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Okay, I'm not sure how I feel about this. I have posted about my love for "Flight Of The Navigator" once before. To my mind it wipes the floor with both of Spielberg's schmaltzy efforts and succeeds where both John Carpenter's efforts (Star Man) and Joe Dante's efforts (Explorers) came up short.



It turns out that Disney have started moves towards a remake. There were rumours that the writers of "Safety Not Guaranteed" were being employed to work on new Star Wars sequels, but it turns out they were actually put on the job of writing this remake. I'm really excited about "Safety Not Guaranteed", which may actually be in cinemas before the year comes to a close. The poster for "Safety Not Guaranteed" reveals that the title comes from an advert by a time traveller for potential companions on the next foray into other time periods.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473705/

Sorry, but this is absurd. This is a remake of a fantastic British tv series starring Bill Nighy, John Simm, David Morrisey, Philip Glenister, James McAvoy, Kelly MacDonald, Polly Walker, Marc Warren and Benedict Wong. The TV series was a two-parter and was gripping from beginning to end. It simply could not be improved upon. Seemingly the most sensible option for a remake would be to re-shoot the whole thing with the same awesome actors and actresses and better quality camera work.

Actually, to be honest I heard about this a long time ago when the only cast member mentioned on the imdb page was Brad Pitt. I was somewhat concerned, but slightly intrigued. In the right film Brad Pitt can be pretty good and this seemed like the right kind of film for him. Later on it looked like the project had been abandoned. However, now it's back and apparently already released in cinemas I really have to ask: Who in the hell decided that it was a good idea to put Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in the leading roles? Are they absolutely blooming crazy?

So anyway, let's just recap on things there.

British TV series (as I write this the imdb rating is 8.7):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362192/

Summary of the cast... )

-- Yeah, the remake is so very doomed to be a dissapointment.

Here's a trailer for the original tv series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL9AMuVvqMI

Now check out the trailer for the movie remake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH6SAvCD_kM

If you fancy it, look at this clip from the original tv series (don't worry about spoilers, it's all actually fairly early on in the story and it's actually being used by the BBC as an advert for the DVD):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4U4AFLCmo

What do you think?

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