Come up with a reboot you think you could do better than HollyWood can.

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

You've been chosen to make a reboot of a tv show or a movie. How it is is all up to you. You can make it an all-out reboot or a sequel. You can choose to leave out any wokness. You can choose the writers, actors, composers, etc. How could you make it so it's better than something Hollywood would make.

Little House - Based on the book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder this would more closely relate to the books. The Ingalls would be poorer, move more, and would act more like their book characters.

The Cleavers - A Leave It To Beaver reboot that would be like the Brady Bunch movie. The main characters from the original act like it's the 50s but the rest of the world is in the 21st century. Everyone sees the Cleavers as a weird yet perfect family.

Clarissa kid Explains It All - A sequel series that would focus on Clarissa's son or daughter. Like in the original they give advice to the audience but it's modern. Main character would be based.

Family Tied - Alex is now a middle aged man who had to deal with his annoying liberal children. Sadly Michael can't do his role as Alex.

The Twilight Zone - But with little or no modern politics.

 

[Skitarii]

Reboot avatar but make it a grim representation of how far society has fallen since the cultivation of the first bending arts. Whereas modern benders are only able to bend a single element, and are limited by constricting movesets and rigid martial doctrines focused around materialism and self-centredness, the benders of yore were capable of things that would make then appear godlike in comparison. The office of the avatar was created to prevent the slow decay of this ancient knowledge and was bestowed upon the most worthy of upholding the old arts, but has degraded into a sick mockery of the state of affairs of the current age, more focused on controlling populations and enforcing unwanted peace on disparate peoplegroups. Have the current avatar be this dystopic warmonger, obsessed with "restoring the balance" and obliterating every sovereign government on the planet in order to put an end to human squabbles, and tell the story of the disparate few who end up in the crossfire between petty men playing at being gods

 

[Product Placement]

Superman, just make What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?, great story what show what makes Superman such an interesting character

Frankenstein, set it during WW1 or 2 with the doctor taking body parts from dead soldiers. Use the war as one of the reasons why he want to control life and death, however avoid doing anything like making the monster a nazi weapon or anything along those lines.

Men in Black, turn it into a TV show, think of a more comedic x files. I would mostly have each episode be stand alone based on a different conspiracy , also would move away from just aliens and add stuff like demons, vampires and the such from the comics

Friday the 13th, don't explain why Jason is the way he is at all. It was always weird he never went after the camp counselor that caused his accident, so I would have one of them reopening Camp Crystal lake.

Die Hard, just make it a Zeus Carver movie with Sam Jackson back in the role

Orca, set in Japan and goes after the Japanese whalers

 

[Captain Syrup]

Flashpoint Paradox. If you don't know, it features Thomas Wayne (Batman's father) who, in an alternate reality, survived the mugging instead of Bruce, thereby becoming Batman in his place. I always thought it was a huge stretch that Thomas would become Batman. Making him a criminal, while admittedly interesting, ruined the concept and always seemed like half a character to me. Joker also appears in the direct-to-video version, albeit briefly.

The obscenely buff hero is a bit distracting, It's badass that he's just some normal guy who wanted to be a doctor but the second his son was killed he picked up a gun. (Keaton is short and wiry, which is a nice contrast to Bale and Affleck, in my opinion.) I'd make Thomas a bit more virtuous, less eager to kill (but still brutally efficient), and I wouldn't have him fund his vigilantism through gambling.



Really, just re-write everything involving Flashpoint Joker. Refocus Batman's and Joker's feud to actually be about ideological differences, rather than LMAO Joker's in love with Bats! Thomas cleared out the low-level burglars, but kept the corrupt civil servants in place. Martha became obsessed with the idea that wealth shouldn't buy power. She wants a Social Darwinist utopia. Her desired ends are evil, but on a more personal level than Joker-Prime's and, unlike him, she isn't targeting civilians. She was "Lady Gotham" and now she's Patty Hearst.

 

[Liquid Kent]

Star Wars - The damage is done, but multiverse it. Acknowledge the Disney sequels as existing, before moving into more nuanced territory with a trilogy of one-and-done films focusing on characters to auteur filmmakers who respect the material. This pseudo-trilogy builds into a Crisis-on-Infinite-Earths-style acknowledgement that the Disney Canon, EU and auteur timeline existing side-by-side. Conflict and acknowledgement for maximum profit. Everybody wins. It's not fucking rocket science.

X-Men - Avoid Dark Phoenix saga. Adapt Days of Future Past but instead of rewriting the timeline to the familiar one, switch it out for Age of Apocalypse. Run the course for AoA as a standalone movie, then END it. Leave the AoA on a high note where it cannot be touched as a one-and-done film that stands on its own merits.

Transformers - Hard reboot. GAINAX for animation studio. Faithful adaptation of Transformers: Stormbringer. Hard to go wrong with Transformers-meets-The Bible. Gauge interest. Sell the Hasbro suits the concept of "Batman Begins for Transformers". You'll have your merchandise, and your gritty space robots superhero war story.

Harry Potter - (Surprising, I know) Make it more cloak-and-dagger and flesh out the mechanics and rules of the world. Upper-echelon governments are aware of magical users and have task forces to hunt them down. Less sanitized parts of the Potter-world embrace magic as part of their culture (e.g. Africa, India) where predatory frauds provide a necessary smokescreen for magical users' survival. The villains will be less about eugenics and more about the difference between the types of magic being explored and who takes responsibility in going down dark paths, if they are evil in the first place. The old cast are now in the mentor/alumni/supporting roles for a new generation.

Green Lantern - Make it a limited series in the vein of Moon Knight, but each season is a buildup to an antagonist. The first season will have Atrocitus as the main villain, having escaped Sinestro and Abin Sur's capture of the Five Inversions. Hal Jordan gets pulled in after Abin Sur's death.

GL Season 2 is Hal Jordan's training proper on Oa and the introduction of John Stewart as the actual replacement of Abin Sur, as Hal Jordan was a sort of close proxy. Sinestro is the main villain at the end having become disillusioned with the Guardians' way of enforcement, where John and Hal fight together and forge their friendship.

GL Season 3 will be buildup of the Sinestro Corps while Hal Jordan and John Stewart have buddy cops adventures against more classic enemies like the Controllers and cosmic DC together. Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner introduced as Darkstars in supporting roles before the impending undead apocalypse.

GL Season 4 will deal with the buildup to and the Blackest Night, which can usurp the Walking Dead for zombie rights. It all ends with a passing-of-the-torch to Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz.

 

[Skitarii]

Flashpoint Paradox. If you don't know, it features Thomas Wayne (Batman's father) who, in an alternate reality, survived the mugging instead of Bruce, thereby becoming Batman in his place. I always thought it was a huge stretch that Thomas would become Batman. Making him a criminal, while admittedly interesting, ruined the concept and always seemed like half a character to me. Joker also appears in the direct-to-video version, albeit briefly.

The obscenely buff hero is a bit distracting, It's badass that he's just some normal guy who wanted to be a doctor but the second his son was killed he picked up a gun. (Keaton is short and wiry, which is a nice contrast to Bale and Affleck, in my opinion.) I'd make Thomas a bit more virtuous, less eager to kill (but still brutally efficient), and I wouldn't have him fund his vigilantism through gambling.

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Really, just re-write everything involving Flashpoint Joker. Refocus Batman's and Joker's feud to actually be about ideological differences, rather than LMAO Joker's in love with Bats! Thomas cleared out the low-level burglars, but kept the corrupt civil servants in place. Martha became obsessed with the idea that wealth shouldn't buy power. She wants a Social Darwinist utopia. Her desired ends are evil, but on a more personal level than Joker-Prime's and, unlike him, she isn't targeting civilians. She was "Lady Gotham" and now she's Patty Hearst.

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That's just Pattinson and Dano's dynamic from the latest batman

 

[Captain Syrup]

That's just Pattinson and Dano's dynamic from the latest batman

I think I just summed up the Nolanverse, as well.

 

[Skitarii]

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Big woman 4u

 

[Captain Syrup]

Big woman 4u

I got some seed capital for you right here, hun.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I Dream of Jeannie. A US military officer on detail in Saudi Arabia picks up an antique-looking bottle in a souk, thinking it's a modern replica. After he returns to the US he works out the stopper and a beautiful Arab woman, a djinn in human form, appears. She draws him into a complex but secret relationship, his modern views clashing with her pre-Islamic ideas about the relation of the sexes, the temptations offered by her body and her magic driving him to the brink. In the second season, she blinks a green card into existence and makes her public debut, clashing with both modern feminism and the Muslim community's expectations for an Arab woman. Also lots of scenes where she shrinks and hides from Major Bellows behind giant prop pencils and coffee mugs. It wouldn't be I Dream of Jeannie without that.

 

[Skitarii]

I Dream of Jeannie. A US military officer on detail in Saudi Arabia picks up an antique-looking bottle in a souk, thinking it's a modern replica. After he returns to the US he works out the stopper and a beautiful Arab woman, a djinn in human form, appears. She draws him into a complex but secret relationship, his modern views clashing with her pre-Islamic ideas about the relation of the sexes, the temptations offered by her body and her magic driving him to the brink. In the second season, she blinks a green card into existence and makes her public debut, clashing with both modern feminism and the Muslim community's expectations for an Arab woman. Also lots of scenes where she shrinks and hides from Major Bellows behind giant prop pencils and coffee mugs. It wouldn't be I Dream of Jeannie without that.

I Dream of Jeanie except Nelson gets possessed by an actual demon and has to get exorcized by a priest

 

[HeyYou]

I Dream of Jeannie. A US military officer on detail in Saudi Arabia picks up an antique-looking bottle in a souk, thinking it's a modern replica. After he returns to the US he works out the stopper and a beautiful Arab woman, a djinn in human form, appears. She draws him into a complex but secret relationship, his modern views clashing with her pre-Islamic ideas about the relation of the sexes, the temptations offered by her body and her magic driving him to the brink. In the second season, she blinks a green card into existence and makes her public debut, clashing with both modern feminism and the Muslim community's expectations for an Arab woman. Also lots of scenes where she shrinks and hides from Major Bellows behind giant prop pencils and coffee mugs. It wouldn't be I Dream of Jeannie without that.

This is the one thing in the thread that I'd probably actually watch.

 

[Ensok]

Captain Planet but he's pro nuclear power now and regularly educates kids on how inefficient "green" energy is.

 

[Captain Syrup]

Captain Planet but he's pro nuclear power now and regularly educates kids on how inefficient "green" energy is.

Dr. Blight wins the Green Party nomination for President.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Captain Planet but he's low-key schizophrenic because the competing interests of each constituent element/power do not allow for ideal solutions to ecological problems. Gaia is several different women (perhaps played by the same actress), each one representing one aspect of the Earth at the expense of the others. The Planeteers basically represent their national interests: benevolent capitalism, rapid development, unrestrained exploitation of the environment, preservation of natural resources, and Mati is Heart.

 

[Dysnomia]

Rosemary's Baby. But Rosemary is actually behind the whole thing. She kills off the creepy cult members at the apartment building one by one as a sacrifice to her devil baby. Some of the cult members didn't realise what they were getting into and warn her husband. He calls in a priest, thinking the baby can somehow be saved. The movie ends on a cliffhanger exorcism/satanic powers scene where you just hear a baby cry as the credits roll. Was the baby exorcized or not? It's whatever you want it to be. No sequel. That would be stupid. They dragged The Omen on too long.

I just found Mia Farrow's doormat character too annoying. I get she can't do much. But jeez stop being such an overcooked pasta for a few minutes.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Daria where Jane and Daria kept the same "nihilist" worldview into adulthood, but Jane made a point to go out and do something with her life while Daria ended up a bitter Twitter addict. Upon realizing Jane somehow got her shit in order Daria sets out to try and see if she can alter her worldview.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

Frankenstein, set it during WW1 or 2 with the doctor taking body parts from dead soldiers. Use the war as one of the reasons why he want to control life and death, however avoid doing anything like making the monster a nazi weapon or anything along those lines.

Been done, Frankenstein's Army (although he was sort of making them as weapons to start with, but then changed his mind and just enjoyed the control aspect).

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Mortal Kombat

You could do much better without the overt focus on the affairs of elder gods beyond the "fight for earth". Keep an unapologetically brutal theme when it comes to killing off characters, and stick to Noob Saibot and Sindel (preestablished) for revivals. Don't even bring in another time travel copout to sustain the brand on. Just have it be a savage forever war until the bitter end of all things.

 

[Gutpuke]

Been done, Frankenstein's Army (although he was sort of making them as weapons to start with, but then changed his mind and just enjoyed the control aspect).

I remember that movie having some badass monster designs. Though I don't get why they had to film it found footage-style.