Irritating Remake-Of-The-Day #2: REBOOT Gets...Ummm...Rebooted?! And You Can Help Shape It?!

Merrick again...
You folks remember REBOOT? It's kinda like TRON but without the TRONiness. It's all CGI, with shitty voice work, and no Bridges, Boxleitner, Warner, Morgan, Hughes, light cycles, or Peter Jurasik from BABYLON 5. It was a CGI series from the mid-1990s...

...and it's being remade as a movie or three. Interesting that there's no reference to theatrical release...only "feature length". I'm smelling Straight-to-DVD. One intriguing element of this revival is how they're going about approaching the source material:

"The idea is to relaunch the brand in a new way," said Rainmaker Animation executive vp Paul Gertz, who will oversee the project. To do this, Rainmaker has entered into a strategic alliance with Zeros 2 Heroes, a Web site set to launch today(7/23) to provide a social network for comic book fans. Essentially, five undiscovered writers identified by Rainmaker were selected to work with the animation studio's production teams to prepare a pitch for the new "ReBoot" story line. These will be posted on the Zeros 2 Heroes site Thursday, the opening day of San Diego Comic-Con International. Those who visit the site will be able to work with each production team to help refine the ideas for "ReBoot" and later vote and select a favorite pitch. The brainstorming environment is what the site calls "Think Ups."

...says THIS ARTICLE! By the way, HERE is a link to the website mentioned above. This kind of interactivity could be kind of fun for those who followed the show; although (and as always) I'd prefer we move forward...towards fresh material...instead of constantly looking back. It's inconceivable to me (and statistically improbable) that promising, NEW material isn't out there waiting for love from The Powers That Be.