MovieChat Forums > Small Wonder (1985) Discussion > Why hasn't this been remade or rebooted ...

Why hasn't this been remade or rebooted yet?


Every morning when I wake up, I start the day knowing full well that I'm going to hear about a Small Wonder remake. It hasn't happened yet and, it's driving me insane.
I'm not a huge fan of the show or anything. It's just that; movie studios are out of ideas, it's all sequels, reboots, comic books, and TV adaptations. They even give boardgames movies now. Not Small Wonder though.
It's f-ing weird that Small Wonder hasn't been remade yet. Is there a curse I don't know about or something?


http://kickthosechickens.blogspot.com

reply

As many others have mentioned, Tiffany Brisette made the show as an extremely convincing child-robot in appearance and voice, it's very difficult to find someone who can pull that off convincingly even decades later.

reply

Hey, if they could turn that awful Teen Wolf movie into a fairly decent TV show, they could certainly rework this into something viable.

--
You have many question, Mr Sparkle. I send you premium -- answer question, hundred percent!

reply

Agreed. I remember reading on a SW fansite that the show worked best when "Vicki's presence enters the equation in changing the way the Lawsons act toward others and among themselves". That should be the main driving force behind a new Small Wonder series. Have the focus be on Vicki, on her interactions with the family and others around her, and learning from them and becoming more human as a result. Also, since Ted always saw her as a robot first, have that be an ongoing thing, where the more human Vicki becomes, the harder it is for Ted to fall back on his "just a robot" excuse, until something happens where Ted, finally, sees Vicki as a person and his daughter, like Joan always did, and not just a machine. I think, if done right by a person or group who actually gave a crap, a new Small Wonder series could actually be a really compelling show, with less focus on cheap laughs and goofy effects and more on using technology as the backdrop to tell very human stories. After all, isn't that what good science fiction is supposed to do?

-I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
-I think if you're born, it's too late.

reply

For some reason the humanoid robot genre seldom does well in the long run. " My Living Doll" (1964–1965), has 26 episodes. "Battlestar Galactica (2004), has 73. "Äkta människor" (2012) had 20. "Almost Human" (2013) only has 13. "Humans" (2015), has 16. "Small Wonder" has 96.

Marko

reply

No reboot, but they had to clean Vickie's cache.

reply