Topic: Space: 2099 (Read 8802 times)

Nemesis · « **on:** February 10, 2012, 12:23:34 pm »

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ITV Studios America and HDFILMS announced plans for a reimagining of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's famed franchise of the 1970s, then called Space: 1999.

Sirgod · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2012, 01:44:56 pm »

Interesting. I did like the old one with Landau (sp?) as a kid growing up. And while the physics of such a thing is laughable, It made for a good yarn or two.

Stephen

FA Frey XC · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2012, 07:14:31 pm »

OMFG ~!!!!!!!

*armpumps*

YES YES YES YES !!!!!!!

Regards,

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2012, 07:50:30 pm »

Aw, yeah. Sure, it needs a little "reimagining" for today's audience. Probably more than most franchises, based on an overly fantastical premise of the moon being blasted away from the Earths orbit and traveling how fast? Encountering new planets each week... Hmmm. Still, it'd be great to see the Eagle's fly again!

Don Karnage · « **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2012, 08:43:54 pm »

might be cool, but if you look at Knight Rider, it was a bad remake of a good show.

Panzergranate · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2012, 01:22:42 pm »

It had decent theme music in series 1 & 2. Why they changed to something totally crap for series 3 baffles most people. Actually series 3 never explained where or what happened to most of the original cast who were mysteriously replaced by newer faces.

I have the original technical spec for the Eagles dating back to the 1970's....

Propulsion was by nuclear fission reaction using Plutonium fuel pellets. Maximum speed was 0.05c though in the opening episode of series 3 an Eagle was fitted with additional engines to give 0.15c.

Shielding was by magnetic fields and forward object deflecting sweeps.

The filming technology and techniques used for space craft flight later went on to be used in Star Wars. Space 1999 pioneered computer controlled camera movements to give the illusion that it was the model that was flying.

Some of the plots in Space 1999 episodes were "recycled" in Star Trek TNG.

Sirgod · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2012, 05:11:30 pm »

The only big concern I have, is it is by the same peeps who did the Bionic woman (which I did like kinda), and 'V'. But I am still excited about this show. Panzer , that is awesome that you have that.

I remember reading a fan fic, years and years ago, that was about the loss of the moon, and the terror planet Earth went through, given the lack of it's pull. No idea where I saw it , or if it is even on the web, but I'll try and find it, once I get over this damn Head cold.

Stephen

TAnimaL · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2012, 05:34:54 pm »

I'm going to take this announcement with a very big grain of salt - the only bit of news out there is that above press release on "Hollywood reporter"; at the very least it'll be years until we see this I bet. And while I share the concern over comparisons to the redo of "V," it'll really depend on who the company gets to produce it. Then again, the guy spearheading this, Jace Hall, is mostly a videogame producer... but had nothing to do with "Bionic Woman, 2007."

Interestingly, the name "Space: 2099" was used by a fan/professional who was "enhancing" the episodes, recutting them to make them move faster and to take out now-outdated references to the year 1999, moving it up a century. His site for this http://www.space2099.com:80/space-2099-tes#!__space-2099-tes is now connected to his push for a sequel series, http://www.space2099.com/legacy#!__legacy, but there's nothing on his page (or the ITV site) that links his project with the HDFilms remake.

And a small factual error above - there were only 2 seasons ("series" to you Brits) of 24 eps each. Wouldn't want someone out there looking for something that didn't exist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999

While some of the FX people from 1999 did work on "Alien" and "Empire Strikes back," they used wildly different filmmaking techiniques; "1999" using very old-school technique and not the motion cameras used by ILM in Star Wars. Although I've read the original Millenium Falcon was too similar to the Eagle for Lucas, who had a new model built.

Completely different studios, production companies, writing staff, working 12+ years later.... Any similarities between 1999 and TNG are coincidental at best. Wasn't it Plato who said there were only like 9 plots to all stories? Mebbe even less in scifi

FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #8 on:** February 16, 2012, 05:59:20 pm »

I would rather have a UFO reboot.

Nemesis · « **Reply #9 on:** February 16, 2012, 06:53:57 pm »

Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on February 16, 2012, 05:59:20 pm

I would rather have a UFO reboot.

Given that Space 1999 was supposed to be a continuation of UFO you could get both in one package.

FPF-Tobin Dax · « **Reply #10 on:** February 17, 2012, 06:24:14 am »

Quote from: Nemesis on February 16, 2012, 06:53:57 pm

Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on February 16, 2012, 05:59:20 pm
I would rather have a UFO reboot.

Given that Space 1999 was supposed to be a continuation of UFO you could get both in one package.

Um, no. It just benefitted from the never produced second run of UFO.

Space: 1999 owes much of the visual design to pre-production work for the never-made second series of UFO, which would have been set primarily on the Moon and featured a more extensive Moonbase.

TAnimaL · « **Reply #11 on:** February 17, 2012, 01:32:21 pm »

Quote from: Nemesis on February 16, 2012, 06:53:57 pm

Quote from: FPF-Tobin Dax on February 16, 2012, 05:59:20 pm
I would rather have a UFO reboot.

Given that Space 1999 was supposed to be a continuation of UFO you could get both in one package.

Now that you mention it... a reboot of UFO rings a bell. After a wee search...

There was a attempt at a reboot in 1996 that whithered on the vine. Someone is reportedly working on one now, a planned set of movies to restart it, with the apparent blessings of Anderson.
http://ufo-themovie.com/shado/

I'd expect to see this before a reboot of 1999, IF it happens. (A big if there.)

Panzergranate · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2012, 10:07:32 am »

Julian Gollop's legendary computer game "UFO - Enemy Unknown", or as it was labelled in the US and Canada, "X-COM - Enemy Unknown" was totally inspired by the UFO TV Show. The modern remake of X-COM is due out this year.

Plot theme pretty much the same.... Secret UN funded organisation fighting alien incursions and conquest of Earth.... operating inside a varying budget...... keeping the UN members happy.... Researching and learning about the aliens then thwarting their operations....

PC World readers voted it the best ever computer game that has ever appeared so far a few years ago. Not bad for a PC game released in 1990.

If you've never played the game you will not understand why. It is now free to download under the title "X-COM Gold" as a version modified to run on Windows Xtra Problems, Vista and Windows 7.

Don Karnage · « **Reply #13 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:16:41 am »

I never fully understand the series UFO. Who where the aliens and what did they wanted?

We can get our finger cross so that the new version of Space 1999 will be good.

Nemesis · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2012, 07:03:11 pm »

I only have the vaguest memories of this series but Wikipedia has an article that may clarify things for you Don.

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