Tuesday, December 30, 2003
F-A-B? 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: is the new Thunderbirds film a go?
OK, I'm now back in BK after a great and very chill break with the family in Toronto but a special "F-ck you" has to go out to US Customs for confiscating a small supply of my Mom's Guyanese-style beef patties and 1 box of frozen Licks' burgers I wanted to bring back to have a little taste of the T.dot here in Brooklyn.
Related reading:
Slaughterhouse Politics: Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow. (Village Voice)
Images courtesy: Amazon.com
They're making a live action version of Gerry Anderson's cult "Supermarionation" (read: puppet) show from the 60's Thunderbirds with Bill Paxton playing International Rescue leader and Tracy family patriarch, Jeff Tracy? This is not an encouraging first sign for the revival of one of my favorite TV shows as a shorty.
Verging-on-cheap-looking CGI effects, typos in the copy and the use of Blur's "Song 2" and Thin Lizzy in the music beds of the trailers available online so far also doesn't bode well. But with a stated intention by the film producers of targeting the film at the Spy Kids audience (which is probably not that different than the audience the original TV show was intended for), I guess this should come as no surprise.
While I'm probably one of the few people outside of the UK who knew of the original Italian Job starring Michael Caine and actually thinks the new one was as good, if not better, Hollywood's track record overall at remaking cult films and TV shows from the 60's like Get Carter, The Avengers and I-Spy has not been good to date. Obviously they had to update some elements from the show like those (ahem) "swinging" IR uniforms but I have a feeling that I'm going to be disappointed when this movie is finally released. Oh well, there's always Stingray, Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet to remake if they f-ck this one up.
Related reading:
Thunderbirds Trashed: Series creator condemns movie adaptation. (Empire Online)
More Thunderbirds links here.
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Related reading:
Slaughterhouse Politics: Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow. (Village Voice)
Images courtesy: Amazon.com
They're making a live action version of Gerry Anderson's cult "Supermarionation" (read: puppet) show from the 60's Thunderbirds with Bill Paxton playing International Rescue leader and Tracy family patriarch, Jeff Tracy? This is not an encouraging first sign for the revival of one of my favorite TV shows as a shorty.
Verging-on-cheap-looking CGI effects, typos in the copy and the use of Blur's "Song 2" and Thin Lizzy in the music beds of the trailers available online so far also doesn't bode well. But with a stated intention by the film producers of targeting the film at the Spy Kids audience (which is probably not that different than the audience the original TV show was intended for), I guess this should come as no surprise.
While I'm probably one of the few people outside of the UK who knew of the original Italian Job starring Michael Caine and actually thinks the new one was as good, if not better, Hollywood's track record overall at remaking cult films and TV shows from the 60's like Get Carter, The Avengers and I-Spy has not been good to date. Obviously they had to update some elements from the show like those (ahem) "swinging" IR uniforms but I have a feeling that I'm going to be disappointed when this movie is finally released. Oh well, there's always Stingray, Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet to remake if they f-ck this one up.
Related reading:
Thunderbirds Trashed: Series creator condemns movie adaptation. (Empire Online)
More Thunderbirds links here.
