I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
I once asked what media franchises need to just stop, that have run their time. Now I want to know which ones DID stop, and could be restarted with new content.
Max Headroom could work, IFF they went full-bore with the mockery of media, corporatism-as-government and cynical view of advertising. Though the desolation inside and outside the cities and the plight of ‘blanks’ might hit too close to home nowadays as it’s pretty much a literal reality now.
They did attempt a reboot decades ago and completely dropped the ball taking Max from a satirical commentary about mainstream media and capitalistic nonsense into basically a talking head for capitalistic nonsense.
The actual original show was way ahead of its time and that change to it is what killed it.
Ow. That sounds horrible. I’m glad I’d never heard of it then, I guess. :(
I’m at the age now where I actually feel relieved if I hear news that Hollywood has decided not to go ahead with a prequel, remake, ‘re-imagining’, or whatever… and I purposefully avoid now the ones that sound like they’re going to be a disaster.