{"id":416,"date":"2008-04-04T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:57:24","slug":"johnny-5-to-live-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/04\/johnny-5-to-live-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny 5 To Live Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny 5, the robot who gained self-awareness and free will thanks to a bolt of lightening in the 1986 comedy <strong>Short Circuit<\/strong>, is set to be reactivated.<\/p>\n<p>Rights to a remake of the film have been picked by Dimension Films co-chairman Bob Weinstein, according to a report in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121014082522\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117983475?refCatId=13\">Variety<\/a><\/em>. Interestingly, the writers of the original film and its 1988 sequel, S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock have been hired to script this new version.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sure that the original film is remembered fondly by some folks, does it really have the name recognition factor to warrant a remake? A computer\/robot that gains self-awareness is not an idea unique to Short Circuit. Taking into account advances in computer and robotic sciences over the past two decades, I don\u2019t see why they don\u2019t just create a new, original story instead of updating the original for the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Johnny 5, the robot who gained self-awareness and free will thanks to a bolt of lightening in the 1986 comedy Short Circuit, is set to be reactivated. Rights to a remake of the film have <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/04\/johnny-5-to-live-again\/\" title=\"Johnny 5 To Live Again\">[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":[22,8],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-in-development","8":"tag-remake"},"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\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}