UFO goes to the big screen
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThe latest in the 'let's resurrect and destroy an old TV series' style of movie making, it seems that 1970s science fiction series, UFO, one of Gerry Anderson's few live action series is to be developed for a big screen release by ITV Global (a name that sounds like someone wished it was BBC Worldwide).
The original was set in 1980 and featured a covert military organisation, SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) with a secret headquarters located beneath a Film Studio in the UK. It starred Ed Bishop and George Sewell. It has aged just slightly better than its stable mate Space: 1999. Whilst UFO didn't have anything quite like the flared trouser space suits of Space: 1999, it did feature women on the moonbase wearing, for no obvious or explored reason, shiny purple wigs and the uniform budget involved a lot of fishnet as I recall. I did like the interceptors that had one-shot missiles on the front - huge nukes that didn't need to hit the UFO, just explode near it!
No really. What hairstyle will I have?
Anyway, the report was in ScifiNow, who picked it up in turn from Variety. So it must be true.
The original was set in 1980 and featured a covert military organisation, SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation) with a secret headquarters located beneath a Film Studio in the UK. It starred Ed Bishop and George Sewell. It has aged just slightly better than its stable mate Space: 1999. Whilst UFO didn't have anything quite like the flared trouser space suits of Space: 1999, it did feature women on the moonbase wearing, for no obvious or explored reason, shiny purple wigs and the uniform budget involved a lot of fishnet as I recall. I did like the interceptors that had one-shot missiles on the front - huge nukes that didn't need to hit the UFO, just explode near it!
No really. What hairstyle will I have?
Anyway, the report was in ScifiNow, who picked it up in turn from Variety. So it must be true.
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Date: 2009-05-27 10:19 pm (UTC)I hope that it's a straight film rather than anything parodic.
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Date: 2009-05-27 10:34 pm (UTC)I wonder if this is to counter the BBC Doctor Who movie.
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Date: 2009-05-28 12:21 am (UTC)1970!?!
Date: 2009-05-28 12:47 am (UTC)Some of the scarier episodes seemed to get shown less often - "a question of priorities", I have vague memories of having to stay up late to see, and I remember being genuinely upset when Foster and the alien had saved each other, and then security kill him - far better than "Enemy Mine".
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Date: 2009-05-28 02:24 am (UTC)why am i the only person here with a UFO icon?
Date: 2009-05-28 03:40 am (UTC)the new ST film was fine, i liked it quite a bit but a new UFO movie is something that i could see easily being completely retarded. alot of why it was so cool is that it was so wild yet completely unironic.
Re: 1970!?!
Date: 2009-05-28 08:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-28 11:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-28 05:23 pm (UTC)http://www.flickr.com/photos/trav28/sets/72157600830067829/
Shivers down my spine
Date: 2009-05-28 08:16 pm (UTC)Stories were a bit pants though.