I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.

  • theherk@lemmy.world
    671·
    3 个月前

    The Expanse

    The show didn’t cover the Laconia story line, and given the time that passes before the final three books, we’re coming up on the perfect time to get the same cast back to do it.

    The last few books are, in my view, the most compelling part of an already superb story.

    • Womble@piefed.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 个月前

      Isn’t the time skip in the books like 20-30 years? its a while to wait until the actors have aged that much. I’d love to see it though.

      • theherk@lemmy.world
        10·
        3 个月前

        Yes, but you certainly don’t need to and wouldn’t want to wait that long. You risk lower interest, retirements, loss of acting ability through death or injury, etc. You can convincingly age adults pretty soon. I think they could start filming now or easily within the next 5 years.

      • aldhissla@piefed.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 个月前

        Aging 20-30 years in that future should be portrayed as ~10-15 years of aging in our timeline. People (esp. Inners) are far more long-lived thanks to advanced pharmaceuticals. See the coroner’s bit about life expectancies in S1.

  • Sheridan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    3 个月前

    There was this late 90s show called Sliders where this team travels to different parallel Earths with different histories. I would like to see that rebooted.

    • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      3 个月前

      That show was so good and then the network started fucking with it and ruined it. It’s almost unbelievable how bad it actually got, it’s comical, like they were trying to ruin a show.

    • dkppunk@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      3 个月前

      I would love to see a good reboot of Sliders. That was the show that got me started on the internet. The Scifi channel used to advertise their chatrooms on commercials and I would go to the library to chat with other Scifi channel nerds. Good times.

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 个月前

        Lots of early 2000’s Scifi channel shows deserve a reboot

        Eureka

        Warehouse 13

        Dresden Files

        Librarian franchise (technically movies, but still)

        Legend of Earthsea

        Sanctuary

        Just so many shows that either didn’t get the budget/attention they deserved, or were killed by the writer’s strike.

    • charokol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      I didn’t really understand how TV worked back then, and I just hated that the Sliders crew couldn’t get back home

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      3·
      3 个月前

      Sounds like the movie Parallels. Doesn’t have the most satisfying ending in the world but I always thought that it would make a good TV show, sounds like it already existed

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 个月前

      Best thing about a Sliders reboot is we could have one cameo per classic character, showing us where they finally landed. And then just continue on with the new cast.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    15·
    3 个月前

    Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of ‘blanks’ might hit too close to home nowadays as it’s pretty much a literal reality now.

  • CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 个月前

    Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 个月前

      My 10 year old and I just watched airplane! And started top secret this weekend.

      The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!

      Johnny was fucking hilarious, by far the funniest character. I could imagine the stuff he’d be in today if he didn’t pass away.

      Oh and tremors 1 and 2 are in my top 20 favs.

      • CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 个月前

        I wasn’t really psyched about it tbh, plus I’m not really into horror in general so the references would be lost on me anyways.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
    14·
    3 个月前

    I’ll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, “Reboot”.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      2·
      3 个月前

      I saw that series a few weeks ago and I didn’t like it. “Captain Planet starts killing” is a great premise, and I really liked it in the episode of Rick and Morty where Morty dates Planetina until she starts murdering coal miners.

      But in the Cheadle version, he’s just an asshole for no reason. I don’t think Captain Planet is the right character to use for a “corrupting influence of power” story unless you’re going to do a very nuanced critique of Soviet ideals.

      I mean Homelander is also an asshole for no reason, but that story works, because he’s a capitalist and an abuse victim. The story makes sense. It’s telling us that capitalism and superheroes are incompatible. But what’s Cheadle Planet telling us? That environmentalism and superheroes are incompatible? I don’t believe that story. I have an easier time believing that environmentalism and pacifism are incompatible, like in Rick and Morty. But I don’t think environmentalism and being a good person are incompatible.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
    131·
    3 个月前

    I always thought that every 30 years they should reboot back to the future. No connection to the original in terms of production team or cast. The writer and director can’t be old enough to have many memories of the time (Zemeckis and Gale were both 4 in 1955)

    Just someone doing their own take on “teenager goes back in time and meets their parents as teenagers”

    See how the “past” of 30 years ago compares to the “present” of the previous version

    Long term, that could be a really interesting experiment

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 个月前

        I make no prescriptions beyond the first. No objection if they do, but i think “what will the near future look like” is more common and therefore less interesting

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      4·
      3 个月前

      Since 2016, I’ve wanted a Back To The Future remake just to have a scene where Doc Brown disbelieves Donald Trump is president like the original had him disbelieve Ronald Reagan was president

    • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
      3·
      3 个月前

      I seem to remember that bttf has some kind of binding agreement or such that someone from the og movies put into place that they can’t/won’t reboot it.

      We did get the adventure game from telltale. Which was pretty good. (Did a lot of stuff with the storyline and it had og cast doing voices).

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 个月前

      Also, for anyone who missed it, because I missed it, Back to the Future has continued in animation twice - once official, and again as Rick and Morty.

  • chris@l.roofo.cc
    11·
    3 个月前

    I miss black and white. Also I would like to play something like viva piñata.