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    Gerry Anderson's UFO Gets A Director, But Will There Be A Fashion Consultant?

    Concept Artist Ponders The Reimagining Of UFO, BSG Style

    UFO Creator Gerry Anderson Reacts To Movie Remake

    British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen

    Must See: Space: 1999
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    07/23/09

    In reply to Gerry Anderson's UFO Gets A Director, But Will There Be A Fashion Consultant?
    Very SHADO-delic...

    heh.
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    07/23/09

    In reply to Gerry Anderson's UFO Gets A Director, But Will There Be A Fashion Consultant?
    I nominate Catherine Adair (Mann & Machine, Babylon 5) for the job.
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    Image of cljohnston108 cljohnston108
    07/23/09

    @Alessar: Wow, I haven't seen anybody mention Mann & Machine in ages! Loved Yancy Butler in that!
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    07/24/09

    @cljohnston108: I know, I still think of her fondly for that show.
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    Image of rotwang rotwang
    07/23/09

    In reply to Gerry Anderson's UFO Gets A Director, But Will There Be A Fashion Consultant?
    No need for a fashion consultant - those Moonbase outfits look fine just as they are. *ah, Antonia and Gabrielle, how you...erm... brightened up my teenage years*
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    Edited by rotwang at 07/23/09 12:07 PM rotwang was starred rotwang was unstarred
    Image of ZanipoloHaobo ZanipoloHaobo
    07/23/09

    In reply to Gerry Anderson's UFO Gets A Director, But Will There Be A Fashion Consultant?
    Space 1999 is the spiritual successor to UFO.

    Don't knock those bangs though, they are the best!
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/23/09

    @ZanipoloHaobo: In more ways than one. Moonbase Alpha was actually expanded from the UFO Moonbase which is why they look similar.
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    Image of Garnet Lynne Garnet Lynne
    07/23/09

    In reply to Gerry Anderson's UFO Gets A Director, But Will There Be A Fashion Consultant?
    I'm confused, this looks like space 1999, or did everyone in that era have the strange bangs??
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    alphanumeric1971 promoted this comment Garnet Lynne was starred Garnet Lynne was unstarred
    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/23/09

    @Shelley Colvin: Nahhh, Space:1999 Didn't have ribbed jumpsuits. Their's were flat and more of an earth-tone.
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    Image of GodofMonkeys GodofMonkeys
    07/23/09

    @Shelley Colvin: What alphanumeric1971 said. Though everyone did have strange bangs. We're talking about the 1970's, after all. A little LSD and a writing pad and you've got a TV series.
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    Image of draculatrophy draculatrophy
    07/23/09

    @GodofMonkeys:

    SPACE: the final most inversive lonely stretch of multi-dimensional rainbow goo...THE MOVIE!
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    07/23/09

    @draculatrophy:
    Pretty much sums up a lot of Space 1999 eps.
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    Image of Digbyzzzz Digbyzzzz
    06/10/09

    In reply to Concept Artist Ponders The Reimagining Of UFO, BSG Style
    I remember enough of this series to seriously wonder why they would ever redo it. Might work as a porno.


    From what I remember:

    Twirly UFO race wants to conquer Earth. Their brilliant strategy, after traveling through space at incredible speeds, is to slow way down and go at it 3 or 4 Twirlies at a time, every week or so. The invaders from the video game Space Invaders are master war strategists next to these idiots.


    Meanwhile, humanity has this secret moon base where women all have purple hair and wear really tight silver outfits. The men dont care much about fashion on the moon, they are too busy piloting 3 or 4 white space fighter planes, each equiped with only one big old missile at the tip. That's enough to take care of all but one of the Twirlies.


    The remaining Twirlie would be handled by the crack team on Earth. This consists of manly men with sideburns who wear polyester suits, drive Lamborghinis and constantly hit on the female staff who on Earth can have different styles of hair but must wear really really short skirts, probably because of increased gravity.


    They all look very worried about the leftover Twirlie for forty minutes or so. If civilians were to find out there are space aliens trying to invade Earth riding Frisbies, they would freak out! They would freak out even more about the massive amounts of money wasted on Lamborghinis, leisure suits, mini skirts, purple wigs, aluminum foil, moon based space planes with phallic missiles, etc...


    But, not worries. By the end of the show, the men are back to the more pressing concern of flirting with the hotties.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/10/09

    @Digbyzzzz: THANK YOU. I thought I'd wandered into an alternate universe where UFO had actually been a good show, the way everyone was praising it.

    I saw it the first time around, and it was stupid back then. Worse than old school BSG.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    06/11/09

    @Digbyzzzz: You only missed fact that the Twirly ship corrodes and blows up if it's in Earth's atmosphere too long (Great idea, Bzgnak, should've sprung for the paint protection at Honest Higlux's Used Twirlycraft), their harvesting humans for body parts, and the mesh outfits worn on Skydiver.
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    Image of AriellaDrury AriellaDrury
    06/07/09

    In reply to UFO Creator Gerry Anderson Reacts To Movie Remake
    Thunderbird movie: F.A.G.

    This time, hire the fellow who designed all these vehicles back then, with a point for the merchandising. He didn't get a penny for the originals.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    06/07/09

    @AriellaDrury: Derek Meddings passed away sometime ago :(
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/07/09

    In reply to UFO Creator Gerry Anderson Reacts To Movie Remake
    Am I the only one old enough to remember how badly UFO was dissed when it came out, both by critics and fans? How everyone said it was so inferior to Anderson's previous work, and the jokes about how the actors in this were more wooden than the marionettes in the other shows?
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    Image of Xicer Xicer
    06/07/09

    In reply to UFO Creator Gerry Anderson Reacts To Movie Remake
    Why why WHY are there so many remakes coming out???
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    06/07/09

    @Xicer: well since UFO did'nt actually have a Movie made of it, this is not a remake.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    05/27/09

    In reply to British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen
    "UFO isn't as well-known today as some of Gerry Anderson's other shows"


    I don't think that word means what you think it means...

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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    05/22/09

    In reply to British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen
    Daniel Craig as Ed Stryker = frickin awesome.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    05/22/09

    In reply to British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen
    Out of all the television theme music I've heard, the only television music that was cooler than the UFO opening theme music was the incidental music they used launching the interceptors!


    Seriously. A little over a minute of electric bass with minimal percussion as the pilots scrambled for launch. Damn! It was cool!


    I'd like to see a throw down match between Barry Gray and Alexander Courage!

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/22/09

    @corpore-metal:


    Interceptors to Immediate Launch

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/22/09

    In reply to British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen
    now.. don't go changing the Mobiles design... those rock...
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    Image of Kurt Roithinger Kurt Roithinger
    05/22/09

    In reply to British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen
    i thought the series had some pretty solid stories and was well worth watching. if i recall right, space: 1999 was what evolved out of a proposed second season of UFO, set pretty much on their moonbase only.


    btw, in terms of pure cheese, space: 1999 (imo) wasn't near the original BSG. of course, as cheesy as BSG was...there was always buck rogers...

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    Image of EBone EBone
    05/22/09

    @Kurt Roithinger: ...or Lost in Space
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    Image of Plague Plague
    05/22/09

    In reply to British Cult Classic UFO Is Headed To The Big Screen
    Loved this show.

    Need a refresher.
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