Why oh why?
Apple is close to securing a deal for the rights to turn 1980s fantasy movie "Time Bandits" into a TV series, reports Deadline.
Directed by Terry Gilliam, "Time Bandits" featured the story of an imaginative 11-year-old boy, Kevin, who gets sucked into a fantastical adventure with a band of dwarves during the Napoleonic Wars in Italy.
Kevin and the dwarves travel through time using a magical map, visiting places like ancient Greece and the Titanic and fighting off an evil being intent on stealing the map for his own purposes.
The original film starred John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Kenny Baker, David Warner, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond, Jim Broadbent, and others.
According to Deadline, the new TV series based on the movie will be a co-production between Anonymous Content, Paramount Television, and Media Rights Capital. Gilliam is set to serve as a non-writing executive producer.
If Apple secures the rights to the "Time Bandits" TV spinoff, it will join the other more than a dozen television shows Apple has in the works, which span genres from drama to comedy to shows for children.
In other related news, comedy writer Regina Hicks has signed on to be a co-showrunner for Apple's upcoming animated television show "Central Park" alongside Loren Bouchard and Josh Gad.
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It's Apple showing us the "premium content" they have planned, i.e. the same "quality" Hollywood is coming out with now.
More than half the movies I watch on the silver screen now are actually re-runs of films that came out when my age was single digits, not remakes -- thank you, Alamo Drafthouse!
I'd watch it. I'd also go for a remake of Otherworld. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_(TV_series)
I don't know if its strictly a "money grab." How old is the film? 30 or 35 years?
Most younger folks have probably never seen it. And sc-fi is all the rage. The little Millenniums will eat it up.
This could be really great if they do a good job.
Almost the entire movie industry seems to be focused on producing more reboots of superhero movies right now, and they all sell a ton of tickets. And those movies all suck.
So we get it, Apple can do nothing right.
Even before releasing their first series, it’s already a “cynical money-grab”.
Why don’t you all just ignore it then and go to SamsungRumors to see what they are doing?
And don’t reply with “but the Mac mini”, because nobody was buying it before and nobody will be buying it now, and has nothing to do with this section of Apple.
I’m sure it’s been pitched. Especially considering the sucess of Stranger Things.
You want to talk money grabs, have you seen the new Magnum P.I. series previews...
It's probably easier than developing professional quality computer hardware.
Interestingly, when Apple first rolled out their (sub-par at the time) Map app, for weeks afterwards I was wondering around saying, in my deepest scariest voice "Return the map! Return what you have taken from me!"
I understand that the team doing this is not the same as the team that looks after Macs etc, but I find it disappointing that they let iOS and Mac devices languish, when they apparently have the ability to do this stuff. Update the MacBook Air, Mac Mini, iPhone SE, iPad mini!! Even if they're just spec bumps.
When you have no new ideas, do remakes and sequels. Remaking Gilliam should only happen if Terry is the one directing.
In the jihad to ruin everyone's childhood of the 80s, nothing shall be spared.
For those that aren't aware or don't remember (I was a child of the 80s and early 90s so Time Bandits is deeply nostalgic for me) you can tell from the photo that there's no way Apple; an American mega-corporation with close ties to Disney (see executive board, Pixar etc); could make anything that remotely respects or does justice to the original enough to use the name.
I don't get this American obsession with remaking everything. You just can't recreate the feeling, vibe or look from that time period, and the works stand for themselves as a reflection of that time. That and there's no point remaking a classic when it was so good to begin with.
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I don't get this American obsession with remaking everything. You just can't recreate the feeling, vibe or look from that time period, and the works stand for themselves as a reflection of that time. That and there's no point remaking a classic when it was so good to begin with.
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I heard that Apple was going to work with Disney to remake Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns. Except now it will be for the SJW/PC crowd and Clint's character will be an overweight orange haired female. Equality!!!
I’d be more interested in Time Machine for iCloud than Time Bandits for iTunes.
At least they have the syllables right.
You literally could archive the time machine of your iCloud data... in iCloud.
iCloud is already being used for iOS backups, anyway.
Currently, there is no automated way to archive your iCloud Drive. You have to manually copy the files to disk and run a time machine backup. It kind of defeats the purpose.
At least they have the syllables right.
You literally could archive the time machine of your iCloud data... in iCloud.
iCloud is already being used for iOS backups, anyway.
Currently, there is no automated way to archive your iCloud Drive. You have to manually copy the files to disk and run a time machine backup. It kind of defeats the purpose.
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