In the world of retro sci-fi movie theater, “Forbidden Planet” is all thought about a Hollywood classic and ranks at the top of nearly any major list of critical deep space movies. This 1956 retelling of William Shakespeare's “The Tempest” happily stands amidst the business of other classic works like “The Thing From Another World,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “The War of the Worlds,” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” as prime examples of that long-past Golden Age.
Of that popular group of 1950s sci-fi films, “Forbidden Planet” likewise stays the just one that has actually mercifully not gotten a Tinseltown reboot, however that's everything about to alter with current news of a Warner Bros. “revisionist” remake in the works from Eisner Award-winning comics developer and film writer Brian K. Vaughan (“Y: The Last Man,” “Saga”) and skilled manufacturer Emma Watts.
As reported recently by Deadline, Vaughan will pen the script for an upgraded take on “Forbidden Planet” much to the discouragement of perfectionists who think the product needs to be left unblemished no matter his strong track record as a talented writer.
A classic MGM lobby card for 1956's “Forbidden Planet.” (Image credit: MGM)
“Forbidden Planet” was initially directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starred Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, and Anne Francis. It was loosely adjusted from The Bard's last finished phase play about marooned sailors on a wonderful island lorded over by a sorcerer called Prospero– an intriguing plot that was revamped into a grand stellar experience where a team from the patrol spaceship C-57D arrive on the world Altair IV to examine a nest of forgotten researchers.
Alerted to keep away by its genius sole survivor Dr. Morbius (Pidgeon) and his child Altaira (Francis), Commander John Adams (Nielsen) and Co. show up in spite of the risks to find an undetectable homicidal beast lurking the world and reveal the secret of a long-perished alien civilization who've left their innovative innovation behind. And let's not forget ‘ol Robby the Robot!
Vaughan is definitely as much as the job of making up a proficient movie script for a “Forbidden Planet” remake. His comics jobs likewise consist of “Ex Machina,” “Runaways,” “Pride of Baghdad,” and “Paper Girls,” and in Hollywood, Vaughan has actually been connected to strike television series such as “Lost,” where he functioned as author, story editor, and manufacturer for 3 seasons before being blessed by the famous Steven Spielberg to bring Stephen King's “Under the Dome” to the little screen in 2013.
Earthly astronauts satisfy Dr. Morbius and Robby the Robot in “Forbidden Planet” (Image credit: MGM)
As the old saying goes, merely due to the fact that something CAN be done does not always imply that it SHOULD be done, and numerous uneasy fans would be completely content to leave “Forbidden Planet” untainted and unchanged permanently.
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