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‘Star Trek: Picard’ Showrunner Terry Matalas Tackling Remake of 1980s Sci-Fi Movie ‘Enemy Mine’ (Exclusive)
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Why would he get more work? Did they not see Picard?
The last season of Picard managed to turn things around. Yeah it was fan service, but it felt like tasteful fan service (mostly).
I think if he were to get top notch creature effects artists to do practical effects work on the alien world and save the CG stuff for wide shots and space stuff, I think people would respect that.
Have you not seen Enemy Mine?
Yeah, it's not like he could make it worse.
Picard was akin to Disco for me. Lots of kernals of goodness just tossed aside for the next shiney thing.
Unoriginal people and companies are going to look for every possible franchise and brand to revive and milk as we hit peak capitalism and before they start crumbling.
Why remake movies that are already good?
Because they are out of ideas?
They can update the production quality. The story is good; the special effects and costumes are hella dated and cheesy though. The TNG episode homage to it looks better.
I know there was an Enterprise episode that was almost the same, I forget the TNG one though. Do you remember the name/ep number?
Shaka... When the walls fell. 😩
(I don't remember the episode name; but it's that one)
Ahh yeah darmok! One of my favorites. Its definitely got inspiration from it
I thought the poster meant S3E07 "The Enemy", but seems it's S5E02 "Darmok".
They are more likely referring to Dawn (s2e13 Enterprise). The plot is similar to Enemy Mine and Zhokaan kind of looks like Lou Gossett Jr.
Yeah this is the only one I could remember that was a true homage to it.
Wasn't there also a battle star Galactica episode as well?
Not sure, I really need to watch more of it. That and Stargate, im behind on
Found it. It was the last episode of of the 1980 spinoff.
You know, I'd almost rather they just cgi the hell out of the original.
There's no way they'll do the same script, and that's the part that worked. The cast carried the right tone, and no amount of remaking is going to top that part. So just update any flawed effects and release it as a special event.
Mirab, with sails unfurled.
I just re-watched that film. It’s kinda hokey by today’s moviemaking standards. However, it’s a fantastic story and a good script. Nobody could do better than Louis Gossett jr’s (who I didn’t know just passed away this March?! Damn.) Jeriba, and Quaid’s character changing from xenophobic racist to the one who helps bring peace to the war.
They made a huge book, The Enemy Papers that was a great read, too.
Anyway, I wouldn’t expect a remake to either be a) any good, or b) follow the old movie. Like everything they remake the new director and scriptwriters put their own take on things. And unfortunately when you insist on a new vision for something it means you’re deliberately diverging from what the essence of the original was all about. So no, I wouldn’t expect the remake to be any good. Probably big budget on sets, but skip good character development and writing.