last-ditch bid for ultimate victory and take it from there. Again, how hard could that be? And Jane Badler was fucking SMOKIN' in the original.
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"Pick up where we left off, with Donovan, Tyler, Willie and the rest still engaged in a guerilla war of attrition against the lizards." That's exactly what Joe Straczynski (Babylon 5) did when he wrote a treatment for a "V" revival years ago - Tyler gets cornered by what turn out to be special forces handlers who are re-activating the defunct resistance cells. Tyler's kinda pissed that they've been waiting all this time and nobody let him know they were out there, but they tell him to suck it up and get back in the game...
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Was Michael Ironside- he had this "I hope you fuck with me so I can kick your ass" attitude .
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fuck Charmed.
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Ive been trying to figure out the name of that show for the longest time. Thanx!
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Did the NBC see the Series that they made from the Miniseries? It was horrible. Just horrible. And now they turn this down. I think it really would have done well for them.
Is ths script published anywhere?
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