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They should remake this movie or do it as a multi-part season on HBO or Showtime


Make it darker and grittier, this is one movie that should get a do-over.

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Original book ending?

Or MOVIE ending?

The book ending had Francis secretly helping kill other Sandmen so Logan and Jessica could escape to the surface only to find a nuclear wasteland and a spaceship that takes them to Sanctuary...on Mars.

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That'd work..stay true to the book.

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I dunno...the ‘76 film has a sense of “blind hope” but ultimately triumph for our planet.

And honestly...what the hell was stopping the populous from simply building more domed cities?

I thought by the time I was this age...we’d already be living in climate-controlled domes.

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I liked Francis; I wish they had him live and help them in the movie.

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Yeah...the BOOK Francis was a good guy.

But it had a darker ending for Earth.

But please...no TV series.

That series sucked.

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They'd have to seriously work the underlying theme. The story was written during the days of the "generation gap" and "never trust anyone over thirty", when a hell of a lot of people were feeling irrelevant or out of touch if they weren't young and with it.

It could make an excellent show if they find a way to relate it to the modern world, either making it about helicopter parents or their spoiled offspring, or the SJW nitwits on modern college campuses. Or a satirical look at a society based on young people who never look up from their smartphones. Whatever annoys the mainstream the most.

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Good idea!

Sort of the like the 1998 "Brave New World" film took into account then-current media obsession

BTW, earth wasn't a wasteland in the book; it was completely populated just like today. There was no nuclear wasteland, and the mazecars ran literally all over the planet.

The idea was that no place was safe, and there was no "sanctuary" (except off planet).

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