Comments on: Babylon 5’s Straczynski to Write Forbidden Planet Movie http://www.scificool.com/babylon-5s-straczynski-to-write-forbidden-planet-movie/ The Latest Science Fiction Movie, TV, and Comic Book news. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:26:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bernie - UK http://www.scificool.com/babylon-5s-straczynski-to-write-forbidden-planet-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-5719 Bernie - UK Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:05:21 +0000 http://www.scificool.com/?p=2737#comment-5719 This film must be important to JMS. He has already taken us there. In several episodes of "Babylon 5" Zathras guided the characters down to see the "Great Machine" embedded in the planet Epsilon Eridani III. This is the planet which the Babylon station orbited. The resemblance of the "Great Machine" to the Krell Technology seen in forbidden planet is very clear. All the key scifi films from the 50s and 60s are now being remade, e.g. War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still - just to name two. There is no one who I would rather see undertake the remake. JMS cares deeply about his stories and the characters he creates. Why does it need to be a remake? Why not a sequel? The Krell could be found on another planet about to take the step which destroyed them on their home planet. This way we could at least find out why the doors were that odd shape. This film must be important to JMS. He has already taken us there. In several episodes of “Babylon 5″ Zathras guided the characters down to see the “Great Machine” embedded in the planet Epsilon Eridani III. This is the planet which the Babylon station orbited. The resemblance of the “Great Machine” to the Krell Technology seen in forbidden planet is very clear.

All the key scifi films from the 50s and 60s are now being remade, e.g. War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still – just to name two. There is no one who I would rather see undertake the remake. JMS cares deeply about his stories and the characters he creates.

Why does it need to be a remake? Why not a sequel? The Krell could be found on another planet about to take the step which destroyed them on their home planet. This way we could at least find out why the doors were that odd shape.

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