From: ~vi@comcast.net
"Ahroo" wrote in message
news:i7T9i.11361$4Y.9180@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net...
>>>
>>> A Xena movie without LL and ROC? Not in this dimension, losers! I
>>> trust the fans' devotion would become evident enough to an otherwise
>>> greedy film studio and face them to face facts. We don't see anyone
>>> else as Xena and Gabrielle....uh, because there just isn't anybody
>>> else.
>>
>> I don't think there are any producers that could be so stupid as to think
>> otherwise... Talk about wasting money and time if they did....
>>
> Sure they could! Look at the mess they made with doing the Avengers (with
> Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes - both good actors). Done years after the TV
> show so no way the originals could do the parts (unless we wanted to see
> Steed and Emma Peel rolling around in wheelchairs, looking for their
> missing false teeth). Just didn't work - no way the audience could relate
> to anyone else in those roles.
>
> We've had more James Bonds than fingers to count them on and the audience
> adapts and accepts; but not with a TV show that we have seen the same
> people in for perhaps a hundred or more episodes. In our minds, the
> characters and the actors who portrayed them become one. Yet that won't
> stop some movie studio from trying to cash in on a show's popularity and
> go after the nostalgia-seeking crowd - forgetting that it wasn't just the
> theme/premise of the show that we loved, but it was also the people who
> brought it to life for us that made it so special.
>
> Obviously, the studio doesn't think that there is enough audience interest
> to make doing a movie now a profitable venture. Perhaps when you consider
> that it could cost them tens - perhaps hundreds - of millions of dollars
> to make a full-length movie, they are right. But it won't surprise me if
> 10, 15, 20 years from now someone decides to do so.
>
Well, I'll be dead so I don't care.. :~(
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