Well, from what I’ve read, they haven’t agreed to suspend anything. They’ve said they no longer need to test the bomb and missiles (and there are reasons why, for example, they are no longer using their test site, as mentioned elsewhere in the comments). That may be simply true, as well - they now feel confident in…

We’ve been here before. As the Guardian newspaper put it back in 2015:

“But Valve will want to see a ROI.”

Not only were there the two pilots made for the official remake (which I guess got grafted into one, which is the version floating around? I can’t bear to watch it), there were also abominations like Homeboys in Outer Space, which was also clearly an attempt to do an American version of Red Dwarf. The Hitchhikers…

Yeah, I saw at least part of it, but it didn’t seem to really capture the spirit of the original - they seemed too focused on the live aspect, which felt a bit gimmicky.

Presumably it’s still on - it’s not unusual to not hear anything about a show in the early stages of development for a year (or two, or...).

The Eleventh Hour series (UK and then US) seemed like an attempt to do an off-brand remake.

I believe the new NBC Witchblade series is still on track.

They’ve been trying to remake Blake’s 7 for the last 18 years, so there’s obviously some agreement on that one. (Last I heard, Syfy had placed an order for 13 episodes, but that was... 5 years ago, so I’m guessing that didn’t happen.)

I can’t tell how serious this list is, as most of these really, really don’t need remakes. (Especially that first one - US tv has a terrible track record with misfits-in-space comedies, e.g. the US attempts to remake Red Dwarf, but also others. There essentially have been multiple attempts to recreate the show, and…

Ah... ouh.

Publisher expectations are based on milestone agreements hashed out between studio and publisher, though. Tradition dictates that studios deliberately underestimate how long it will take to hit milestones (with the expectation that they can weasel more time out of publishers) and publishers play along (with the…

I’ve actually seen “giant dwarf” in game materials before - both as comedy (a regular-sized person) and serious (a giant with dwarf proportions). The neural net is actually re-creating previously invented game monsters.

You are seriously being a dick here. Stop it. There’s no need for that, and it wasn’t warranted by the tone of the conversation.

Leaving that aside, it’s a very comic-booky comic book; lots of big fantastical elements that I can’t imagine anyone even trying on a tv budget. The existing comic book tv shows try to avoid being comic-booky because of that and go for “grounded and gritty” or “normal world with some comic book elements.” Flash is…

I love the comic book, but I don’t see how this could be any good. The comic is gloriously comic-booky - chock-full of four-color characters who are part of their world (and the world itself reflects that and has a character all its own as a result). I just don’t see how you pare that down for a TV budget/scale and…

I think it’s because:

“AT-ATs have this huge and menacing feel to them—totally iconic.”

With some regularity, I find out that some movie that came out is based on a comic book I’d never heard of. In this case I just wonder why they couldn’t have found better material to use as a basis...

I can sort of understand where they’re coming from - that a comic is obscure isn’t, by itself, a fatal flaw - most of Marvel’s line-up wasn’t too well known, and Guardian of the Galaxy, for example, was pretty obscure. And maybe they’re right and there’s just an insatiable hunger for all things comic-book right now,…