Re-envisioning

[McCoy]

In the "An A-team for the 21st Century" thread http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37722 kiethcurtis says


I've seen few re-envisioned TV shows and movies that were as well-crafted as BG.
I offered the opinion that, in effect, the source material had no place to go but up.

Which gave me an idea.

I put this under "other genres" because this will allow us to role-play directors and producers.

You challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to take the worst TV series or movie you can think of, and "re-envision" it so that it was good.

I'll start. Punked. In my re-envisioned version, every episode ends with the guest star/victim kicking the crap out of Ashton Krutchner.

While the staff stands by and laughs.

[Curufea]

Mutant X
Now with actors, story and a plot. Wood will now only appear in set construction.

Reality Show of Choice
Each week, viewers vote on a method of execution. Unpopular housemates/survivors/idols/small furry creatures from Alpha Centauria that are voted out, get to experience it. The winner of the series is given a gun and free license to kill any TV executives of their choice.

[McCoy]

Reality Show of Choice
Each week, viewers vote on a method of execution. Unpopular housemates/survivors/idols/small furry creatures from Alpha Centauria that are voted out, get to experience it. The winner of the series is given a gun and free license to kill any TV executives of their choice.
I'd watch that.

[Curufea]

It is based on the fact that anyone applying to a reality show has no life, and is pretty much committing suicide for any future career in any area they care to try for, anyway.

[Captain Obvious]

You mean they're not eligible to take part in celebrity boxing matches?

[CourtFool]

The Simple Life - Really take their inheritance away and never give it back.

[McCoy]

The Simple Life - Really take their inheritance away and never give it back.
I'd watch that!

[Captain Obvious]

The Simple Life - Really take their inheritance away and never give it back.

Nah, then they'd have to constantly be in the public eye just to make a living.

A better plan would be to make them believe they're on a TV show, but never air it, so no one else has to be subjected to it.

[Dr. Anomaly]

Nah, then they'd have to constantly be in the public eye just to make a living.

A better plan would be to make them believe they're on a TV show, but never air it, so no one else has to be subjected to it.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Oh, man -- now my sides ache! Watch for some rep in 3-4 days (I've got a lot of people racked up on my 'to rep' list right now, and it will take a couple of days to get through them. But you're on that list now, Captain Obvious! :thumbup: )

[dbsousa]

The Apprentice: Every team member questions "the Donald" every time he hypes one of his projects.


DT: "The Trump Taj Mahal is one of the most successful casinos in the world."
Team Member: "Actually Sir, my research suggests that it hasn't made a profit in three quarters and that many stockholders want to remove you from the board..."
The Facts of Life: Same premise, but it airs on Cinemax, only at night.

[Black Rose]

The Facts of Life: Same premise, but it airs on Cinemax, only at night.
Oh sweet baby Jeebus, pleeeeeeeeze air this! I would so pay for Skinemax to see something like this. Then again, I likes me some priveate-school-girls-in-nighties. :D :sneaky: :eg:

[Duke Bushido]

AirWolf:

Ernest Borgnine is forced to kill Jan Michael Vincent in the pilot episode, enabling polysyllabic dialogue for the rest of the series.

[McCoy]

The Apprentice: Every team member questions "the Donald" every time he hypes one of his projects.
I'd watch that!


The Facts of Life: Same premise, but it airs on Cinemax, only at night.
That one not so much. Good re-envisioning, just not to my taste. Maybe an older, gender switched version on LOGO?

[McCoy]

AirWolf:

Ernest Borgnine is forced to kill Jan Michael Vincent in the pilot episode, enabling polysyllabic dialogue for the rest of the series.
I'd watch that!

[OddHat]

60 Minutes. Exact same show but hosted entirely by Muppets.

[McCoy]

60 Minutes. Exact same show but hosted entirely by Muppets.
You mean Andy Rooney isn't one of those two guys in the balcony?

[Curufea]

The Footy Show
As before, but hosted by holders of a Year 12 Certificate (at the very least). All cross dressing to be banned. Female guest stars or actors chosen for ability rather than breast size.

[edit]
For those blessed to be in other countries during this timeslot-
http://footyshow.ninemsn.com.au/afl/
http://footyshow.ninemsn.com.au/nrl/

[Captain Obvious]

60 Minutes. Exact same show but hosted entirely by Muppets.

Everything's better with Muppets.

Except maybe that Cinemax version of Facts of Life.

[dbsousa]

That 70's House: a PBS Special in which two families would move into a 1970's style house, and have to wear authentic hairstyles and synthetic fiber clothes. No modern conveniences will be allowed into the house, and the children will have listen to 8-track tapes, and score the low-quality skunk weed that was available back then. The adults will have to ignore their children to "find themselves" and struggle with the cultural norms of the day, EST, Key Parties, and Gas Lines. In the last episode, all the male children are drafted, sent to Vietnam, and shot dead.

[Sketchpad]

The Powers of Matthew Star (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083467/)
Ditch the jumpsuit and 70s hair and give him some umph. Make him a dark superhero that's attempting to find his origins while helping the needy. Think The Pretender with superpowers and an alien origin ;)

V (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085106/)
BIG scale war this time around. Think Independance Day in scale.

Buck Rogers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078579/)
Keep the general premise, but put it on Cinemax and have John Candy's voice digitally recreated for the robot ;)

[OddHat]

Greatest American Shazam Isis Star Wonder Misfits Bionic Manimal Invisible Spider Hulk Night-Stalker Automan Strange Destroyer Master Ninja Hero from Atlantis

My dream TV series and occasional campaign background. All of the American 70s and 80s TV Superheroes and near-superheroes, facing the Supernatural menaces that plagued Kolchek as well as their own foes, all of the characters coordinated by the OSI, with a million dollar per episode budget and Sam Raimi and Francis Lawrence as the producers and show-runners.


Edit: Missed Mathew Star and Starman, so added "Star" for both of them. :)

[keithcurtis]

[B]Greatest American Shazam Isis Star Wonder Misfits Bionic Manimal Invisible Spider Hulk Night-Stalker Automan Strange Destroyer Master Ninja Hero from Atlantis
I would by that on DVD in a heartbeat.

Keith "Never Forget" Curtis

[Enforcer84]

Friends, only their six mercenaries in the jungles of South America.

[Curufea]

Friends, only their six mercenaries in the jungles of South America.
I believe the media call these "contracters" - makes them sound less nasty.

[austenandrews]

Is there any bad show that couldn't be improved by putting it on Cinemax?





Don't answer that.

[StGrimblefig]

(after a quick scan through the "Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction")

Space 1999, in which everyone that isn't killed by the initial nuclear explosion on the moon either dies slowly of radiation sickness or quickly when the moon falls into the sun.

Quark, starring Jon Stewart as Adam Quark.

Salvage-1, in which the first commercial mission to the moon, sent to salvage the equipment left behind by NASA, finds the REAL purpose of the moon landings... (insert appropriate X-Files music).

[Enforcer84]

Greatest American Shazam Isis Star Wonder Misfits Bionic Manimal Invisible Spider Hulk Night-Stalker Automan Strange Destroyer Master Ninja Hero from Atlantis

My dream TV series and occasional campaign background. All of the American 70s and 80s TV Superheroes and near-superheroes, facing the Supernatural menaces that plagued Kolchek as well as their own foes, all of the characters coordinated by the OSI, with a million dollar per episode budget and Sam Raimi and Francis Lawrence as the producers and show-runners.


Edit: Missed Mathew Star and Starman, so added "Star" for both of them. :)
I'd buy that series.

[KA.]

The Facts of Life: Same premise, but it airs on Cinemax, only at night.

You want to see Mrs. Garrett and Natalie get together?
:nonp:

:sick:

KA.

[KA.]

You challenge, should you decide to accept it, is to take the worst TV series or movie you can think of, and "re-envision" it so that it was good.

I'll start. Punked. In my re-envisioned version, every episode ends with the guest star/victim kicking the crap out of Ashton Krutchner.

While the staff stands by and laughs.

I even have a title for you:

Punched!

KA.

[ThothAmon]

The X - Files Redux: wherein the most useless agent in the history of the FBI is sh*tcanned for incompetence in Episode 1. His cute redheaded partner moves on to the Florida field office to work intimately with the 'Silk Stalkings' team :rolleyes:


The Master Redux: the ageing ninja cowboy ditches the lame sidekick and takes on a cadre of cute boys and girls for some strict post-watershed discipline :whip:

[Curufea]

DOOM 2:
Similar to Doom, but without the virus, but with the original hell and demons. Also this time around the writer and the director have been replaced with people who have actually played the game and have experience with horror movies.

[Basil]

Not a series, but a single episode.

America's Funniest Home Videos. The episode where someone explains to Bob Saget that
He
Is
Not
Funny.

So he leaves show business forever.

I SOOOOOooooo much want to see that.

[Ternaugh]

Everything's better with Muppets.

Except maybe that Cinemax version of Facts of Life.

I believe that would be the show, Avenue Q, known for the songs, "If You Were Gay", "The Internet Is For Porn", and "You Can Be As Loud As the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)". Now playing at Wynn Las Vegas, and some place on the other coast.

http://www.avenueq.com/

How about:

CSI: Anywhere that's actually filmed in the host city for longer than 2 weeks a year. Word of advice, people, there are no large hills in Miami, and Las Vegas doesn't have any warehouses with "Sunkist" painted on it. There are a little too many trees, and what's with those strange filters to change the smog colors?

JoeG