{"id":1371,"date":"2008-11-03T07:56:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2008-11-01T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:12:23","slug":"i-was-afraid-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"I Was Afraid of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since they started mining classic SF movies for remakes, I&#8217;ve eyed every headline announcing an SF &#8220;update&#8221; with trepidation, fearing that the movie they&#8217;re <del datetime=\"2008-11-01T18:56:47+00:00\">savaging<\/del> <del datetime=\"2008-11-01T18:56:47+00:00\">ruining<\/del> retelling might be <I>Forbidden Planet<\/I>.<\/p>\n<p>The Crotchety Old Fan <A HREF=\"http:\/\/crotchetyoldfan.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/01\/no-no-no-no-dear-god-in-heaven-not-again-no-no-no-nonononononono\/\">reports<\/A> that J. Michael Stracynski plans to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/hr\/content_display\/film\/news\/e3ib356467890c70c66f5453b8ea7d5fc00\">do just that<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>I am beside myself.<\/p>\n<p>If ever there was an SF movie that was a true classic, in the sense that <em>it can&#8217;t be improved upon, dammit<\/em>, FP would be it.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, guys, isn&#8217;t there anything <em>original<\/em> you can make into a movie?  How about leaving us a few unsullied gems?  Please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since they started mining classic SF movies for remakes, I&#8217;ve eyed every headline announcing an SF &#8220;update&#8221; with trepidation, fearing that the movie they&#8217;re savaging ruining retelling might be Forbidden Planet. The Crotchety Old Fan reports that J. Michael Stracynski plans to do just that. I am beside myself. If ever there was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}