"UFO" movie to star Joshua Jackson
David
Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
By MICHAEL FLEMING
"Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
Jackson will star as Paul Foster, a test pilot who joins S.H.A.D.O.
(Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization), a covert org built
under a Hollywood studio that defends Earth against a race of aliens
who have been abducting humans and using the body parts. The series
was a cult hit in the '70s.
Pic is produced by Henri M. Kessler and Avi Haas, who have a
first-look deal with the Robert Evans Co.
Graztner, the visual effects supervisor on films ranging from the
Martin Scorsese-directed "Shutter Island" to "Iron Man," was set last
summer to make his feature directing debut on a film that its
producers said is aiming for a spring start in the U.K.
"Character development is the most critical part of 'UFO,' and
Joshua's terrific talent and range is exactly what I need to convey
the inner conflict of the character of Paul Foster," Gratzner said.
Rights for the Gerry Anderson-created series were optioned from ITV
Global, and the script was written by Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek.
rwgibson13
I hope they keep the cheesy purple wigs for the Moonbase chicks :-)
RWG (and, of course, Straker has to be a grade A asshole)
peachy ashie passion
> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>
> Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
> 'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
> By MICHAEL FLEMING
>
> "Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
> version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
> effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
Yay! I love for Pacey to have work!
David Johnston
>http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>
>Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
>'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
>By MICHAEL FLEMING
>
>"Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
>version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
>effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
>
Was that ever run in the United States? It was a good series.
rwgibson13
Syndicated in the early '70's. At least I think it was syndicated. I
was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
details :-)
It was released on DVD a couple of years back. Talk about a series
"of the times," as they used to say. Everyone smoked (even on the
Moonbase!) and Straker had a machine in his office that dispensed
booze just like the modern day soda pop fountain drink machines you
see at fast food joints. Seriously, there were nozzles with "Bourbon,"
"Gin," "Vodka," "Rum," etc above each and you put your glass
underneath one and pressed the button!
Yep, those Andersons were years ahead of the curve when it came to
futuristic vices. The whole Moonbase/Intercepter thing, not so much.
RWG (but, man, those purple wigs and the gaudy eye make-up totally
rocked! :-)
Ian Galbraith
> I hope they keep the cheesy purple wigs for the Moonbase chicks :-)
>
> RWG (and, of course, Straker has to be a grade A asshole)
I'd hope Straker is the major character. Agree on the wigs as well :-).
--
"You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the
wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it
feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We
drink because it's what men do." - Mad Men
Michael Black
It definitely ran in Canada.
Michael
shawn
wrote:
Yes, it ran here in the USA. I know that the SciFi channel ran it, but
I'm pretty sure I saw it elsewhere before that. Maybe it was on a
local PBS station? Ah.. I see from the Wiki entry,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_%28TV_series%29 , that two years
after the first 26 episodes were made they syndicated it in the USA.
So I may have seen it on a PBS station or one of the local
independents at the time.
J.J. O'Shea
(in article
<300aae4f-7c56-4aa6...@m33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>):
> On Nov 23, 5:47ï¿œpm, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:16 -0500, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>>
>>> Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
>>> 'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
>>> By MICHAEL FLEMING
>>
>>> "Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
>>> version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
>>> effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
>>
>> Was that ever run in the United States? ￜIt was a good series. ￜ
>
> Syndicated in the early '70's. At least I think it was syndicated. I
> was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
> details :-)
I've got the DVD set. Impressive model work. Some of it borrowed from the
Andersons' puppet shows, though.
>
> It was released on DVD a couple of years back. Talk about a series
> "of the times," as they used to say. Everyone smoked (even on the
> Moonbase!) and Straker had a machine in his office that dispensed
> booze just like the modern day soda pop fountain drink machines you
> see at fast food joints. Seriously, there were nozzles with "Bourbon,"
> "Gin," "Vodka," "Rum," etc above each and you put your glass
> underneath one and pressed the button!
That was there for the guests and for Straker's #2, Alec whatssname. Straker
himself didn't drink. Major plot point as to why. Alec drank enough to make
up for Straker, though.
Straker did smoke enough to cause global warming all by himself, though. And
the voice-print thingie was hidden in the ciggie box on his desk.
>
> Yep, those Andersons were years ahead of the curve when it came to
> futuristic vices. The whole Moonbase/Intercepter thing, not so much.
>
> RWG (but, man, those purple wigs and the gaudy eye make-up totally
> rocked! :-)
>
And the silver jumpsuits. The _tight_ silver jumpsuits. And the fishnet
jumpsuits on the sub crews... including the girls. I want to see Skydiver
redone only this time with a suitable _girl_ as Captain Carlin.
--
email to oshea dot j dot j at gmail dot com.
David Johnston
wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, David Johnston wrote:
Yeah but Canada also had that series about the private eye and his
ghost partner.
rwgibson13
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:41 -0500, rwgibson13 wrote
> (in article
>
>
> > On Nov 23, 5:47 pm, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:16 -0500, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>
> >>> Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
> >>> 'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
> >>> By MICHAEL FLEMING
>
> >>> "Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
> >>> version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
> >>> effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
>
>
> > was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
> > details :-)
>
> I've got the DVD set. Impressive model work. Some of it borrowed from the
> Andersons' puppet shows, though.
>
>
>
> > It was released on DVD a couple of years back. Talk about a series
> > "of the times," as they used to say. Everyone smoked (even on the
> > Moonbase!) and Straker had a machine in his office that dispensed
> > booze just like the modern day soda pop fountain drink machines you
> > see at fast food joints. Seriously, there were nozzles with "Bourbon,"
> > "Gin," "Vodka," "Rum," etc above each and you put your glass
> > underneath one and pressed the button!
>
> That was there for the guests and for Straker's #2, Alec whatssname. Straker
> himself didn't drink. Major plot point as to why. Alec drank enough to make
> up for Straker, though.
>
> Straker did smoke enough to cause global warming all by himself, though. And
> the voice-print thingie was hidden in the ciggie box on his desk.
The smoking was almost comical, really. It was worse in some episodes
than in others, but man...
"I need to get down to medical to find out the status of the alien
autopsy."
"Want a smoke first?"
"Sure."
"Did you have a chance to look at the Henson file yet?"
"Yes, I did. Can I borrow a light?"
"You bet."
Straker smokes his cig and catches the elevator to Medical.
"Hey, Doctor, what's the status on the autopsy?"
"I was going to finish it after I have a smoke. You want one?"
"Sure."
"Oh, here's the file on Lt. Fisher you wanted."
"Thanks. Can I borrow your lighter?"
Straker checks out the file. "When you finish the autopsy, give me a
call."
"Certainly."
Straker catches the elevator back to his office and calls up Paul.
"Paul, I need you to stop by my office the moment you get in."
"Sure, Ed. Right after I finish my smoke..."
Well, okay, it wasn't THAT bad, but certainly seemed like it :-)
> > Yep, those Andersons were years ahead of the curve when it came to
> > futuristic vices. The whole Moonbase/Intercepter thing, not so much.
>
> > RWG (but, man, those purple wigs and the gaudy eye make-up totally
> > rocked! :-)
>
> And the silver jumpsuits. The _tight_ silver jumpsuits. And the fishnet
> jumpsuits on the sub crews... including the girls. I want to see Skydiver
> redone only this time with a suitable _girl_ as Captain Carlin.
Weren't the male fishnet uniforms on the submarine kind of cutoff at
the midrift? Really kind of homoerotic for the times IIRC...
RWG (certainly confusing to those of us kids who were used to seeing
the Anderson kiddie puppet stuff :-)
Jack Bohn
>On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:41 -0500, rwgibson13 wrote
>(in article
><300aae4f-7c56-4aa6...@m33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>):
>
>>
>> Syndicated in the early '70's. At least I think it was syndicated. I
>> was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
>> details :-)
I remember the "diving into the laundry chute" maneuver! Added
to the playground repertoire by squeezing through the ladder
rungs of playground equipment before flying off.
>I've got the DVD set. Impressive model work. Some of it borrowed from the
>Andersons' puppet shows, though.
I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced,
airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle, alas a bit beyond
reality, even if you discount the airplane doing Harrier Jump Jet
takeoffs as mere technological bravura). "Countdown" actually
uses puppets to show astronauts doing an orbital EVA.
--
-Jack
J.J. O'Shea
(in article
<34faf6c3-c2af-471c...@r31g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>):
> On Nov 23, 10:57ï¿œpm, J.J. O'Shea <try.not...@but.see.sig> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:41 -0500, rwgibson13 wrote
>> (in article
>> <300aae4f-7c56-4aa6-9d2e-24ed4307a...@m33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>):
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 23, 5:47ï¿œpm, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:16 -0500, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>>
>>>>> Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
>>>>> 'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
>>>>> By MICHAEL FLEMING
>>
>>>>> "Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
>>>>> version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
>>>>> effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
>>
>>>> Was that ever run in the United States? ￜIt was a good series. ￜ
>>
>>> Syndicated in the early '70's. ï¿œAt least I think it was syndicated. ï¿œI
>>> was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
>>> details :-)
>>
>> I've got the DVD set. Impressive model work. Some of it borrowed from the
>> Andersons' puppet shows, though.
>>
>>
>>
>>> It was released on DVD a couple of years back. ï¿œTalk about a series
>>> "of the times," as they used to say. ￜ Everyone smoked (even on the
You're not exaggerating by much...
>
>>> Yep, those Andersons were years ahead of the curve when it came to
>>> futuristic vices. The whole Moonbase/Intercepter thing, not so much.
>>
>>> RWG (but, man, those purple wigs and the gaudy eye make-up totally
>>> rocked! :-)
>>
>> And the silver jumpsuits. The _tight_ silver jumpsuits. And the fishnet
>> jumpsuits on the sub crews... including the girls. I want to see Skydiver
>> redone only this time with a suitable _girl_ as Captain Carlin.
>
> Weren't the male fishnet uniforms on the submarine kind of cutoff at
> the midrift? Really kind of homoerotic for the times IIRC...
Not cut-off. Just very wide gaps in the fishnets. And the guys were all Big
He Men, except for Captain Carlin, who was kinda weedy... but had that scar
and that grim expression and never missed.
>
> RWG (certainly confusing to those of us kids who were used to seeing
> the Anderson kiddie puppet stuff :-)
>
I was about 10 when I first saw it. I was much more interested in the
hardware. Skydiver and the Interceptors and the Mobiles. I saw it in black
and white so I didn't know about the purple wigs until years later, by which
time I was more interested in the silver jumpsuits. Ah. Lef-tenant Ellis. Ah.
She could have given me orders any time...
rwgibson13
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:45:38 -0500, rwgibson13 wrote
> (in article
>
>
> > RWG (certainly confusing to those of us kids who were used to seeing
> > the Anderson kiddie puppet stuff :-)
>
> I was about 10 when I first saw it. I was much more interested in the
> hardware. Skydiver and the Interceptors and the Mobiles. I saw it in black
> and white so I didn't know about the purple wigs until years later, by which
> time I was more interested in the silver jumpsuits. Ah. Lef-tenant Ellis. Ah.
> She could have given me orders any time...
I liked most of the hardware okay, but even as a kid I thought the
whole concept of the Interceptors was just really lame. They only had
three and each carried only one silly missile each (although each
missile looked large enough to blow up the freakin' Moonbase :-)
And don't get me started on that silly car with the wacky doors that
opened up. Even as a kid, I imagined half of the SHADO employees
probably had gashes and bumps and bruises on their heads from running
into the things getting in or out of it...
RWG (but my hormones were just starting to kick in, so I liked the
silver suits just fine, thankyouverymuch :-)
yerfriend
> On Nov 23, 5:47 pm, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:16 -0500, David <dimla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>
> > >Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
> > >'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
> > >By MICHAEL FLEMING
>
> > >"Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
> > >version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
> > >effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
>
> > Was that ever run in the United States? It was a good series.
>
> Syndicated in the early '70's. At least I think it was syndicated. I
> was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
> details :-)
There weren't any details IIRC. I was a teenager interested in
possible
extraterrestrial visits at time, and this has to be one of the most
brain-dead
shows ever put on the moronatron. All I remember is an extremely
cheap
looking Brit show with little flying sauces getting shot down all the
time,
with the actors calling them "yoofoes."
Anim8rFSK
Jack Bohn <jack...@bright.net> wrote:
> J.J. O'Shea wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:58:41 -0500, rwgibson13 wrote
> >(in article
> ><300aae4f-7c56-4aa6...@m33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>):
> >
> >>
> >> Syndicated in the early '70's. At least I think it was syndicated. I
> >> was old enough to remember it, but too young to remember the
> >> details :-)
>
> I remember the "diving into the laundry chute" maneuver! Added
> to the playground repertoire by squeezing through the ladder
> rungs of playground equipment before flying off.
>
> >I've got the DVD set. Impressive model work. Some of it borrowed from the
> >Andersons' puppet shows, though.
>
> I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced,
> airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle
I hated that thing; it was so different than the rest of the SHADO
designs, it should have been used as a alien ship.
--
Stargate Universe SGU: It puts the "U" in "SUCKS"!
It's the show 'Defiling Gravity' would be if DG had more regulars,
fewer abortions, worse writers, and no budget for lighting.
Remember, you can't spell "disgust" without SGU!
Jerry Brown
wrote:
<snip>
>Skydiver had at least one girl in the crew, in the fishnet shirt.
>But the real prize was Ayesha at SHADO control.
s/Ayesha/Ayshea/
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/photogallery/liftoff/liftoff.jpg>
<http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7wB2gcr8lA/SdMzwFIa-fI/AAAAAAAAEc0/PWvaX1EjPbw/s400/lift+off+with+ayshea+brough.jpg>
The above are from "Life Off", the pop show she presented about the
same time as she was acting in UFO.
Jerry Brown
--
A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)
Michael Black
But there's the classic episode, indeed the only one I remember, when they
send a probe to the alien planet, and get pictures of the planet. But,
something goes wrong, they get the pictures but no indication of how big,
the yardstick or whatever they sent along to show size got lost along the
way. So they have information that can't properly be interpreted.
Years later that episode was mentioned by a friend who I'd not even known
when the show was on, he brought it into the conversation as an example.
I seem to recall the same episode being mentioned in a similar way in a
newsgroup post somewhere in the past decade, again as an example of not
having proper measurements unless you know the measure.
Michael
Jerry Brown
<je...@jwbrown.co.uk.RemoveThisBitToReply> wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:14:45 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net>
>wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>>Skydiver had at least one girl in the crew, in the fishnet shirt.
>
>>But the real prize was Ayesha at SHADO control.
>
>s/Ayesha/Ayshea/
>
><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/photogallery/liftoff/liftoff.jpg>
><http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7wB2gcr8lA/SdMzwFIa-fI/AAAAAAAAEc0/PWvaX1EjPbw/s400/lift+off+with+ayshea+brough.jpg>
>The above are from "Life Off", the pop show she presented about the
>same time as she was acting in UFO.
...and, of course, in correcting the above mistake, I managed to make
one myself:
s/Life/Lift/
shawn
<je...@jwbrown.co.uk.RemoveThisBitToReply> wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:01:55 +0000, Jerry Brown
><je...@jwbrown.co.uk.RemoveThisBitToReply> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:14:45 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>>Skydiver had at least one girl in the crew, in the fishnet shirt.
>>
>>>But the real prize was Ayesha at SHADO control.
>>
>>s/Ayesha/Ayshea/
>>
>><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/photogallery/liftoff/liftoff.jpg>
>><http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A7wB2gcr8lA/SdMzwFIa-fI/AAAAAAAAEc0/PWvaX1EjPbw/s400/lift+off+with+ayshea+brough.jpg>
>>The above are from "Life Off", the pop show she presented about the
>>same time as she was acting in UFO.
>
>...and, of course, in correcting the above mistake, I managed to make
>one myself:
>
>s/Life/Lift/
It's okay. I don't know why but my brain fixed it for you and I saw it
as Lift Off. ;) Guess I knew it had to be something like that to tie
it in to "UFO."
Anim8rFSK
Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
But you missed the punchline! They show Straker photographs and he says
'see, that's a coastline' or 'that looks like a spaceport' and then they
zoom back and he's looking at extreme close ups of Lt. Ellis' lovely
naked thigh. They flew her down from the Moon and put her in civvies
and non purple hair because presumeably you couldn't do this with an
Earth girl. :)
Ubiquitous
>"Fringe" star Joshua Jackson will topline "UFO," the feature film
>version of the British TV series that will be directed by visual
>effects wiz Matthew Gratzner.
WHY?
--
It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
Ubiquitous
wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:13 -0800 (PST), rwgibson13 wrote:
>> I hope they keep the cheesy purple wigs for the Moonbase chicks :-)
>>
>> RWG (and, of course, Straker has to be a grade A asshole)
>
>I'd hope Straker is the major character. Agree on the wigs as well :-).
And the submariners wearing fishnet shirts!
Ubiquitous
wrote:
>Was that ever run in the United States? It was a good series.
I vaugely remember seeing it on TV as a child, but was too young
to understand it (I recall being scared of the ep with the blind
old lady, not realizing it was this show).
SciFiChannel played it for awhile when they actually played sci-fi
shows.
Ubiquitous
>Weren't the male fishnet uniforms on the submarine kind of cutoff at
>the midrift? Really kind of homoerotic for the times IIRC...
That's putting it mildly!
Ubiquitous
>But there's the classic episode, indeed the only one I remember, when
>they send a probe to the alien planet, and get pictures of the planet.
>But, something goes wrong, they get the pictures but no indication of
>how big, the yardstick or whatever they sent along to show size got
>lost along the way. So they have information that can't properly be
>interpreted.
I thought that was ridiculous! Did someone honestly think they might be
looking at extreme closeups of an alien's leg?
Michael Black
> In article <pm7mg5hcl9mb0rad5...@4ax.com>, da...@block.net
> wrote:
>
>> Was that ever run in the United States? It was a good series.
>
> I vaugely remember seeing it on TV as a child, but was too young
> to understand it (I recall being scared of the ep with the blind
> old lady, not realizing it was this show).
>
I think what happened is that so many of us that had watched Thunderbirds
and Captain Scarlett and Joe 90 and the rest, recognized Gerry Anderson
and tuned in, only to find it was different from the previous series
(in more ways than no marionettes).
Michael
Ubiquitous
Well, the acting was rather wooden, if memory serves...
J.J. O'Shea
(in article <iv2dnQPUOpiYYIzW...@giganews.com>):
> et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> da...@block.net wrote:
>
>>>> Was that ever run in the United States? It was a good series.
>>>
>>> I vaugely remember seeing it on TV as a child, but was too young
>>> to understand it (I recall being scared of the ep with the blind
>>> old lady, not realizing it was this show).
>>
>> I think what happened is that so many of us that had watched
>> Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett and Joe 90 and the rest, recognized
>> Gerry Anderson and tuned in, only to find it was different from the
>> previous series (in more ways than no marionettes).
>
> Well, the acting was rather wooden, if memory serves...
>
>
That was Space:1999. Especially Barbra Bain. Lady Penelope would have done a
better job.
Anim8rFSK
I will never understand why BB (nice lady in real life btw) was an
acclaimed actress, winning emmys!
Ubiquitous
wrote:
>web...@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
>>m...@privacy.net wrote:
>>>On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:13 -0800 (PST), rwgibson13 wrote:
>>>> I hope they keep the cheesy purple wigs for the Moonbase chicks :-)
>>>> RWG (and, of course, Straker has to be a grade A asshole)
>>>
>>>I'd hope Straker is the major character.
>>>Agree on the wigs as well :-).
>>
>>And the submariners wearing fishnet shirts!
>
>No, string vests.
>
>"String, string, string, string / everybody loves string"
Six of one, half dozen the other. The result is the same.
Ubiquitous
wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:48:05 -0500, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> et...@ncf.ca wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>> da...@block.net wrote:
>>>>> Was that ever run in the United States? It was a good series.
>>>>
>>>> I vaugely remember seeing it on TV as a child, but was too young
>>>> to understand it (I recall being scared of the ep with the blind
>>>> old lady, not realizing it was this show).
>>>
>>> I think what happened is that so many of us that had watched
>>> Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett and Joe 90 and the rest,
>>> recognized Gerry Anderson and tuned in, only to find it was
>>> different from the previous series (in more ways than no
>>> marionettes).
>>
>> Well, the acting was rather wooden, if memory serves...
>
>That was Space:1999. Especially Barbra Bain. Lady Penelope would have
>done a better job.
I was referring to Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett, and Joe 90, but
it applies to Space 1999 as well.
Jack Bohn
>http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>
>Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
>'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
>By MICHAEL FLEMING
I kept the date in the above post to note it took nearly a month
for the obvious to hit me, which it did while watching the
confused episode, "The Cat With Ten Lives."
This is being remade because it is perfect for...
an allegory for our War on Terrorism!
*sigh*
I can't help wishing it back into development hell.
--
-Jack
Anim8rFSK
Jack Bohn <jack...@bright.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:16 -0500, David wrote:
>
> >http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
> >
> >Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
> >'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
> >By MICHAEL FLEMING
>
> I kept the date in the above post to note it took nearly a month
> for the obvious to hit me, which it did while watching the
> confused episode, "The Cat With Ten Lives."
>
> This is being remade because it is perfect for...
>
> an allegory for our War on Terrorism!
I think you can make an equal case for illegal immigration.
>
>
> *sigh*
> I can't help wishing it back into development hell.
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David Johnston
wrote:
>In article <v5hui593dou13gkc8...@4ax.com>,
> Jack Bohn <jack...@bright.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:37:16 -0500, David wrote:
>>
>> >http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118011722.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1
>> >
>> >Joshua Jackson's captain of 'UFO'
>> >'Fringe' actor set for adaptation of Brit TV series
>> >By MICHAEL FLEMING
>>
>> I kept the date in the above post to note it took nearly a month
>> for the obvious to hit me, which it did while watching the
>> confused episode, "The Cat With Ten Lives."
>>
>> This is being remade because it is perfect for...
>>
>> an allegory for our War on Terrorism!
>
>I think you can make an equal case for illegal immigration.
How? If they keep the same basic setup, the attackers aren't moving
in.
Anim8rFSK
David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
Well, they're entering illegally, stealing parts, and sending them home.
I'm not sure if we ever knew if the aliens had anybody here full time or
not, but I thought they did.
Dan Lanciani
IIRC they had an underwater base. But the really interesting revelation
(which I think might have occurred in the above mentioned episode) was
that the "aliens" weren't merely humanoid with stolen parts; they were
actually human. It's been so long that I'm having trouble separating my
own speculations from those of the characters but I think the implication
was that they might indeed have been "moving in" in a very nasty way...
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com
Jack Bohn
>In article <ANIM8Rfsk-276EB...@news.dc1.easynews.com>, ANIM...@cox.net (Anim8rFSK) writes:
>| In article <9j2ui5t217fdkmome...@4ax.com>,
>|
>| > On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:47:42 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net>
>| > wrote:
>| >
>| > >In article <v5hui593dou13gkc8...@4ax.com>,
>| > > Jack Bohn <jack...@bright.net> wrote:
>| > >>
>| > >> It took nearly a month
>| > >> for the obvious to hit me, which it did while watching the
>| > >> confused episode, "The Cat With Ten Lives."
>| > >>
>| > >> This is being remade because it is perfect for...
>| > >>
>| > >> an allegory for our War on Terrorism!
>| > >
>| > >I think you can make an equal case for illegal immigration.
>|
>| Well, they're entering illegally, stealing parts, and sending them home.
>| I'm not sure if we ever knew if the aliens had anybody here full time or
>| not, but I thought they did.
>
>IIRC they had an underwater base. But the really interesting revelation
>(which I think might have occurred in the above mentioned episode) was
>that the "aliens" weren't merely humanoid with stolen parts; they were
>actually human. It's been so long that I'm having trouble separating my
>own speculations from those of the characters but I think the implication
>was that they might indeed have been "moving in" in a very nasty way...
The revelation I got from the episode was that the youfoe pilots
were human, the aliens -we know don't know *what* they are- burnt
out the personality of the captured humans, and filled them with
their own programming, as they did with the cat of the title.
This might be colored by my own speculations; I want aliens that
are more alien, and I may be projecting this back to a production
of the '70s.
--
-Jack
Anim8rFSK
Jack Bohn <jack...@bright.net> wrote:
Hmm. The raids seemed to be to just grab spare organs for the pilots;
I'm not sure why they'd bother to do that if they could hollow you out
and put in a fresh personality.
>
> This might be colored by my own speculations; I want aliens that
> are more alien, and I may be projecting this back to a production
> of the '70s.
I don't remember it that clearly.