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THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN Mutates Into Cable Miniseries!!
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A&E is making a 4- to 6-hour miniseries out of the 1969 Michael Crichton novel “The Andromeda Strain,” about microscopic extraterrestrial organisms that wreak havoc on humanity.
Mikael Solomon (“Alias,” “Rome”) directs from a teleplay by Robert Schenkkan ("The Quiet American"). Read the whole story in Wednesday morning’s Variety here.
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Wook!!!
Also...can't wait for this one! -
But will we see anything new -- given all the Invasion stuff and War Of The Worlds and all that?
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Global Warming is a myth.
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Y'know...a facility such as the one described in the book was built for the lunar missions. Hell, it may even be right up the road at Ft. Detrick...or it may be in the middle of nowhere as described in the book. The old movie version, while interesting, moves at the pace of a retarded glacier. I'll be keeping an eye out for this one...sounds grrreeaaaattt!
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I hope you're a troll.
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Andromeda Strain, while dated a bit, was a fairly gripping movie. Sphere and Congo could most assuredly do with remakes. For Chrissakes, you've got Bruce Campbell in Congo for like 5 minutes?? What's wrong with you people? And Sphere? One of the most squandered casts in the past twenty years (minus Sharon Stone).
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Was that ever made into a movie? Part of me is thinking it was, but I can't remember any detail about it...
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This makes little to no sense. The movie is perfectly watchable, and it's not like the book was all that dense to begin with.
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For any of you smartasses out there. ;)
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Yeah, in the 70's with George Segal. I have little to no recollection of how it was, though.
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most overlooked films. A rare "science fiction" movie that treated the subject seriously, and a really good adaptation of a difficult novel. I guess the standard question is...why?
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This could be interesting.
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Was George the titular "Terminal Man?" Did he go nuts after catching the aroma of "pig shit in turpentine"? That might be worth a look at...
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if it's even remotely as good as the book sign me up.
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Directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, Flash Gordon), was a very stylish version of what is basically a "Frankenstein" story. Hodges used a black/white/grey color scheme throughout many of thre scenes that was effective. And it has a top notch '70's supporting cast of great character actors like Joan Hackett, Rich Dysart, Don Moffat, James Sikking and a young Jill Clayburgh. Thought Segal was miscast though. I remember most the device of a security peephole, where a guard would check in on the "patient/audience". Being a fan of the book, it was a good attempt, but not great.
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So I'm excited to see how this turns out. Hopefully they will retain the creepy atmosphere of the film (and the book to a lesser degree) as it really made the film stand out.
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And I just re-watched it. It still holds up!
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....this was pretty brilliant stuff. The 1966 movie, "The Satan Bug" was the template for MI:2's plot in some respects. Remaking "Andromeda" seems a little pointless now because the concept of "killer bugs from space, government labs (The Stand, anyone?), made by terrorists, etc." has been done to death. I don't see this doing well at all.
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hope the miniseries keeps the tone of the original. god knows cheesy tech-speak tv thrillers are two a penny.
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THE TERMINAL MAN could be a Great low budget film if they do it right. IT could be a little outdated, but it could be great.
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These are the things to remake. The old movie is terrific, but it's not a classic written in the dogma of film. You know, like Planet of the Apes (it was on the other day, god what a nightmare... Burton you should know better)
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The Robert Wise version conveys fear by creating a sense of scientific reality and asking the audience to think about the consequences of the threat. A longer TV miniseries is likely to be padded with emotional soap-opera crap. I hope they prove me wrong.
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I have the film version on DVD,it's a good film,I enjoyed it as a kid even though I didn't understand it at the time.I liked the split screens and the look of the actors and enviorments < (Bad Spollin).I bet they change the lady scientist character though to Alba her up a bit(I thought the original actress was excellent BTW).When you look back Robert Wise was responsible for some really good films.Don't really see the point of a re-do though I'll keep an open mind.
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Those were the days when you could show someone getting their wrist slit open and de-liquified blood pouring from the wound, and get a G rating. Most violent moment in a live-action G movie is probably still BATTLE OF BRITAIN, where a pilot gets shot in the face and his flight goggles fill up with blood. I'd have to do a bit of research as to the most violent moment in an animated G-rated film, but I seem to remember THE LITTLE MERMAID ended with the villain getting impaled on a ship or something.
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...like the lunar lab!
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I predict a weak tv show.
Michael Chricton writes formula novels. Compare his book Prey to Andromeda Strain, it's the same frakin book, just like Waterworld and The Postman are the same movie. If this show is anything like the book, or movie, it will suck donkey balls. -
It's a good book, and a fairly old one for alot of people on this site, have you read it?
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Of course I read the book, I think it's apparently obvious from my post that I read the book. but let me spell it out to you in plain English. Yes, I RokurGepta read the book entitled The Andromeda Strain, written by Author Michael Chricton. I have in fact read every novel Michael Chricton has published. Have you read his book Prey? Do you remember in both Prey and The Andromeda strain through the book little things like, but they overlooked this, or they overlooked that, or they noticed this too late. There's all this build up, and then the problem just ends. The ending to both books are textbook examples of Anticlimactic.
And you're correct, at first his books weren't formulaic, but since he wrote lost world, it seems all his books are very formuaic. I still read them, hoping for something fresh... -
Your problem seems to be him not improving over something like the Andromeda Strain. Fine. I don't care about Prey. I'm talking about a good early book of his that explores a mystery lead by a group of scientists in a fucking lab. It's not weak. Maybe it's weak that you think he's pulling the same tricks to this day. Fine. Maybe you're a genius and realized all along what was going on with the actual strain and the whole deal with saline solution. Good for you. But of course they are going to look over little things because there are millions of variables. It's a fun SCIENCE drama.
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...probably The Secret Of NIMH, which has a swordfight between two rats with climaxes with one plunging his sword right into the other's gut (eliciting a VERY pained scream). Plus there are rats getting injections with graphic closeups of needles piercing flesh, a mouse cutting her arm and dripping blood on the ground, a spider getting squished with it's blood dribbling out...NIMH is ridiculously harsh for it's G rating.
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i mean, jeez, look at the rating porky's had? hell wasn't pg-13 invented for indianna jones? hell in journey of natty gan, a disney movie, the main character says "SHIT" ratings were hella lax back then. I think everyone was way more stoned back in the day
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Indy was one of 2-3 movies that cause the PG-13 rating to be created. And it was because of the fact that things got lax that they did it.
Pretty much the only thing that got a R rating was extreme violence, questionable political themes, and full on sex.
That being said they where much more graphic in their depiction of sex too back in the day, none of this grinding shit. -
Yea, I remember it was the chest scene in Temple that caused all the hubbub, and Gremlins was another one. People getting upset over a puppet getting blown up in a microwave! Geez.
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global warming bashing novel. I won't even read Next. Prey would - could have been good - but the first person story telling style and all his bitching "Woe is me" over his wife being "different" could have been cut in half - atleast. After a while the story picks up and becomes pretty damn great but the first half drags due to such lame bs. I think I'm done with him, which I hate to say, since Congo - the book - was out of the park (it's the first one I've read). The movie blows! Hey Hollywood! Remake that then put a nail in it.
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I worry that making it a mini series will introduce many unnecessary sub plots that weren't there in the original.
Also, how are they going to handle the "sliver of paper" problem if they remake the story in current times? -
But seriously why did they have to throw the stupid badly aiming lasers in there?
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Sam Waterson, G.W. Bailey, Rick Rossovich and Jeffrey DeMunn...Biotek industries?
A Good bad 80's movie. Ah, Memories. -
The whole Exposition of Wildfire...the whole way the alert is called in..The whole movie had a chilling plausibility to me. For the period...it smacks of authenticity.
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