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   In article , "catpandaddy"  wrote:   
      
   > "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   > news:yourname-1109110959420001@203-118-184-228.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz...   
   > > In article , "catpandaddy"    
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   > >> news:j4fmd4$dp1$1@dont-email.me...   
   > >> >   
   > >> >  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.   
      
   I really meant a new book "remaking" / "ripping-off" an older book, but   
   you're right, there were and are of course also movies / TV shows that   
   "remake" books, and as always Hollyweird makes lot sof idiotic changes for   
   no real reason other than they think they know better than the original   
   author.   
      
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