Also, there have been twenty James Bond movies. Why do they keep remaking "Dr. No" over and over again every couple of years? Oh, and was "Spider-Man 3", the remake of "Spider-Man", as bad as everyone said?

Okay, is this still unclear? The new Barbarella movie will not be a remake of the forty year old Barbarella movie just because they were both inspired by the same comic book series. And it is not a franchise, a continuation or a sequel. It is a new movie based on the same source, but I doubt it will have exactly the same plot. it's not like remaking 'Hamlet', after all, it's not Shakespeare, it's a French comic book.

Barbarella was ahead of it's time as a comic book in 1962 France and may be revolutionary in conservative 21st century America. Or it may seem behind the times and quaint. Rodriguez will have to stay as close to the original comic book material as possible and still 'reinvent and update' where needed to keep it from coming off as 'campy'. Unless he considers the other '60s film's campiness an asset and wants to go that way with it. Which could be an error, but it's his call and he's earned a certain amount of our trust. Anyway, couldn't think of a better man for the job.

----------------- Barbarella: The Musical ***** Barbarella - Jessica Simpson President of the Earth - David Bowie Evil Twins - Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera Ice Hunter - Ted Nugent Professor Ping, Leader of the Cave People - Iggy Pop Pygar, the blind angel - Justin Timberlake The Great Tyrant - Alanis Morissette Resistance Leader Dildano - Sanjaya Dr. Durand Durand - Simon Le Bon Opening Credits theme: Kylie Minogue Closing credits theme: Duran Duran Incidental soundtrack: Mattmos

-------------------- Quentin Tarantino's Barbarella ***** Barbarella - Uma Thurman President of the Earth - John Travolta Evil Twins - Alicia Witt, Laura Prepon Ice Hunter - Bruce Willis Professor Ping, Leader of the Cave People - Robert Forster Pygar, the blind angel - Steve Buscemi The Great Tyrant - Pam Grier Resistance Leader Dildano - Tim Roth Dr. Durand Durand - Samuel L. Jackson

------------- Flying Fury of Barbarella ***** Barbarella - Michelle Yeoh President of the Earth - Jackie Chan Evil Twins - Yunjin Kim, Bai Ling Ice Hunter - Sammo Hung Professor Ping, Leader of the Cave People - James Wong Pygar, the blind angel - James Kyson Lee The Great Tyrant - Lucy Lui Resistance Leader Dildano - Masi Oka Durand Durand - Yun-Fat Chow -------------------

Of course, the trick is getting them to get naked and simulate being fucked by a kinky organ on screen... My money's on Scarlett.

To each their own.

And now we get a lousy remake? From an overrated director??? I am fucking bored...

And still some kids here cry for some nudity. In a feature film. How nude will it be, even if it's rated R? Infantile morons.

A "remake" would be if they made a new movie based on the same story. Since there were a half dozen or so major story arcs of Jean-Claude Forest's comic, collected into Graphic Album form, I doubt they'll need to cover the exact same material. Although the search for Durand Durand is a key element that everyone remembers from the 1968 film (thanx to the band Duran Duran), so they might use that.

The 1968 film Barbarella was very specific to its time. It was part of the "camp" trend and the colorful "pop art" movement. See also Danger: Diabolik, Modesty Blaise, the Batman TV series, Lost In Space, etc. And the '60s was an era of social change and political turmoil and unrest. There was a reason the Beatles wrote a song called "Revolution". The character of Resistance Leader Dildano was one such "hippy revolutionary" character; very much a product of his time. in spite of being a "futuristic" sci-fi space opera comedy, there was a lot of Barbarella which now seems dated. The new film will draw from the same source material, but I suspect the interpretation will be quite updated.

Terms like 'franchise' and 'sequel' imply a continuity; that the characters in the new movie will be the same characters as in the previous film, that they will recall the events of the previous film having happened to them. Since it's set in the distant future, it's possible Rodriguez could set his film one year, or one month, or ten hours, after the previous "installment" and have the characters make reference to the events in the previous film as having just happened or having recently happened. I do not know what Rodriguez has in mind, but I doubt that is it.

If I was unclear before, I do not think "Batman Returns" was either a remake or a sequel to the 1966 Adam West "Batman" film. I guess DC and Warners might consider Batman to be a franchise character, but I don't think anyone believes the events in those two movies happened to the same version of that character, with the two films being in continuity with one another. They were just two films made nearly forty years apart based on the same comic book character, just as the two Barbarella films will be based on the same French comic book character created by Jean-Claude Forest.

I don't think "Superman Returns" was a sequel to the first Fleischer Studios Superman cartoon. (although I admit that's disingenious: "Superman Returns" was very clearly intended to be considered a sequel to "Superman II")

The Gus Van Sant "Psycho" was a close remake. The Baldwin/Basinger version of "The Getaway" was a remake. "Wrath of Khan" was a sequel to "Space Seed". The Die Hard or Bourne films are franchises: films in which each new installment happens with the same characters who lived through the previous installments. By those definitions, I do not think it would make sense to make a new Barbarella film that was a remake, sequel or franchise film in continuity with the one make 40 years ago. And based on an only passing familiarity with the work of Robert Rodriguez, I don't think that is what he plans to do.

But I'm not claiming omnisceince and I am not a betting man. I certainly could be wrong. If Rodriguez makes a shot for shot remake of the 1968 Roger Vadim "Barbarella" film, I'll certainly feel slightly embarrassed over having said that I thought that was not what he would do, in an archived public forum.

My point was that not all the Bond films were sequels or remakes of Dr. No.

You are correct, the first 12-15 films were... um, let's say "inspired" by the Ian Fleming novels (each of which I've read at least three times, so, no, I didn't forget about them) I put 'inspired' in quote; some were quite similar to the novels (Dr. No, Goldfinger), some almost a direct adaptation of the book ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"), and some had virtually nothing to do with the novel other than the title and the names of a few characters. (The Spy Who Love Me). Some incorporated details from short stories into much longer films (The Living Daylights, Octopussy). And some were totally fabricated: the later films, after they ran out of Fleming titles, were not based on the subsequent bond novels from John Gardner or Raymond Benson.

up until Casino Royale, all the previous Bond films, in spite of the leading man cast changes, were supposed to be an in continuity franchise about the same character. For example, Lazenby's marriage is referenced in the Moore and Dalton films. There was even continuity retro-fitted in, with Blofeld and Spectre being written into the earlier bond films when he wasn't in the original novels.

All Bond movies are based on the Fleming Bond novel character, just as all Batman films, TV shows and cartoon series are based on the Bob Kane comic book character and both Barbarella movies are inspired by the Jean-Claude Forest comics that were serialized in magazine form, then collected in Graphic Albums. That was the point I was making.

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Case closed.

Please, just don't call this re-imagining "Barbarella." I'm begging you!

No, I haven't read the comics. I don't speak or read Canadienne and was a couple years too young to be buying adults only material in '68, when a translation of the first Graphic Album was released here in conjunction with the movie. (Although I did turn 18 in time for the underground comix revolution.)

Yes, the Vadim film was a reasonably accurate adaptation, based on the little I've seen from the comics. And yes, I hope the Rodriguez film, even if updated to current tastes and interests, will also be reasonably faithful to the source material.

My main point has always been, if two films are based on Hamlet, that doesn't make one a remake of the other one. Did you think the Daniel Craig Casino Royale was a remake of the David Niven comedy or the Barry Nelson 1954 television play? I didn't, I think they were just all based on the same Ian Fleming novel.