I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
There was this late 90s show called Sliders where this team travels to different parallel Earths with different histories. I would like to see that rebooted.
Best thing about a Sliders reboot is we could have one cameo per classic character, showing us where they finally landed. And then just continue on with the new cast.
That show was so good and then the network started fucking with it and ruined it. It’s almost unbelievable how bad it actually got, it’s comical, like they were trying to ruin a show.
I tried so hard to follow it as a kid. It got so confusing. But I loved it.
I didn’t really understand how TV worked back then, and I just hated that the Sliders crew couldn’t get back home
I would love to see a good reboot of Sliders. That was the show that got me started on the internet. The Scifi channel used to advertise their chatrooms on commercials and I would go to the library to chat with other Scifi channel nerds. Good times.
Lots of early 2000’s Scifi channel shows deserve a reboot
Eureka
Warehouse 13
Dresden Files
Librarian franchise (technically movies, but still)
Legend of Earthsea
Sanctuary
Just so many shows that either didn’t get the budget/attention they deserved, or were killed by the writer’s strike.
Sounds like the movie Parallels. Doesn’t have the most satisfying ending in the world but I always thought that it would make a good TV show, sounds like it already existed
Jumper, great film, lots of material already written.
Great point! I enjoyed the movie, but not as much as I would have enjoyed a movie that respected the book, more.
A one or two season mini series would be amazing, and really wouldn’t even cost much to make.
I always thought that every 30 years they should reboot back to the future. No connection to the original in terms of production team or cast. The writer and director can’t be old enough to have many memories of the time (Zemeckis and Gale were both 4 in 1955)
Just someone doing their own take on “teenager goes back in time and meets their parents as teenagers”
See how the “past” of 30 years ago compares to the “present” of the previous version
Long term, that could be a really interesting experiment
Also, for anyone who missed it, because I missed it, Back to the Future has continued in animation twice - once official, and again as Rick and Morty.
Yes! And Huey Lewis and the News show up in each film to tell the teenager that their music is too loud.
Do we also remake bttf2, so you can see what people think 30 years into the future is like?
I make no prescriptions beyond the first. No objection if they do, but i think “what will the near future look like” is more common and therefore less interesting
Too depressing and a whole other genre.
I seem to remember that bttf has some kind of binding agreement or such that someone from the og movies put into place that they can’t/won’t reboot it.
We did get the adventure game from telltale. Which was pretty good. (Did a lot of stuff with the storyline and it had og cast doing voices).
Since 2016, I’ve wanted a Back To The Future remake just to have a scene where Doc Brown disbelieves Donald Trump is president like the original had him disbelieve Ronald Reagan was president
IMO Stargate could use a reboot. I know a new series is in the works, and that this is supposedly a continuation rather than a reboot. But honestly I think I would prefer a clean reboot. I think this for two main reasons - contemporary relevance and power creep.
Stargate was unique in that it was a sci fi setting brought into our world. It’s not the enlightened 24th century humans of Star Trek seeking out new civilizations and going where no one has gone before. It’s some random US Air Force officers in our world today. People who could be your next door neighbor are visiting space aliens and fighting for the survival of humanity, and you’re completely oblivious. And as the series went on, the post-9/11 environment definitely was reflected in the Stargate world as well. So many of its themes explored anxieties of that era.
But now? Too much time has passed. The technology introduced by the events of the show would have percolated out into wider society and had such an impact that the Stargate world and our world don’t really resemble our own anymore. Maybe the new series will make it work. But that show was such a thing of its time, I think a complete reimagining would be the best way to bring it into the present.
Second, simple narrative power creep. As the story advances, humanity gathers artifacts and technologies. Now, one very cool difference between Stargate and Star Trek is that Stargate actually remembered its lore. In Star Trek, the ship’s doctor or chief engineer will invent a miraculous new technology or medical treatment, inventions that should have massive world-shifting implications…and then be promptly forgotten about. In one episode of TNG they discover a transporter effect that turns adults into children. Yet no one is later seen using transporters as a fountain of youth. In Stargate, the teams discover alien artifacts, meet and make alien allies, vanquish alien foes, etc. The official standing orders of the whole operation are to go through the gate and acquire new technology. And those technologies show up later in the show! Over the course of the show, humanity slowly grows from contemporary humans to a galactic-level power having acquired the complete technological and historical records of two of the most powerful races to have ever existed. They’re defeating literal gods at the end of SG1.
It was an amazing journey to go along. Hell, I grew up with that story. It was an epic journey to go down. Yet, it’s hard to see where you could credibly go from there. The power levels were already ridiculous at the end.
I would like to see a completely new SG1. In this setting, the Stargate program is started not in 1992, but in 2026. (Hell, you could canonically make it an alternate reality. Inter-reality travel was canonically established. So there would still be a way to do cameos of characters from previous series. Hell, feel free to really shake it up. Who says the aliens they meet out in the stars have to be exactly the same as in the original show? Alternate reality. Alternate history. Alternate aliens. This would allow the show to have a sense of genuine mystery even among those who watched the previous series. And it being an entirely alternate version of the creation of the SGC would allow a story to be told that better reflects our current times.
I’ll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, “Reboot”.
How about Max Payne. Those game mechanics have never been copied or revisited. Which is crazy to me.
Spore. I mean, such an ambitious game that was completely hampered by the technology of the time. And never revisited ever again.
Also… Night rider.
What about Neverwinter Nights? 😁
Maybe EARTHWORM JIM with new 3D photorealistic graphics.
Haha reminded me of this
Not a particular franchise, but I miss parody movies like Hot Shots or Airplane. Barring one of those being remade, I’d settle for a reboot of Tremors.
Akiva shaffer just remade naked gun
Quite true, and I did enjoy it. I’m hopeful that its moderate success review-wise will mean others like it will get made (perhaps scifi parodies or spy film parodies).
That was a sequel, though
My 10 year old and I just watched airplane! And started top secret this weekend.
The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!
Johnny was fucking hilarious, by far the funniest character. I could imagine the stuff he’d be in today if he didn’t pass away.
Oh and tremors 1 and 2 are in my top 20 favs.
“Bad news. The fog is getting thicker.”
“And Leon’s getting LARGER!”
There’s a new Scary Movie coming, so… yay?
I wasn’t really psyched about it tbh, plus I’m not really into horror in general so the references would be lost on me anyways.
The Venture Bros. The world building was massive for a show that started out as a Jonny Quest parody complete with supervillains/heroes, spies, politics between these groups, a deep history spanning over a century and mysterious characters that hinted at a deeper story. They were planning to do an arc using a Magneto analog voiced by Matt Berry and how he was dethroned by David Bowie. The entire series was written by two guys so it’s likely the reboot’s quality would still be great.
The neverending story has not lived up to its name
Space Ghost
From coast to coast?
“Moltar!?!?!?!?!?. Get off the internet!”
Gritty or camp?
Oh yes! I would watch the shit out of a Gritty Space Ghost movie. That’s an opening night theater ticket purchase, for me.
Pretty sure there was a dark comic book series
Oh cool. I’ll look for that. Thank you.
Babylon 5.
I miss black and white. Also I would like to play something like viva piñata.
I’ve wanted a vr black and white since Oculus first took off. Change view by pulling and pushing the world around.
There are a few god games for VR like Townsmen and Deism.
I’ve tried and they both felt really unpolished
Such a great movie. I saw it in the theatre.
I hope you wore some pants if you wanted to see it in the theatre…
