Like many who saw this film as kids I was amazed by it and now as a 50 something
man I still despite the lame 50s cold war histera It still can give a sence of
wonder that anything is possable!
Now how about somebody like Tom Hanks to do a remake that can the same to a
younger generation????
Tom Landry (I also was a extra on the miniseries From the earth to the Moon
also produced by hanks.)
How the heck can you remake this? It's a classic story about going to the moon in the coldwar age of the 50's and we've already been to the moon. I'm sorry but there's no way this one can be remade.
shareThey might be able to do a remake if they play up the fact that the story involves a private enterprise going to space, and the govt tries to stop them.
sharewell you do have a point there...
shareHow about one that starts w/ a Friendship 7 tragedy?(instead of the V2 fiasco) The death of John Glenn stops the space race JFK's "We choose the go to the MOON!" speech never comes to fruition, producing an alternate history that presents a "clean slate" for a DM story. Maybe a NASA shut down Since the rocket was nuclear, maybe the private sector could try for a "Project Orion" propulsion system, which would definitely piss the government off. Maybe they'll do it anyway, maybe they'll divert to air assisted multiple reusable stages rather than a single stage to escape velocity, lunar landing & back. You could still have the same crisis, maybe even a "Woody Woodpecker" infomercial. It may have a different theme than rocket thrust as the Red-stone, & the Atlas boosters would already have had "joe public", & WWP up to speed on such things. You could even have the same characters, Joe can still be the comic relief
If you find yourself, it's probably a doppelganger
"They might be able to do a remake if they play up the fact that the story involves a private enterprise going to space, and the govt tries to stop them."
Substitute the moon for Mars with that focus and I think it would be a good movie. It's time for a "realistic" mission to mars movie anyway.
> How the heck can you remake this? It's a classic story about going to the moon
> in the coldwar age of the 50's and we've already been to the moon. I'm sorry but
> there's no way this one can be remade.
Hear Hear!!
Teresa
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I have to agree. This one can not be remade. It is like a bell that you can not "un-ring."
However, it can also be said that every story since Homer is a copy of a copy of a copy. Shakespeare is a derivative hybrid taken from a pool of ancient writer's tales. So, if that is true, well...
So many things would have to be changed. The USSR role. The moon as target. The context of empty foreign space as the frontier.
Okay, okay, well then. Ideas anyone?
Well... the remake could still be set in 1950, no?
shareMAYBE it could be redone IF they keep it acurate to the time. These days our technology might allow for easier trips to and back from the moon. Keep the time frame in the 50s during the Cold War days, and during the "infancy" of space travel and they MIGHT pull off a decent remake - maybe not theatrical-release worthy.
Hopefully they won't try too hard on visual effects as this is just a simple attempt to get to the moon and back in a "prototype(?)" sort of rocket.
To defeat me is a challenge. To destroy me is impossible.
Remaking this is not a good idea. The original has a charm that derives from the time it was made and the way the world was then.
It is far different today. There really is no wonder left to be exploited by a mere trip to the moon.
And there have been a couple good efforts with less than excellent results at going to Mars pictures in recent years.
Red Planet and Mission To Mars.
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."
-Dennis
If it were modern times-to be the same the same story-it would have to have an Apollo-free history.May not be too hard to imagine as the Moon shot wasn't just something history & technology evolved into. It was a Cold War gauntlet tossed up by JFK against the Russians. Maybe a bit before too because I think the Moon may have been the goal since the start of Project Mercury. Maybe an alternate parallel history where the space card was never played. Just faster & higher aircraft. Then private enterprize can get involved. A decent twist may be the use of advanced space planes per the original plan to baby step into space, using hypersonic aircraft to greater speeds & heights as opposed to the quick & dirty cannonball/ballistic missile route chosen in real history. Obviously you can't land like a plane on the Moon, but perhaps they can either do a free return or keep the sp in orbit while some make the descent in space suits & jet packs. Maybe the Lunar surface looking like the Bonestol painting in the original could be a good effect, since it's an alternate history anyway.
If I'm wrong if I don't & wrong if I do, you're having your cake & eating it too.
Consider--someone comes up with a new material that allows an inexpensive super-NERVA--a nuclear rocket with enough specific impulse to allow a single-stage lunar landing and return.
A fictional equivalent of Burt Rutan takes it and runs with it and build the thing and it's all set to launch.
Now, cast Hanoi Jane as leader of the protestors and you've got your story.
"Now, cast Hanoi Jane as leader of the protestors and you've got your story."
Sounds like she could be up for her next Academy Award!
It was powered by a reactor that used steam for propulsion. But I wonder if the following remake strategy would work: Though ballistic missile tech was used in movie, & NASA, the pursued wisdom in those years was wings, turbo, & ramjets, w/ rockets taking over @ around 4000mph & 35 miles up for the final push to orbit. They could draw from the future turbofan technology from the 747 plans, & design a subsonic plane that can carry an air-launched multistage missile=slung under the mothership's belly, powered at launch by afterburning turbojets to drive the missile horizontally to around mach 2, where the missile's ramjet system can propel the remaining package to about mach 7 or so at around 30 miles altitude. Because it's not going straight up, it wouldn't need enough thrust for a vertical launch, & as soon as the package sheds the ramjet stage, the final push to orbit can be done w/ a much smaller rocket package. I'm kind of bouncing this off my earlier post where I had a fictional Friendship 7 disaster shut down NASA. This could be the parallel of the V2 fiasco @ the opening scene of the original. Ironically, the "quick & dirty" ballistic missile pace to space was predominant both in the fictional private sector of the movie(more so in fact), & the government run NASA in real life. There was a quest b/4 going the missile route to fly into space. Maybe the team can conceal their project under the cover of aviation technology.
If you find yourself, it's probably a doppleganger
DM was MADE in the 50's, that doesn't necessarily mean it was SET in the 50's. They may not have known what the 60's on would look like. I think the version I thought of could maintain the integrety of the original, & bring a new twist on things. The main way mine would compramise the original is that it wouldn't have as much of a "Moon now or never" theme to it.
If you find yourself, it's probably a doppleganger
How's this for the plot summary?
'The "X Prize" was captured in October 2004 as a private corporation successfully launched into space (a not very impressive short suborbital hop), winning ten million dollars. A decade later, there is a race among private investors to capture a 100 billion dollar prize for the first private flight to the Moon. Will the Chinese or the Europeans beat them? The answer (India?) is surprising.'
Along the way, we have great effects and great script and maybe a classic remake for the 21st century?
I think I understand where your post was coming from. In 1950 this was a real wow of a special effects film, and it created a true sense of wonder about traveling out to the moon. Why _couldn't_ that be recreated, with better special effects for the 21st audience?
(And btw ... you were an extra on FTETTM? Very cool, could be a couple of good stories there. Let IMDB know, eh? Get yourself listed? Didn't find any Landry on the complete cast of that. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/fullcredits)
tomtac
I could easily see this as an updated remake. Rather than the first trip to the Moon the goal would be the establishment of a viable permanent base. Much of the original story development could be used.
Some material from "The Man Who Sold the Moon" could be used as well. This would actually be appropriate, while the story is credited as based on "Rocketship Galileo" the story was heavily rewritten. Much of the movie story was then fed back into the later short story.
Robert
No. If you haven't noticed, there is simply no such thing as a "good honest remake" nowadays! Speaking from a movie-making standpoint (and a suspension of historic fact of course), if this movie was to be even considered for a remake today the Producer and/or Director would definitely have to re-imagine it more along the lines of a political/conspiracy suspense-thriller, but we do all know what happens when classic movies get "re-imagined", right? <Tim Burton, Jan De Bont I'm looking at you!!> Or pander to the younger generation of movie-goers by turning it into a horror movie, with a blood-thirsty psychopath onboard who tortures and murders the crew of beautiful, 20-somethings one by one. So as you can see, the options range from unlikely to idiotic.
shareI don't see a need to remake this. There's enough of that going on already.
shareI agree there's no need for a remake, but more fundamentally, you CAN'T remake it. Ever since men actually landed on the moon, any sort of "remake" has been rendered impossible. Anyway, DESTINATION MOON was about a lot more than just landing on the moon -- postulating the trip, the feasibility of such a journey (which few believed was possible in 1950), the preparations for it, the voyage into the unknown, the moon itself as this impossible goal -- none of that could be re-created today. A film about a trip to the moon or anywhere else would be just that, not a remake of the once-in-a-lifetime DESTINATION MOON, a movie that could only have been made in its own unique era.
shareI am with you roselaar:
If the powers that be want to produce a remake they will find a way. But I would rather the money be spent on remastering the original so new generations can witness the efforts put into projects like this one. No computers and small budgets and yet classics were created back in the 50's and 60's. We will never see their likes again. I grew up watching these movies on Saturday afternoons or very late evenings and wished I had seen them on the big screen. Create all the remakes you want but I will alway appreciate the original for the grand effort these people put into there production.
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> I grew up watching these movies on Saturday afternoons
> or very late evenings and wished I had seen them on the
> big screen.
Oh, man, did that kick off a good memory!
There were some theaters in the Boston area, about a decade or so ago, that did take some old movies and put them up on the big screen. I remember seeing "When Worlds Collide" on the big screen. Unbelievable, well worth three times the ticket price!
So, yes, maybe we should pray for someone remastering the original and then giving it a re-release in a good number of theaters, maybe even on an IMAX screen. That would be a hoot!
Hello Tomtac:
Now I'm jealous. I just hope to see the original on DVD. Most of the SciFi films I enjoyed, like The Day the Earth Stood Still and of course this one, I saw on TV. So to see Forbidden Planet or any of these greats on the big screen would be fantastic to me. Lets hope these films get a second chance. Remakes have their place but place the originals at a theater and I am sure people will come. There are more of us then Hollywood knows. We are quite, yet I know we are there.
Waffles Anyone
rstory-3
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Or pander to the younger generation of movie-goers by including a blood-thirsty psychopath onboard who tortures and slaughters the crew one by one.
It's been done: Apollo the 13th Jason takes NASA :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPzhUotd2AU
Oh, yeah and Hellraiser: Bloodlines as well. Thanks for validating my point!!!
...and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!!
My point exactly. Also was done in Hellraiser: Bloodlines.
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Sorry actnfla, but haven't you noticed there's no such thing as "a good honest remake" these days???
...and your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!!
To make a remake of any movie today would be an injustice to the movie, we/they would spoil it, as they do with almost every remake; it would be filled with too much sex, too much violence, too much drugs, and the background music would have nothing to do with the mood, the special effects would be probably over run the basic plot of the movie. You only have to check this with any remake of just about any movie made reciently, King Kong for example, the only similarity is that a bunvh of people go to an island, find a iant ape, bring him to NY and kill him.
Never depend on anything and you will never be disappointed.
Actually, I'm thinking that a sequel would be a better bet -- Destination Moon: Operation Cleanup.
shareI'm surprised (somewhat) that the TV movie "Salvage 1" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/reference that starred Andy Griffith hasn't been mentioned as being a (very) possible remake. It was a privately financed mission to the moon using a unique, plausible method to get there, attempted to be scientifically accurate, AND was opposed by "Official/Gov't" sources!
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