It's the latest trend. Take something that worked as a self contained 2 hour movie and make a TV show with multiple seasons out of it.

There's Westworld coming out later this year, and the latest announcement is The Warriors, which will be produced by the Russo brothers, the guys behind Winter Soldier and Civil War. Not to mention others like Limitless or Lethal Weapon.

I really don't know what to think of this. On one hand I hate that so many big new shows seem to be an adaptation of something else, but on the other I do like the way serialized television can flesh out characters and plots.

On the bright side, I try to remember how even though I hated Gosford Park and Amelie Poulain, Downton Abbey and Pushing Daisies were inspired by and/or had the same creator as the movie and I loved those shows. So maybe it will all turn out good?


P.S.: I know The Warriors was based on a book, but I bet the show is more a remake of the movie than a re-adaptation of the novel,

Also, From Dusk till Dawn, 12 Monkeys and Rush Hour were made into TV series as well.

I'm imagining a meeting somewhere in Hollywood where a bunch of writers/producers are sitting around discussing the next classic (or not so classic in the case of Cabin Fever) movie to remake. They have gotten the hint that people don't like remakes of their favorite films and don't really care about remakes of obscure films they never saw to begin with. They tried making movies based on old TV shows and that didn't play out too well. Remakes of foriegn films has also been played out, as have comic book movies and those based on books for teens. So these Hollywood folks have found themselves in the rare state of actually having to think up some new ideas all on their own, which is where they dug down into their deepest creative thoughts and decided to remake movies into TV shows.

well the warriors game was able to flesh out the whole movie a lot more and introduce new characters
so a tv series of it could work

assuming its not 7 seasons of 26 episodes each
but more like 2 seasons of 6 episodes

I already had a meltdown here over this done to the superb Malcolm McDowell/David Warner movie Time After Time.

It's all just another example of how out of ideas, and more importantly how afraid of actually taking a risk with making something enitrely original everyone in the movie/TV industry seems to be. They're running out of tv shows to revive or reboot, so let's take movies and water them down into TV shows.

Latest Trend XD

Not quite.

MASH
9 to 5
Ferris Bueller
Private Benjamin
Alien Nation
My Big Fat Greek Life
Planet of the Apes
War of the Worlds
Highlander

its a rehash then because thats what hollywood does best
rehashing shit with 30 year intervalls ( eg 3D and scifi )

They're not running out of TV shows to reboot, you forgot they're making MacGyver, and they still have Renegade left to go for when they're truly desperate.

I don't mean this strictly as a rant, like I said there were movies I didn't like that inspired TV shows I did like, and for what it's worth I do think Westworld looks good.

I'd like to say it's the difference between fleshing out the story and characters in a serialized format, and spinning its wheels in place with an episodic format. But to be honest Pushing Daisies was episodic and I thought it was great.

Maybe it's about exploring the interesting setting and premise in depth by revisiting it multiple times under different circunstances, instead of just applying it to a police procedural like they did with Lucifer or, so I hear, Limitless. Then again Life on Mars was about police work, and Pushing Daisies had them investigating a murder every episode and those were great.

Maybe there are no rules? Or maybe Pushing Daisies was just the exception to all of them?

I do have that initial aversion to them knowing that they are remakes, but I don't want to, there are good ones and bad ones, that's why I said I feel conflicted in my original post. Considering there's like 20 of those in production simultaneously now, I think they've gone into full trend mode.

Also, out of the ones you listed I only knew MASH and Highlander to have TV shows.

That's because out of that list only three were any good: MASH, Highlander, and Alien Nation.

OH, I FORGOT: Buffy. Not good, but another movie turned into a show.

I don't think that was based on any movie, so I don't see what it's got to do with the subject matter.

Anyway, I just want original stuff. New ideas. Yes, sometimes we get something awesome like Fury Road or Ash vs Evil Dead, but overall I'm just sick of how much of todays movies/TV is just rehashing old stuff in one form or another.

And Westworld is HBO. It's going to be just another boring, overblown production with a lot of sex and violence. The only thing HBO knows how to do is generate headlines about how "that last episode was so shocking OMG you guys!" Fuck them and the robot horse they rode in on.

I'm waiting for Behind The Green Door: The Series.

That reminds me of another: Emmanuel

Of note- Highlander and Alien Nation were not movies remade as TV shows, but sequels to the movies (with some retcons in place to make it work) the same would go for Stargate, Ash vs Evil Dead and I belive there was even a Starman sereis, though I've never seen it. I do think that approach is a a little better than the "remake" one. At least it means that it's going to be a new story, not the same one watered down to last 7 seasons.

It was heavily and openly inspired by Amelie Poulain, so it's not an official remake or adaptation but it has just as much in common with that movie as a lot of the recent batch of remakes do with theirs.

And considering HBO made The Wire and Game of Thrones, two of the best TV shows of all time, things are looking good for Westworld ;D

...

...

...

I'm sorry, what?

No. No. Fuck this. And everything.

I can't. I can't. I'm out. I think my brain just collapsed.

MY BRAIN HURTS!