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Apple May Turn Fantasy 80s Movie 'Time Bandits' Into a TV Series
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They're probably doing it to be able to draw people into their media ecosystem which pales in comparison to entities like Netflix. Netflix draws people in (in a growing part) by original content that is exclusive to that service. I suspect that Apple wants to do the same thing. Without original content, it is only a matter of time that the content available to Apple will drop to a point where it isn't enough of a draw.
I don't think Apple should get themselves involved in movies/tv series business. They even lost the elegance of their beautiful commercials that were done in the past and now its just loud and big sparkle but the magic and elegance is gone. Who would be the creative mind behind all that? Cue? He has no clue. Who at Apple has the drive and skill to make a dive into these territories? I can't think of anyone
That's just an affectation on Gilliam's part. It's not a "trilogy" in the sense of a three part connected narrative. Additionally, since Gilliam is an executive producer on this TV series, apparently he disagrees with you on the integrity of this so-called "trilogy" being violated. Since he's the one who labeled it a "trilogy" in the first place, that's his right.
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Yes, I understand that, as part of the deal, they are going to pull all the DVD copies of the original film and deface them with spray paint. They will be ruined, absolutely. But, Terry Gilliam is behind this, so I think it his right to do with his artistic creation as he will.
This problem is not specific or peculiar to Apple. Currently every studio keep re-making old shows and movies and when the movie/show doesn't do well that same studio immediately looks for another old tv show or movie to regurgitate. How many Bonds/Star Treks/Mission Impossibles/Jaws/Harry Potter (and knockoffs)/ and a couple hundred more that I don't feel like typing are already in production right now? It's viewed as safe because the execs think that there is a built in audience.
Time:
iTunes: January 9 2001
Today: July 27 2018
Difference: 17 years
Apple is trying for present/future (in some respects).
You should too.
Time Bandits! Never seen it, I just know that's the first computer game (presumably based on this) that I ever played, on the Atari ST 
The level of greed. Apple under Jobs was a technology company, under Cook its just another greedy corporation slapping stuff on the wall to see what sticks.
Have to watch it again, Never saw it without being high. Also The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
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You mean a greedy technology company, those rose colored glasses are a bit cloudy.
That’s just your imagination talking.
Apple has always been driven by greed.
They are not an altruistic company that tucks you in at night.
You can go back to the beginning days of iTunes and see the same negative comments.
No it’s the fact that as hardware matures and sales inevitably slow companies need to find other ways to generate growth/revenue. Other companies like Microsoft are doing it with the cloud or software as a service. Apple is choosing to do it with content. My guess is they’ll do something similar with news/magazines and eventually bundle all of it into one Amazon Prime like subscription service.
Also let’s not forget it was Steve Jobs’ Apple that charged you more if you wanted your plastic Macbook in black. How is that not the definition of greedy?
If Apple were in the financial position to do so, they could pay off the insurance companies who own the rights to Gilliam's Don Quixote and hire Gilliam to direct/produce that. But I don't know. It would take a special company with deep pockets and artistic vision to pull of resurecting that particular project. So, maybe no.
That's my main worry. Form what I've read so far, Apple seems to be aiming for "family friendly" content with most of their rumoured TV projects, and it'd be only too easy to turn this one into Disney-style fluff.
Seeing Gilliam's name attached to it gives me some hope, since he seems to have too much artistic integrity to agree to that – on the other hand I'm not sure how much actual control he has over the rights to the material.
As it was George Lucas' right to do what he did with the Star Wars Special Editions. People are not infallible. Not everything Lucas says and does is right even if he has "the right". Same is true for Gilliam.
This is the first concept I've seen suggested that I'd be willing to watch. If Netflix were doing it, I'd bet on it working well (they've done 80's nostalgia well with Stranger Things, and rebooted old concepts with Lost in Space).
In general I've thought Apple going into content was a bad idea, and still do. Seems like a bit of a conflict of interest (are they a channel or a provider?), and given how everyone here reacts every time Apple gives a social opinion it seems like a bit of a minefield for the brand.
That second fact seems to have led them to milquetoast content so far.
On the first point, Netflix and Amazon are facing the same conflict of interest and appear to have navigated it so far. I think loss of net neutrality is eventually going to make that channel/provider duality more treacherous to navigate, though. I think it's also part of the reason it's hard to find content-- the new Star Trek was single sourced, Disney is starting their own service and apparently pulling content from the others. There is no one-stop-shop that lets me download any movie or TV show I want to. As archaic as Blockbuster feels today, they generally had just about everything.
In general I've thought Apple going into content was a bad idea, and still do. Seems like a bit of a conflict of interest (are they a channel or a provider?), and given how everyone here reacts every time Apple gives a social opinion it seems like a bit of a minefield for the brand.
That second fact seems to have led them to milquetoast content so far.
On the first point, Netflix and Amazon are facing the same conflict of interest and appear to have navigated it so far. I think loss of net neutrality is eventually going to make that channel/provider duality more treacherous to navigate, though. I think it's also part of the reason it's hard to find content-- the new Star Trek was single sourced, Disney is starting their own service and apparently pulling content from the others. There is no one-stop-shop that lets me download any movie or TV show I want to. As archaic as Blockbuster feels today, they generally had just about everything.
And wait for Timmy to ruin it with his sjw-ing? Yeah no. I don't think so.
So, leave everything the same, but change the title? I don't get the point, since a show about time-traveling dwarves would run afoul of the Time Bandits copyright anyway, so if they're going to license the rights, why not use the name, too? It would certainly be confusing to option Time Bandits, and then call the show Temporal Thieves.
I understand your knee-jerk distaste for this project, and I've generally been on your side of the argument. For example, despite the good reviews, I had no interest in seeing Bladerunner 2049, and I absolutely hated Tron: Legacy. Neither movie needed a sequel, in my opinion.
A tv series isn't a sequel, though, and in this case, I think that the concept has the potential for greatness, particularly when the series will have input from Terry Gilliam. In the end, you may be right, but I'm hopeful that good production values and some measure of Gilliam's sensibility will combine to make something special.
Apple needs more creative remakes to fill EC's content void. How about a new series based on the recently canceled Carpool Karaoke mashed with the film Deliverance? Give it a chance -- could be a winner.
I loved all of them, but never knew they were a series. Brazil was merely a strong like tbh.
How about Apple turns that fantasy MacPro into a non-fantasy!
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Every huge tech company is converging to the same set of services because they're like more efficient versions of the older companies that used to do them, and they need to take over parts of these new markets before their competitors do.
Funny, from what I've seen, they're exclusively hiring people with computer science degrees for the automation of other jobs, replacing a lot of the system admins and management from before. I think this is the secret sauce. These CS people seem way more problem-free from the corp's point of view, with more enthusiasm, less management drama, and less unionizing. It's probably the high skill and high pay.
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I don't care about the greed. The company was cool before, and now it's not. It's like Apple in the 90s now. Maybe Steve Jobs could've applied his artistic side to these TV shows instead of letting Apple produce crap like Carpool Karaoke.