The Mission unacceptable motion picture are still kicking box - office ass , at least judging from Ghost Protocol ’s IMAX limited opening . This is kind of a miracle , since most movies based on goggle box shows shine two-dimensional . ( Like the Ralph Fiennes Avengers , lose in Space , Land of the Lost , Thunderbirds , Bewitched , etc . ) Even when a TV - show - rick - motion picture rules ( Serenity ) it does n’t always hit bragging .
Some television set show are just well suited to movie version than others . Here are 10 classic science fiction and fantasy shows that not only rule , but could sway the cinemas . Oh , and by “ classic , ” we mostly mean “ no longer on the air . ” Hence , no Supernatural or Fringe .
Disclaimer : Whenever we do a list like this , it ’s always worth replicate : We wish Hollywood would do more original project that are n’t based on any exist properties . Ormore Quran adjustment . Still , if Hollywood insists on recycling , these are some options we ’d really quite wish to see . With that pronounce , here ’s the tilt …
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1 . The Tick Ben Edlund won our hearts with this unearthly superhero spoof , which take off as a weird feature in a comic book computer memory ’s newssheet before becoming a TV cartoon and then a live - action show . The Tick is as valorous as he is ego - incognizant , and his hapless chum Arthur has to taste and keep him on the proper path , as the city echoes with call of “ Spoooooon ! ” With superhero movies multiplying like radioactive bunnies , the time is proper for our greatest — and silliest — torpedo to come back once again .
2 . Blake ’s 7 This dirt chintzy British TV serial publication about revolutionaries and criminals fight an evil empire in place deserve a new term of a contract on life , somehow . ( There was talking of a newfangled TV revival , but it appears to have fallen through . ) Cynical , cruel , dystopian and swashbuckling , this show still throb — if you could see past the horrible particular effect and occasional over - play . A movie version could distill a tidy sum of what made B7 a classic into one potent jerking of awesomeness , and the role of the misanthropic dweeb Avon could be some golden histrion ’s delineate moment .
3 . Star Trek : Deep Space Nine Okay , so it ’s not as if we ’re stick out from a want of Star Trek film , and J.J. Abrams is already feverishly at study on another one . But some of us are still smarting with the unfairness that The Next Generation got to have four exercises in the legal philosophy of diminishing return , and Deep Space Nine find … bupkus at the movies . And Deep Space Nine was really something exceptional — we ’ve had a lot of conversations about it lately , as people remember just how great this show could be . We desire to see what happen with the Dominion and Cardassia and Bajor after the show ended … and just what the heck was going on with Obi Wan Sisko .
4 . The Jetsons The first Flintstones unrecorded - activity moviemade a quazillion dollars , even though nobody really like it . Of course , that was a unlike era , but you could still think a live - action or CG - animated Jetsons scoring as a fun summertime kids ’ movie . Go for a slightly light whole step than wretched Me , and maybe actually get Steve Carrell to play George Jetson . It could be a fascinating , fun salmagundi of retro - futurism and actual futurism , celebrating the optimism of our parents and grandparent while suggest that the future tense could still be just that lustrous .
5 . The Greatest American Hero There ’s beentalkof a Greatest American Heromoviefor years now , but it seems to be proceed nowhere . Too bad — in the right hands , the story of a well - meaning instructor who becomes a bumbling superhero could be total boxful spot gold . Similar to The Tick , this could be a playfulness counterpoison to the excessively self - serious tribute to comic volume icons of all our youth . And like Blake ’s 7 , this is a TV show that has n’t aged all that well , so a fresh movie version could actually be an melioration in some way . If it ’s done rightfield , which is always the big question .
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6 . Mork and Mindy Another great comedy , with a unproblematic premise : a wacky alien comes and live on among us , and befriends one lucky Earth woman . We can get aporno parodyof this show — I have the screener DVD but have n’t been able to lend myself to watch it — so why ca n’t we get an genuine movie ? It could be a zany romcom and a story of first striking rolled into one , with lot of room for alien slapstick and fingerbreadth - drinking . There ’s something about falling in erotic love with an alien that we take more of — particularly if it ’s actually funny .
7 . Space : 1999 This is another show I ’ve had lot of conversations about lately . It ’s such a silly conception — the Moon has an blowup so powerful , it propels our only natural satellite to a caboodle of other planets in speedy succession . And yet , there ’s something wonderful about the way this show blended revulsion , suspense and space opera . It was blank repulsion before Alien . You could go a few ways with a movie edition — for representative , you could make it a disaster movie , as the people on the Moonbase battle to get the Moon back into orbit before Earth is trashed . Or you could make it just a base on an asteroid or out planetoid , that falls into a wormhole . But heck , you could also just go for it , and have the Moon somehow become our first faster - than - light vessel , and show the gang of the Moonbase confront something trippy and mad and ultra - scary . All while knowing that back on Earth , tons and stacks of masses are believably dead .
8 . Xena : Warrior Princess We necessitate more Xena in our sprightliness . But a movie version should be establish of the Xena of the first three seasons , not so much the charade that followed . What was groovy about this show was the direction it coalesce Clash of the Titans - dash zany mythology with a pop - savvy self - awareness . And Xena herself has a great backstory that could be brought to the foreground — she begin out as a baddie , and then reform and move around facilitate the great unwashed to make amends . She ’s like a mythological , distaff Batman . And carbon monoxide gas - Lord Sam Raimi could direct ! Tell me you would n’t look out the heck out of that .
9 . Max Headroom This show last came out on DVD lately — minus some of the original British stuff — and it ’s well-to-do to see thatwe’re live in the universe Max Headroom presage . This show was so prescient , it kinda pain . But even if this show has kind of come true , there ’s still load of room for a movie that explore the notion of a newsman who gets a smart - alecky cyber alter ego . And all of the stuff about corporation controlling the news , and journalism becoming more utmost and stunt - drive ? That might just fall a chord with audiences today . Max could be bigger than ever , if the veracious people made a movie version .
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10 . Jericho Maybe we ’re cheating by including such a recent show — but we really require more of our post - apocalyptic Kansas incubus , especially given how insane the short second time of year was . This show was evolving from a folksy story of small - town people come together and trying to survive after a atomic holocaust , into a tense undercover agent thriller about corporate psychopath and correct - wing extremist trying to take over our commonwealth , and there was still plenty of story left to say about what happened next . We know , there are funnies and stuff — but we want to see the explosions and civil war happening in live action . You could craft a movie version so that hoi polloi who never saw the show would n’t even need to know there ’d been a show — but it could also satisfy those of us who ’ve been await years for a sequel .
We ’re barely scratching the surface here — for exercise , this leaning leaves out Bionic Woman and Babylon 5 . What are the classic TV express you ’d like to see get a movie ?
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