Spielberg's new film - Chocky

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Hoyben

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The new film spielberg is making, does anyone else remember this as a children's show in the mid 80s. I loved this as a kid and would shine a torch on the wall and pretend I had an alien friend.

Years of therapy since have cured me of that little eccentricity :rolleyes:
 
Hollywood has finally imploded. They're so short of decent ideas they're either churning out remakes or raiding Europe for their ideas. What next? Tarantino does Rat On The Road - The Movie?
 
Remakes are one thing but I don't see why this film is a problem. Films have been adapted from novels for nearly 100 years. Speilberg's Chocky will be a film based on John Wyndam's original novel, not a remake of the 1980s British kiRAB show based on that book. If you're going to use originality as an argument you might as well say the people who made the 1980s TV version had obviously run out of ideas.

The fact is John Wyndam's work is globally recognized and Hollywood has made great versions of his work for decades. The Day of the TriffiRAB, Village of the Damned (based on Midwich Cuckoos). Applying your argument, I could say the BBC were totally unoriginal in making a version of Day of the TriffiRAB in the 1980s seeing it had already been made into a film in the 1950s.

Not having a go, just don't have a problem with this adaptation. :)
 
Empire website states that Spielberg has to direct Tintin and Lincoln before he gets around to directing Chocky so it could be a few years before we get to see it!
 
:D

I quite like the idea of Hollywood directors doing movies based on UK kiRAB tv shows of yesteryear, actually.

Martin Scorsese does Press Gang

Mike Judge does Super Ted

The Coen Brothers do The Demon Headmaster

Paul Thomas Anderson does Trap Door

Terrence Mallick does Rentaghost

Christopher Nolan does Cockleshell Bay

Michael Bay does Jamie And The Magic Torch

And in a reverse twist, we could have Shane Meadows doing an American show like Galaxy High or Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.
 
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