{"id":1405,"date":"2008-11-06T20:45:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T00:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:07:08","slug":"straczynski-refutes-forbidden-planet-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/06\/straczynski-refutes-forbidden-planet-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Straczynski Refutes FORBIDDEN PLANET Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/forbiddenplanetlobbycard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1871\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"How can we return to a planet that blew up in the last film?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/forbiddenplanetlobbycard-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/forbiddenplanetlobbycard-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/forbiddenplanetlobbycard.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/06\/new-forbidden-planet-remake-details-might-not-quite-be-a-remake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earlier today<\/a>, we passed along a report from AintItCoolNews about how screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski is approaching this remake of the classic 1956 science-fiction film <strong>Forbidden Planet<\/strong>. Well, forget what we said.<\/p>\n<p>Always one to keep the lines of communications open with his fans when he can, Straczynski was quick to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmsnews.com\/msg.aspx?id=1-17738&amp;topic=Writing\" target=\"_blank\">comment<\/a> on AintItCool&#8217;s report, dismissing it outright.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That report is totally incorrect. It&#8217;s not going to be retro, and it&#8217;s not going to be a continuation. When Altair 4 blows up, it blows up. I have, however, found a way to honro [sic] the original movie without in any way besmirching it in order to do this iteration. Once folks find out what we&#8217;re actually going to do, I think they&#8217;ll be most pleased. Forbidden Planet remains one of my favorite films of all time, and I wouldn&#8217;t even think about doing this project if I didn&#8217;t think there was a way to do it that would not in any way diminish the original&#8230;which is why this is the the first development in years to actually get to the script stage. Everybody involved is very excited by the approach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess this puts us back at square one for what we know about the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Earlier today, we passed along a report from AintItCoolNews about how screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski is approaching this remake of the classic 1956 science-fiction film Forbidden Planet. Well, forget what we said. Always one to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/06\/straczynski-refutes-forbidden-planet-rumors\/\" title=\"Straczynski Refutes FORBIDDEN PLANET Rumors\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[83,936,22,644,8,893],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-classic-films","8":"tag-forbidden-planet","9":"tag-in-development","10":"tag-j-michael-straczynski","11":"tag-remake","12":"tag-science-fiction"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}