Cult 50s sci-fi film to be resurrected as remake and we really want to see that.
“In Hollywood, we don’t have oil, but we have ideas for remakes.” What’s better than looking for old recipes that have already been successful to ensure maximum income? Just for the year 2025, we are waiting for the remakes of Frankenstein by Guillermo Del Toro, Wolf Man par Leigh Whannell, The Running Man d’Edgar Wright, The Chronicles of Narnia par Greta Gerwig…
Well, that’s for rather exciting projects. Because remake sometimes rhymes with a huge fiasco, as the huge failure will attest The Crow by Rupert Sanders, or the remakes of RoboCop et Total Recallwhich Paul Verhoeven had severely tackled. The Warner Bros team has announced that a remake of a cult science fiction film from the 1950s is in preparationand for once, it seems quite attractive.
another sci-fi, another remake
Deadline thus revealed thata remake of the cult science fiction film Forbidden Planet (Forbidden Planet in VO) by Fred Wilcox was in gestation. The remake was entrusted to screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan, who has received the prestigious Eisner Award several times for his works Y, the Last Man, Ultimate X-Men et The Private Eye. Sa series Saga also won the Eisner and Hugo awards for best series.
The author served as producer and showrunner on the series Under the Dome (which was not, however, a success). Emma Watts, executive producer on I, Robot et Avatar will produce this remake.
Released in 1956, Forbidden Planet has become an icon of science fiction cinema. The film, whose plot is inspired by the Shakespearean work The Stormtakes place in the 23rd century. It features the crew of the C-57D ship, led by Commander John J. Adams (played by Leslie Nielsen in all seriousness and first degree, far from his performances in the saga of Is there…) who arrives on the planet Altair IV to investigate the disappearance of a previous expedition.
On the planet, the crew finds Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), survivor of a previous mission, who warns them that a mysterious entity exists on Altair IV that could pose a danger to humanity. Robotics (the character of Robby the Robot has become a pop-culture icon, whose toy versions were sold by the pallet), aliens, space exploration, place of the human being in the cosmos, Forbidden Planet addresses all these subjects since the 1950s.
This remake project of Forbidden Planet is far from the first. By the late 1990s, rumors of a new iteration of the film had begun to circulate. Then around 2005, the names of J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) and Joel Silver had been mentioned as possible pilots of the film.
Straczynski even explained that Warner was ready to finance several films exploiting the franchise, before the project was forgotten. In 2008, it was James Cameron who expressed interest in the idea of resurrecting this science fiction staple. But after creative imbroglios and dark stories of exploitation rights, the Forbidden Planet version 2000 had disappeared into thin air. The remake of Forbidden Planetunder the aegis of Brian K. Vaughan and Emma Watts, does not currently have a release window.
