Sounds interesting. I was always more into STAR TREK and THE OUTER LIMITS back in the day, but I may have to check this out.

But . . .“Your father’s LOST IN SPACE”?

I realize that the majority of io9's readers were probably not around in the 1960s, but some of us were—and we’re not all dead yet. :)

Fun article, but the Trekkie in me has to point out the Original Series was not nearly as “utopian” as TNG and as for the Vulcans generally being pretty much all right prior to Solok, let’s not forget that Spock’s fiancee plotted to have him killed just to get out of an arranged marriage (in the very first ST episode…

There’s also the fact that, before the internet, most of us didn’t know any of this behind-the-scenes stuff, let worried about it months before the movie opened. Aside from maybe an occasional puff piece in STARLOG or FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, we found out about new genre movies when we saw the “Coming Attractions”…

50% of the movie is certainly extreme, but that’s the not case with the regards to the entire “history of reboots.”

And, yes, the internet does tend to overreact to reports of reshoots. “Oh, no! They’re doing reshoots! This movie is a train-wreck!”

They’re works-in-progress, folks. Reshoots are just part of the…

FATAL ATTRACTION. The original ending, in which the Glenn Close character committed suicide, tested terribly, so they shot a whole new ending in which she turns into a knife-wielding psycho and the movie was a huge hit. See also PRETTY WOMAN, where they added a happy ending at the last minute after the original ending…

Time to trek back to the comics shop, I guess, and hope they still have a copy.

Is this out now? I didn’t see it at the comic store yesterday.

Banner can also be glimpsed in one of the early shots, staring upwards along with War Machine and somebody else.

Gail Simon + Plastic Man? Sold!

To be fair, INSURRECTION also has a lovely soundtrack (by Jerry Goldsmith) that I’ve listened to way more times than I have ever watched the movie.

Don’t forget PARADISE, with young Diana growing on an island of bad-ass Amazons and ancient magic . . ..

I’m old enough to remember fans freaking the hell out when “Mr. Mom” was cast as Batman. Worked out fine.

I suspect that if the show lasts long enough they’ll have to branch out beyond American history just because they’ll have used up all the “fun” American history. But, in the meantime, 237 years has enough material for a season or two, especially since the first season was only sixteen episodes long.

Plus, they don’t…

See, I like that. They’ve established that there are no “do-overs” because . . . technobabble reasons, so they can’t just put right whatever gets changed, so they always return to a slightly different “present.”

Sometimes the changes are minor (there’s a new James Bond novel that was never written before), sometimes…

It was canceled, then uncanceled two days later after a huge outpouring of fannish protests. (It probably helped that it also won a USA TODAY poll on which “on-the-bubble” new series you most wanted to see renewed.)

Love this show. Been waiting impatiently for its return.

I think it also depends on the degree to which a movie version may have eclipsed the source material in the public imagination. A new adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE or HAMLET is not going to be seen as a “remake” of the previous film versions, But the likes of PLANET OF THE APES or PSYCHO or JAWS or IT’S A…

The line between “remake” and “new adaptation” can be a blurry one. A lot depends on how much imagery and inspiration the new movie takes from the some iconic film version, as opposed to the original source material.

BATES MOTEL, for instance, was clearly invoking the imagery and characterizations of Hitchcock’s…

I’m an editor. Picking nits is my job description. :)

Just to nitpick: I believe that CASABLANCA was based on an unproduced script for a stage play that was floating around, and I’m not sure that film adaptations of stage plays count as remakes, but that’s splitting hairs. Regardless of its roots, the classic movie version of CASABLANCA is so iconic and exquisite that…