Red Dwarf

@ durial, no i refuseimacate to spellificateorise your name properatically. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

actually Australia is the cheapest place (that is civilised <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>) to shoot a film, why do you think they made the matrix in sydney? They also made parts of Star wars epsd1 and possibly bits of episde 2 here <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

that would be because of all the sand... <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> visit http://www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs

Spin my Nipple-Nuts and send me to Alaska &quot;A TopGun through and through&quot;

Mmm, you are probably right. The pound is still worth much more than the Australian dollar, which would of course make filming in Aus. viable. I wonder what the plot will be? Anyone hear any rumours?

Something along the lines of a big red space ship, a long way from Earth... <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Not a clue <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> visit http://www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs

I´m not even going to respond to that one, Zone <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

Too late <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> visit http://www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs Edited by - Zone on 1/21/2004 5:35:00 AM

Well at least <i>someone </i> got the joke <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. By the way, wasn´t Danny John Jules (Cat) in Blade 2, or am I seeing things? I wonder how he managed to get cast in role so different from the comedy roles that which he is known for?

He was indeed. I was watching the film and kept seeing him and thinking of Red Dwarf... I wasn´t sure until the credits though. visit http://www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs

I really REALLY hope that a Red Dwarf film is never made. the last series was soooooo unfunny even though it looked the best of all. I strongly suspect that a film will take RD to a new nadir of dullness. Lets just remember it as it was - funny. In fact Id rather forget the last 2 series, with the occasional highpoint naturally. Trust me, it would honk as a film. Totally the wrong medium. Britain has a woeful history of transferring successful tv comedy series to cinema, they pretty much all universally stink. its incredibly difficult for writers to expand out of the 1/2hr primetime format into sustaining interest and humour level for 90mins or more, no matter how talented they are. Very few manage do it, and if Grant and Naylor go ahead will be for the money alone. Sorry to p*ss on your parade, boys, but it peaked a long time ago and has been going downbank ever since. I wouldn´t even bother going to see it a t the flix even if it was ever made, which it won´t be. if you don´t believe me, look at hugely successful and classic British comedy shows like Morecambe and Wise, superbly written, then performed by a master of comic timing. Their films utterly suck though, embarassingly bad. Tony Hancock - could not master cinema and neither could his writers who otherwise were supremos. Dad´s Army, superb sseries, rubbish film. Mony Python is diffferent because it never followed the set sitcom/comedy show format and its surrealism and silliness was always too much fpr the standard time slot, so the move to film was a lot more successful as well a shavingt he advantage of Terry Gilliam behind the camera. Re Dwarf for all its humour and talent was an extension of the old comedy show format (1/2hr primetime Beeb 2) in a traditional ongoing series arc. I absolutely guarantee that as a film it would not work and you´d hardly raise a smile. But it would look good, I spose. Film and television are hugley different media and rarely translate well. for a start, TV has more close ups, more interior shots and simply lacks the scale and scope of cinema. having said that, tv gives you more time to develop characterisation and you dont need or expect stunning visuals. plus especially with comedy, as Ive said above the writers can fill a 1/2 hr time window with loads of gags buyilding up to a big final gag, but more than an hour is a long time to wait. thats why comedy/dramas became so popular, because they combine both and neither the gags or the drama is worn out before the end. and if it gets made abroad? I dread to think..

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>and if it gets made abroad? I dread to think.. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Fair points I suppose. I first heard about the possibility of a film as the last series came to a close [I quite liked it though and nothing much since until this thread, I don´t think it´ll get made anyway. visit http://www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs

What a Guy <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> &quot;A TopGun through and through&quot;

I am a little worried that the film may not capture the humour and the spirit of the series, however if the movie is done well, it will attract a whole new audience. Still, I am also a little dubious at to whether or not they will go through with the film. I don´t see it as a terribly good idea, because I feel that they maybe running out of ideas and thus, the film will be poor.

So much would depend on where they took it from, i.e. which point in time? Would they carry on from where the last series finished, would it start at a point somewhere in the middle or not be connected to a particular series at all, just a stand alone with the same characters. visit http://www.civ3.1bigcommunity.com for all your civ3 needs

True. I presume that they would set it after the latest episode in the series. That way, there would be a sense of continuity for fans.

Also, it can´t really happen before the start of the series´, that just wouldn´t work, a stand alone would probably be the easiest to write but would be the least satisfying for fans, writing it into the middle would be tricky as they´re all sort of linked already anyway. Is suppose you could have one involving the rescuing of Kryten from the asteroid - inbetween 2 and 3. At the end would be the easiest to write for fan satisfaction, the trouble with all of these, as already mentioned, is satisfying the fans :p My gap year in Borneo: http://mysite.freserve.com/slops_in_borneo

i´d just like to commend you folks for staying ON topic for 7 pages *claps*

Why thank you (takes opourtunity to go OFF topic <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) Most of it´s on topic, even if it did stray from time to time. At least we always got back on topic. My gap year in Borneo: http://mysite.freserve.com/slops_in_borneo