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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.

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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jumper, great film, lots of material already written.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[–] Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

maybe SG1, but being only 10 episodes and showrunned by gero doesnt give me high hopes, scifi needs proper 20 episodes to flesh out the characters and develop stories, studios penny pinch way too much that sacrifices the quality of many shows. they really shouldve started in a new galaxy, rather than milky way(which already had ori, goauld as the major enemies for the whole series, and a little wraith), which is done to death. if its re imagined series like with bsg. since they mentioned they want to broaden the "audience", sgu did that and it suffered badly. i assume broadening means something similar to sgu original target audience witht he element of trying to keep up with modern issues?

i dont think trek needs anymore reboots, it needs some hibernation, and let someone other paramount/or someone like kurtzman owning the rights to showrun, what paaramount+ is doing is churning out nutrek slop after slop.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The Expanse

The show didn’t cover the Laconia story line, and given the time that passes before the final three books, we’re coming up on the perfect time to get the same cast back to do it.

The last few books are, in my view, the most compelling part of an already superb story.

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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The problem is not « what to reboot » it is How to reboot.

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just turn it off and on again.

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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] charokol@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I didn’t really understand how TV worked back then, and I just hated that the Sliders crew couldn’t get back home

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] remon@ani.social 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I did enjoy the recent Scrubs reboot.

[–] Maybelline@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good to hear. It had slipped my mind

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[–] etherphon@piefed.world 29 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I would say Firefly but then also there's a chance it could be ruined so I don't really know if it's worth it.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

It's getting an animated series so close enough to a reboot?

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 22 points 1 week ago

Nice try, Hollywood.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of 'blanks' might hit too close to home nowadays as it's pretty much a literal reality now.

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago

I'll take the obvious one: We owe it to ourselves to never stop rebooting the 1990s classic SciFi, "Reboot".

[–] CyberneticOwl@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was a Captain Planet parody with Don Cheadle like 15 years ago which was very much like The Boys + Captain Planet. I think that could actually work well now and have a more mature tone of Captain Planet who is like Homelander.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 week ago

I feel like Buck Rodgers could get rebooted to today and do well.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Yes! And Huey Lewis and the News show up in each film to tell the teenager that their music is too loud.

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[–] Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

From coast to coast?

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[–] chris@l.roofo.cc 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I miss black and white. Also I would like to play something like viva piñata.

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[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

None. People need to move on and create new experiences. Recycling is for garbage.

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[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Nice try, Hollywood.

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