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Post by timegirl on Jul 7, 2021 11:51:48 GMT
Sorry I don’t listen to ageism 😉 and Peter and Jenna have about the same age difference as Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn when they played love interests in Charade and they were sexy😊 You know... A remake of Charade to me is a bit like trying to remake Casablanca, but I can definitely see it working with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Take that as high praise. I'm actually kind of curious what a Doctor Who story riffing on the idea could look like. Side note: Audrey Hepburn's tribute to Cary Grant at the 1981 Kennedy Centre Honors is... I think one of the best I've ever seen. If not the best. It's a phenomenal speech from a phenomenal speaker. Thanks!😊 Ooh DW Charade with 12 and Clara would be interesting since you mentioned a DW riff! If it was a DW take you could do something really clever and sort of flip the roles; have it be set after 12’s mind wipe and have 12 being the one constantly questioning Clara’s identity as she would probably be using a number of aliases by that point. Either a DW take or a straight remake would well work with them! If it was a non DW remake I could see it being an event mini series the expands on the storyline further.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2021 12:00:40 GMT
You know... A remake of Charade to me is a bit like trying to remake Casablanca, but I can definitely see it working with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. Take that as high praise. I'm actually kind of curious what a Doctor Who story riffing on the idea could look like. Side note: Audrey Hepburn's tribute to Cary Grant at the 1981 Kennedy Centre Honors is... I think one of the best I've ever seen. If not the best. It's a phenomenal speech from a phenomenal speaker. Thanks!😊 Ooh DW Charade with 12 and Clara would be interesting since you mentioned a DW riff! If it was a DW take you could do something really clever and sort of flip the roles; have it be set after 12’s mind wipe and have 12 being the one constantly questioning Clara’s identity as she would probably be using a number of aliases by that point. Either a DW take or a straight remake would well work with them! If it was a non DW remake I could see it being an event mini series the expands on the storyline further. No worries! Oh, I really like the role reversal idea for a DW story. I think there's a lot you could do with that. Having the Doctor discover an old, well-regarded friend has been removed from Time and given a funeral by a species who recognise the negative space(-time) left by things taken out of the continuum. Not just killed, but erased altogether and only he remembers them. Him and, seemingly inexplicably, a handful of other associates of the "dearly departed".
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Post by timegirl on Jul 8, 2021 20:16:11 GMT
The “selfsest” elements of Loki doesn’t bother me. In reality you can’t actually fall in love with an alternate version of your self, so I am not sure why so many people are bothered by Loki and Sylvi’s romantic undertones as though “selfsest” was a controversial real life issue. People need to relax a bit. I mean I suppose if it was a real thing that you could meet an alternate version of your self and then have romantic relationship with them then I suppose there would be complicated ethics at play. Yes, it’s a little odd, kind of like if in DW, two different incarnations of the Doctor fell in love with each other, but Loki and Sylvi aren’t siblings and they are kind of cute together. Unless “selfsest” becomes a real life possibility, which is highly unlikely, I say people should just relax and enjoy themselves. I’d ship it!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2021 20:42:51 GMT
The new 'All Creatures Great and Small' series is better than the BBC series in most aspects.
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Post by timegirl on Jul 9, 2021 14:29:20 GMT
I actually think a revival of “Sherlock”, could work well if they did a big time skip and made the focus on Sherlock and Watson look after his (Watson’s) now teenage daughter who has grown up to become a rebellious amateur sleuth herself. Perhaps Watson’s daughter could have her own cases and have overlap on her Dad and Godfather’s cases. Also it would just be funny to see Sherlock and Watson trying to parent a teenage girl together. It’s a dynamic that I think would freshen the franchise up a lot and do a lot to get fans to forgive the last series! Of course you would need the right actress to play Watson’s daughter not to mention believable writing of a teenage girl detective but I think if done right I think she could be a popular addition to the cast.
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Post by timegirl on Jul 9, 2021 20:00:45 GMT
Educating Rita remake with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman but instead of the roles being played the way you think they would be Jenna plays the jaded professor and Peter plays a mature student with the thickest Glaswegian accent imaginable!😁
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Post by shutupbanks on Jul 10, 2021 1:50:40 GMT
Educating Rita remake with Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman but instead of the roles being played the way you think they would be Jenna plays the jaded professor and Peter plays a mature student with the thickest Glaswegian accent imaginable!😁 Nice Work by David Lodge sort of does this scenario: in an “industry exchange” scheme, a university sends academics into factories while factories send middle-management to universities. A middle-aged executive winds up shadowing an English lecturer and vice versa. It was also adapted for TV but I haven’t seen it.
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Post by timegirl on Jul 10, 2021 13:40:52 GMT
“Loki” is Marvel’s Doctor Who!
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jul 10, 2021 14:21:19 GMT
“Loki” is Marvel’s Doctor Who! I don't think that's all that odd, as it's been a running reference in a lot of reviews. Especially for episode 3.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 10, 2021 16:44:42 GMT
I actually think a revival of “Sherlock”, could work well if they did a big time skip and made the focus on Sherlock and Watson look after his (Watson’s) now teenage daughter It's a bit soon for that big a timeskip, but in the 1930s, the Doyle family licenced out the Sherlock properties for a stage play "The Holmeses of Baker Street", about Holmes and Watson's twentyish-year old daughters. There's a very rare novelisation, and a slightly more available short story sequel, and a much less available omnibus:
(I think they'd be better off remaking the BBC Radio series "The Rivals", transposed to modern-day, with Greg Lestrade as the viewpoint character; give each episode a separate production team, and avoid requiring Moffat and Gatiss to oversee every little bit)
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Post by grinch on Jul 10, 2021 17:08:22 GMT
I actually think a revival of “Sherlock”, could work well if they did a big time skip and made the focus on Sherlock and Watson look after his (Watson’s) now teenage daughter It's a bit soon for that big a timeskip, but in the 1930s, the Doyle family licenced out the Sherlock properties for a stage play "The Holmeses of Baker Street", about Holmes and Watson's twentyish-year old daughters. There's a very rare novelisation, and a slightly more available short story sequel, and a much less available omnibus:
(I think they'd be better off remaking the BBC Radio series "The Rivals", transposed to modern-day, with Greg Lestrade as the viewpoint character; give each episode a separate production team, and avoid requiring Moffat and Gatiss to oversee every little bit)
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind seeing Moffat and Gatiss do their own take on Thomas Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Would also help bring the character more into the public eye which would be an added bonus.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jul 10, 2021 17:26:22 GMT
It's a bit soon for that big a timeskip, but in the 1930s, the Doyle family licenced out the Sherlock properties for a stage play "The Holmeses of Baker Street", about Holmes and Watson's twentyish-year old daughters. There's a very rare novelisation, and a slightly more available short story sequel, and a much less available omnibus:
(I think they'd be better off remaking the BBC Radio series "The Rivals", transposed to modern-day, with Greg Lestrade as the viewpoint character; give each episode a separate production team, and avoid requiring Moffat and Gatiss to oversee every little bit)
To be honest, I wouldn’t mind seeing Moffat and Gatiss do their own take on Thomas Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Would also help bring the character more into the public eye which would be an added bonus. This is eerie as I was actually in early stages of developing a Carnacki pilot (never went anywhere, to be clear) that had some echoes of Sherlock about it a while back. On a similar note, another contemporary character, AJ Raffles, was going to have a new show on BBC, but it seems to have stalled. cdn.casarotto.co.uk/files/cvs/sukey-fisher.pdf?mtime=20210308113827&focal=none
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 10, 2021 18:37:29 GMT
Very interesting. There was a Rafles pilot twenty-odd years ago, but it was so poor nothing ever happened. A proper go would be worth looking at.
(I think Carnacki might be tricky. Much of the appeal of the stories comes from the use of non-steampunk ultra-modern 19th century technology, which mght be difficult to properly get across today. And haven't we already got much of the character of a modern Thomas Carnacki in Charlie Brooker's usual sign-off?*)
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Post by timegirl on Jul 12, 2021 23:13:45 GMT
The Great Mouse Detective should have been the start of either a whole movie series or spun off into a Saturday morning cartoon show. Either way I feel there is untapped potential for either adapting Sherlock Holmes books or original cases. The world and characters has a lot of charm and imagination.
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Post by timegirl on Jul 13, 2021 13:17:44 GMT
Even though I love supernatural creatures/ monsters and I love stories with a romantic element I never could get into Twilight. I started reading the first book way back when I was 14 but never finished it because the characters didn’t seem that interesting and I didn’t believe the romance at all. Ironically my mom who normally who is far more squeamish than me and doesn’t usually like horror or monsters loved Twilight and read all the books and made me come with her to see all the movies. I also know that it is or was a few years ago popular to make fun of girls and women who are into Twilight but other than some slight good natured teasing to my mom, I would never make fun of anyone who did like Twilight. As someone who has her own favorite comfort otherworldly romance stories (12 and Clara, etc.) I understand that need for escapism stories like those give.
On a related note I would like to see more supernatural romances where the characters especially the main couple feel like real people, which is a problem I had with Twilight. It would also be interesting to see more stories where the supernatural couple are slightly more mature ages (not teenagers or early twenties).
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Post by grinch on Jul 19, 2021 11:48:58 GMT
Maybe this heat is driving me a bit doolally, but I think you could do quite a serious (albeit quite tongue in cheek) remake of Inspector Gadget.
Although, now I’m saying that I suppose that’s just Robocop.
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Post by timegirl on Jul 19, 2021 13:26:17 GMT
The animated George Lucas movie musical “Strange Magic” isn’t that bad and the central love story between Marianne and the Bog King is actually really interesting and the two leads have amazing chemistry together. If there were just a few more rewrites and more focus on the central love story and it could have genuinely been a good movie.
Sidenote: What is it with me and and my love of unconventional seemingly miss matched couples who are actually equals and find they have more in common than they think and butt heads a lot and the woman is sweet and perky and affectionate but with hidden imperfections and a tough side and the man is a grumpy Scottish accented loner with a hidden heart of gold who is some kind of supernatural/otherworldly being. Yes, that description covers more fictional couples than you think it would!
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Post by timegirl on Jul 21, 2021 15:38:28 GMT
Stephen Moffat’s Jekyll is not scary at all but it is brilliant as campy horror comedy!😁
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jul 21, 2021 23:49:28 GMT
Revenge of the Sith is the only one that's really necessary story-wise in the Prequels. There's nothing important or substantial enough in Phantom or Clones that you couldn't sum up in a line or two in Sith.
Also, Altman's Popeye is a better, more charming film than given credit for.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2021 7:13:25 GMT
Revenge of the Sith is the only one that's really necessary story-wise in the Prequels. There's nothing important or substantial enough in Phantom or Clones that you couldn't sum up in a line or two in Sith. [...] On the flip side of that, while The Empire Strikes Back is a favourite, Return of the Jedi feels like the original trilogy film with the strongest thematic legacy. The dynamic between Luke and Vader by the time of Endor and those themes of a fall and redemption have turned up time and time again in Star Wars since. In various forms. It's a very strong motif.
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