I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
Sam and Max freelance police, comics or cartoons or games I’m in for whatever. Monkey island and day of the tentacle too from the same era adventure games those were great and the monkey island reboot and late sequel were fun too.
I did enjoy the recent Scrubs reboot.
Good to hear. It had slipped my mind
Its lost a lot of its magic, and the janitor isnt there, but its a lot better than I expected it to be. Its certainly better than the not-scrubs season that shouldn’t have been
Also the KotH one was pretty good.
Whazzat?
King of the Hill.
The problem is not « what to reboot » it is How to reboot.
Just turn it off and on again.
I wish. I think the update have broken it
The world needs more Gex.
Bubsy 4D looks like a great game. Would love to see a Gex reboot like that.
The Expanse
The show didn’t cover the Laconia story line, and given the time that passes before the final three books, we’re coming up on the perfect time to get the same cast back to do it.
The last few books are, in my view, the most compelling part of an already superb story.
Isn’t the time skip in the books like 20-30 years? its a while to wait until the actors have aged that much. I’d love to see it though.
Aging 20-30 years in that future should be portrayed as ~10-15 years of aging in our timeline. People (esp. Inners) are far more long-lived thanks to advanced pharmaceuticals. See the coroner’s bit about life expectancies in S1.
Yes, but you certainly don’t need to and wouldn’t want to wait that long. You risk lower interest, retirements, loss of acting ability through death or injury, etc. You can convincingly age adults pretty soon. I think they could start filming now or easily within the next 5 years.
Nice try, Hollywood.
Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.
There’s a new Scary Movie coming, so… yay?
I wasn’t really psyched about it tbh, plus I’m not really into horror in general so the references would be lost on me anyways.
Akiva shaffer just remade naked gun
Quite true, and I did enjoy it. I’m hopeful that its moderate success review-wise will mean others like it will get made (perhaps scifi parodies or spy film parodies).
That was a sequel, though
My 10 year old and I just watched airplane! And started top secret this weekend.
The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!
Johnny was fucking hilarious, by far the funniest actor. I could imagine the stuff he’d be in today if he didn’t pass away.
Oh and tremors 1 and 2 are in my top 20 favs.
“Bad news. The fog is getting thicker.”
“And Leon’s getting LARGER!”
I’m still waiting for Mindhunter, but without Fincher, I don’t know if it will ever be the same.
Space Ghost
“Moltar!?!?!?!?!?. Get off the internet!”
Gritty or camp?
Oh yes! I would watch the shit out of a Gritty Space Ghost movie. That’s an opening night theater ticket purchase, for me.
Pretty sure there was a dark comic book series
From coast to coast?
In the 90s jn the uk UK on weekend mornings you got classic US TV shows but in black and white (presumably as part of an old licensing agreement).
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, The Invaders, and so on.
Land Of The Giants is the only one of those that hasn’t had a similar concept done in more recent years. That I know of.
Such a great movie. I saw it in the theatre.
I hope you wore some pants if you wanted to see it in the theatre…
There was a Captain Planet parody with Don Cheadle like 15 years ago which was very much like The Boys + Captain Planet. I think that could actually work well now and have a more mature tone of Captain Planet who is like Homelander.
I saw that series a few weeks ago and I didn’t like it. “Captain Planet starts killing” is a great premise, and I really liked it in the episode of Rick and Morty where Morty dates Planetina until she starts murdering coal miners.
But in the Cheadle version, he’s just an asshole for no reason. I don’t think Captain Planet is the right character to use for a “corrupting influence of power” story unless you’re going to do a very nuanced critique of Soviet ideals.
I mean Homelander is also an asshole for no reason, but that story works, because he’s a capitalist and an abuse victim. The story makes sense. It’s telling us that capitalism and superheroes are incompatible. But what’s Cheadle Planet telling us? That environmentalism and superheroes are incompatible? I don’t believe that story. I have an easier time believing that environmentalism and pacifism are incompatible, like in Rick and Morty. But I don’t think environmentalism and being a good person are incompatible.
I think we should reboot Arthur (PBS)
But, and get this, make it a gritty realist drama about Arthur the Aardvark coming to terms with the death of a loved one
And it would have to be 18+ of course.
And the finale should have an avengers team up of all the classic PBS characters, to beat up Mickey Mouse in a fistfight. No holds barred of course.
Final scene will be Arthur walking away without looking back as all that the series represented is destroyed systematically by reboot after reboot destroying all value from all entertainment and nothing original being made, and then a nuke goes off, and there’s a cameo from SUPERMAN, MR ROGERS AND THE GREEN MEANIE
If you want video games, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToeJam_%26_Earl_in_Panic_on_Funkotron was really great and funny.
Teen Titans original would be my go to.
They attempted a reboot that didn’t hold the the water because it didn’t follow the main storyline, or the main personalities. Honestly the fact they used the original voice actors in it was just a slap to the face to the fanbase.
If they rebooted it properly that could defo take off.
the hbo series, they barely did anything in those 4 seasons, the animated ones were more entertaining, at least with the movies too.
The problem with the reboot wasn’t that it was bad or didn’t follow storylines, was that it was made for a different audience than the original show and/or comics and then forgot to tell that old audience. Watching it from the outside, it was hilarious and well written.
I personally didn’t like the humor in it but, I agree with your statement that it was made for a diff audience without letting legacy fans know.
