Within the realm of retro science fiction cinema, “Forbidden Planet” is unanimously thought-about a Hollywood basic and ranks on the high of just about any critical checklist of seminal outer house movies. This 1956 retelling of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” proudly stands amid the corporate of different classic works like “The Factor From One other World,” “Invasion of the Physique Snatchers,” “The Conflict of the Worlds,” and “The Day the Earth Stood Nonetheless” as prime examples of that long-past Golden Age.
Of that celebrated group of Fifties sci-fi films, “Forbidden Planet” additionally stays the one one which has mercifully not acquired a Tinseltown reboot, however that is all about to alter with latest information of a Warner Bros. “revisionist” remake within the works from Eisner Award-winning comedian e book creator and screenwriter Brian Ok. Vaughan (“Y: The Final Man,” “Saga”) and seasoned producer Emma Watts.
As reported final week by Deadline, Vaughan will pen the script for an up to date tackle “Forbidden Planet” a lot to the dismay of purists who consider the fabric ought to be left untouched no matter his strong fame as a gifted storyteller.
“Forbidden Planet” was initially directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starred Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, and Anne Francis. It was loosely tailored from The Bard’s last accomplished stage play about marooned sailors on a magical island lorded over by a sorcerer named Prospero — an attention-grabbing plot that was revamped right into a grand galactic journey the place a crew from the patrol spaceship C-57D lands on the planet Altair IV to research a colony of forgotten scientists.
Warned to remain away by its genius sole survivor Dr. Morbius (Pidgeon) and his daughter Altaira (Francis), Commander John Adams (Nielsen) and Co. arrive despite the hazards to find an invisible murderous monster prowling the planet and uncover the thriller of a long-perished alien civilization who’ve left their superior know-how behind. And let’s not neglect ‘ol Robby the Robotic!
Vaughan is actually as much as the duty of composing a reliable screenplay for a “Forbidden Planet” remake. His comedian e book initiatives additionally embrace “Ex Machina,” “Runaways,” “Satisfaction of Baghdad,” and “Paper Women,” and in Hollywood, Vaughan has been connected to hit TV sequence equivalent to “Misplaced,” the place he acted as author, story editor, and producer for 3 seasons earlier than being anointed by the legendary Steven Spielberg to convey Stephen King’s “Beneath the Dome” to the small display screen in 2013.
However because the previous adage goes, just because one thing CAN be performed doesn’t essentially imply that it SHOULD be performed, and lots of stressed followers could be completely content material to go away “Forbidden Planet” untainted and unaltered endlessly.
Bringing her appreciable expertise with main tentpole releases whereas serving as the top of twentieth Century Fox’s and Paramount’s characteristic movie divisions on sci-fi flicks like “I, Robotic,” “Alita: Battle Angel,” “The Martian,” “Maze Runner” and “Avatar,” Watts is a powerhouse producer that might simply pull off the Herculean process of conjuring up extra Hollywood magic right here. This big-budget remake continues to be in its infancy however we’ll maintain our readers within the loop because it continues to maneuver ahead in direction of actuality.
