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> In article , "catpandaddy"
> wrote:
>
>> "catpandaddy" wrote in message
>> news:j4fmd4$dp1$1@dont-email.me...
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>> > wrote in message
>> > news:biqrj8-0g1.ln1@librarian.sky.com...
>> >> And verily, didst David Johnston hastily babble
>> >> thusly:
>> >>> On 9/2/2011 2:07 AM, TMC wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> 2. Making Flash Gordon non-space-bound.
>> >>>> This one still makes us scratch our heads. You get to do the rights
>> >>>> of
>> >>>> one of space opera's most recognizable characters, who's famous for
>> >>>> flying around on rockets and battling against aliens in space ???
>> >>>> and
>> >>>> you never put him on a spaceship.
>> >>>
>> >>> Flash Gordon battled aliens in spaceships? News to me. Buck Rogers
>> >>> did
>> >>> a lot of spaceship stuff, but Flash was restricted to Mongo.
>> >>
>> >> Errrr... How do you think he got to mongo in the first place?
>> >> In dr zarkov's rocket ship. There was a lot of corny flying around
>> >> shooting
>> >> sparklers at each other in flash gordon. (the original buster crabbe
>> >> version)
>> >
>> > Was Flash Gordon the first tv series to be given the "Reboot" treatment
>> > by
>> > unimaginative tv execs with no original ideas?
>>
>> Sorry should have said "one of the first" series.
>
> In terms of TV shows, possibly, but there were movie "remakes" (of both
> Falsh Gordon and other ideas) LONG before that. There were also "remakes",
> or more precisely "rip-offs", of books even further back.
Books should never be done visually, just as movies should never have
novelizations made of them.
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