TV Shows To The Big Screen.

[BloodyWolverine]

With so many rumors of tv shows being made into films and what not. Miami Vice being a possible big hit with Farrell and Foxx. Ofcourse there are quitea few stinker movies based off of good shows. Dukes Of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch. To name a couple.

I thought S.W.A.T was the better tv show made into a movie. Shaft with Sam Jackson wans't too bad either. The point to this thread is There are 3 tv shows rumored to being made into a movie. Some are just rumors as old as two years. But what TV show would you most like to see adapted to the big screen out of these three choices.

The A-Team.

The Equalizer.

Night Rider.

My three favorite 80's tv hsows. I'd hate for them to wreck them but i'd like to see the shows have a crack back. If anything but a shout back to a time when tv shows were better then they are today.

 

[JLBats]

With so many rumors of tv shows being made into films and what not. Miami Vice being a possible big hit with Farrell and Foxx. Ofcourse there are quitea few stinker movies based off of good shows. Dukes Of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch. To name a couple.

I thought S.W.A.T was the better tv show made into a movie. Shaft with Sam Jackson wans't too bad either. The point to this thread is There are 3 tv shows rumored to being made into a movie. Some are just rumors as old as two years. But what TV show would you most like to see adapted to the big screen out of these three choices.

The A-Team.

The Equalizer.

Night Rider.

My three favorite 80's tv hsows. I'd hate for them to wreck them but i'd like to see the shows have a crack back. If anything but a shout back to a time when tv shows were better then they are today.

You're kidding, right?

We're currently in a golden age of TV, featuring good, serialised storylines and cinematic direction.

You just listed a tv show featuring Mr. T hamming it up, a show I've never even heard of, and a show about a talking car. Perhaps golden tributes to cheese, but not exactly to brilliant storytelling.

If you had said this about music or movies, I'd agree. But overall, TV has gotten progressively better over time.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

You're kidding, right?

We're currently in a golden age of TV, featuring good, serialised storylines and cinematic direction.

You just listed a tv show featuring Mr. T hamming it up, a show I've never even heard of, and a show about a talking car. Perhaps golden tributes to cheese, but not exactly to brilliant storytelling.

If you had said this about music or movies, I'd agree. But overall, TV has gotten progressively better over time.

Where have you been just hatched. The Equalizer was avery popular show in the 80's. It stars Edward Woodward. But if you are young maybe you never saw really good televison. The classics are still the best in my book.
Sure CSI, Buffy, and Angel are good shows. But to me shows in the 70's and 80's sre still some of the best times in tv history.

 

[Byrd Man]

I Pity The Fool Who Don't Like the A-Team

 

[JLBats]

Where have you been just hatched. The Equalizer was avery popular show in the 80's. It stars Edward Woodward. But if you are young maybe you never saw really good televison. The classics are still the best in my book.
Sure CSI, Buffy, and Angel are good shows. But to me shows in the 70's and 80's sre still some of the best times in tv history.

I think you might be looking at them as good more out of nostalgia than anything.

Today, TV is gaining considerable respect and esteem thanks to more cinematic works like Six Feet Under, the Sopranos, Carnival, Deadwood, etc.

The shows you've listed are shot very much like... well, TV shows. And as far as writing goes, The A-Team and Night Rider are never going to have a book written about their thematic and philosophical tendencies. Unless you consider camp to be a philosophy.

Again, the shows you've listed are hardly bad. However, they're enjoyed on an entirely different, and perhaps less legitimate, level than TV today.

 

[The Question]

Well, TV of today is hardly something to brag about. Filled up to the gills with idiotic reality shows and prety white kids with problems dramas. But, TV has, in the past, been quite good. And has been better more recently than in the days of the A-Team.

 

[JLBats]

Well, TV of today is hardly something to brag about. Filled up to the gills with idiotic reality shows and prety white kids with problems dramas. But, TV has, in the past, been quite good. And has been better more recently than in the days of the A-Team.

Obviously there are still terrible shows around. But I'm talking about shows of quality today compared to shows of quality of yesteryear. Is there anything from the '80s that REALLY compares to HBO's output, or any of the shows that have since been influenced by HBO?

 

[Speedball]

I don't really like any of them.
I'd rather see Alias, Buffy or a newer show where the story could actually continue in the films, not just rehash the story of the TV show.

 

[The Question]

Obviously there are still terrible shows around. But I'm talking about shows of quality today compared to shows of quality of yesteryear. Is there anything from the '80s that REALLY compares to HBO's output, or any of the shows that have since been influenced by HBO?

Very true. The only show of yesteryear I can think of that was really good was the fugitive.

 

[Harlekin]

The A-Team should never, and let me make this clear, ever be made into a movie. Back in the 80s it could've worked, but not now. If it's a remake, the story's going to change and that's just ten levels of suck waiting to happen. If it's not a remake, we get these old dudes that I respect immensely, doing stuff they just shouldn't be doing anymore (seven levels of suck). Biggest problem with an A-Team movie though? It's the cast. Nobody can recast the A-Team.

Nobody.

 

[GoldGoblin]

The A-Team

 

[Superfreak]

BSG, to the big screen after running for a decade

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Ofcourse I wouldn't mind seeing Buffy or Angel into a big screen movie. Simply because the series is over and there is a fan base. The FX shows are the only ones i like besides CSI and Lost. I'm just saying i like alot of older shows better then new ones.

I however might check out Blade the series on Spike tv but i am just into action tv shows tha is all.

 

[dutchmarvel]

Knight Rider (Hasselhof,Daniels,Larson,Stu Phillips atleast)
I wrote earlyer some idea´s,with known and lesser known (lesser accepted) people.

End November 2005 there where some cast people on imdb.com,but those are removed later.
For example Jack Scalia (Red Eye/Tequila & Bonetti) whas cast as Terri Miles,The Brother of Devon and Christie Woods (The New Adventures of Robin Hood) as Dana Knight,the Daughter of Wilton Knight. Also David Hasselhoff name whas there.

From what i have seen,Miami Vice look good.

For the A-team it is look more dificult,but i think also that there can make a movie about it. I known mabey a directer who can do it. William Friedkin,the directer of Rules of Engagement.
Some other cast idea´s: Benoît Magimel (Face or Dekker) and Michael Ironside. On this moment there having a good writer,Bruce Feirstein. I wrote earlyer some other idea´s,for example:

Will Ferrel as Hannibal:

I known mabey Will Ferrel is not mabey the right Hannibal,but Hannibal must look like on what Will Ferrel look like on this picture from the movie Anchorman.

and Woody Harrelson as Face.

I also think there can make a Airwolf movie. With some crue & cast people from The Hulk (Sam Elliott for example) and also 24 and other acters from other movie´s-tv series like Ben Kingsley for example.

 

[Decypher]

Where have you been just hatched. The Equalizer was avery popular show in the 80's. It stars Edward Woodward. But if you are young maybe you never saw really good televison. The classics are still the best in my book.
Sure CSI, Buffy, and Angel are good shows. But to me shows in the 70's and 80's sre still some of the best times in tv history.

CSI blows


RESCUE ME IS WHERE ITS AT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Captain Gandalf]

Xena : Warrior Princess. Definitely.

 

[Pitbullinaskirt]

Xena : Warrior Princess. Definitely.

Are you my long lost twin? lol

Everytime I see another TV show turned into a movie I just get angrier and angrier just cause not only 1)They're ruining the image/legacy of a good TV show (most of them I heard we're terrible) but 2)All that money could of been used for my got damn Xena movie! lol I mean, think about it. If you take all the money it took to make all those crappy came-and-went type movies, we could of gotten a Xena trilogy like LotR LOL. I guess the closest I got to a Xena movie fix was Kill Bill, because she sort of reminds me of Xena, but no where near as unique.

However, if Lucy Lawless isnt playing Xena, I will go on a strike and write death threats to whomever would dare do such a foolish thing...











OK not really, but I'd be pissed lol

But if Lucy's there, the movie is properly made (story-line, true to character, etc) than I'm so there with my FanGirlie self, a T-shirt, acting a fool in the movie theater screaming "THATS MY *****!" right before its about to start (just to y'know, let everyone know who we're dealing with richea. Xena is mutha****in' gangsta!!!). Oh the possibilities And of course I'd force...I mean ask everyone I know to watch the movie.

Oh yeah, and better special effects would be nice too. But since that was never really a major thing used during the show (with the exception of the Chakram) its no big deal. Speaking of, I always thought Chakram effects they did we're damn good for what was available during that time. So imagine now? I wonder if there's room for improvement? I'd love to see that. And I know the cinemotography is going to be amazing because even a lot of episodes we're movie like. Think The Debt and Adventures in the Sin Trade )

Okay thats enough hypy Xena fan-girl action from me, lol

 

[Captain Gandalf]

^^ Last I heard Rob Tapert was trying to get the rights for a Xena movie (there was a huge battle going on as to who owns the rights) and Lucy and Renee were willing to reprise their roles, but they better hurry up or they'll be too old.
If it happens, they already have a headstart because Katherine Fugate already wrote a script for the movie (in which Xena will be ressurected almost immediately at the start of the movie).
It really should happen if only for the reason it'll fix the crappy finale of the tv-series.

 

[Pitbullinaskirt]

Yeah.

Like I've always said, it doesnt bother me that Xena died. What bothers me is why she died, and how. She didnt die to her story. She died because the powers that be wanted to do a homage to A Chinese Ghost Story. If I wanted to see that movie I'd rent it Insulting...

Also, 40,000 souls? Puh-lease. So they expect us to beleive 40,000 people lived in a single village? And of all the evil crap she's done, THATS what she is going to die for? Something that she didnt even do intentionally? The message of the show from day one was of redemption. We've seen Xena from the beginning; knowing that she can never truly make-up for what she's done, but still push herself to attone for her past misdeeds, and for no selfish reason at all -- and than so here comes the finale, out of no where (no build up??? who's this Akemi broad? what, jappa? since when? ) and its Oh Yeah, sorry, we've changed our minds. There's no way that Xena can really be redeemed. Xena can only find redemption through death. So the message is vengenace now? (Mind you, it was in self defense on Xena's part. They attacked an unarmed woman, who provoked no one ). As you can see, I still feel a little "anger" if you will, lol

Yeah. So like I said before, I dont mind her dying. She has to, she's not immortal (and that's boring). I'd hate to see her be another one of those heroes pimped of their story, having a "beginning" and an "ending" and than a whooooooole lot of "middle". That's not a story or myth, that's just greedy markeeting bull lol But I'm not sure if they should do a 'canon' movie, like a continuation of some sort. Because not all movie-goers are going to be hardcore nutballs (given most will have seen a few episodes) so they'll have no idea why/what happened prior -- which in my opinion, isnt a good idea...

 

[Captain Gandalf]

^^ Well said. Her death reminds me of another useless death : Trip Tucker in the finale of Enterprise. One of the greatest insults to Star Trek fans.

 

[tzarinna]

I never watched Equalizer but I recall it being a vngence show, hence the title and it had strong following. I can see the guy but I'm too lazy to google.

Knight Rider has a lot of nostalgia value for me, it would be good if it was dark, not funny and campy,maybe. The A-Team, hmmm not sure how that would play out that is one that folks would be in an uproar over purity I think. I enjoyed the show but I wasn't a hardcore fan.

 

[Captain Gandalf]

I wouldn't mind seeing Buffy and Angel together on the big screen either..

 

[U.S War Machine]

They need to make a Johnny Quest movie

 

[tzarinna]

They need to make a Johnny Quest movie

Yes, it doesn't get enough props

 

[Speedball]

Xena : Warrior Princess. Definitely.

OMG!
If I heard this was finally greenlight, i will jump out my chair, run outside and cheer, and cry tears of joy. Xena and Hercules are the only tv shows from the 90's that i can remember watching and LOVING every episode.