{"id":632,"date":"2008-02-11T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2008-02-08T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T19:59:17","slug":"v-returns-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"V Returns (Maybe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years after the original <I>V<\/I> miniseries, creator Kenneth Johnson is continuing the story in a new novel and is also talking about doing a movie.  IESB.net has a chatty <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.iesb.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=4252&#038;Itemid=99\">interview<\/A> with him about the new book and potential movie.<\/p>\n<p>Have you noticed that the movie industry is currently in the process of cannibalizing the 80&#8217;s?  They&#8217;ve already done <I>Dukes of Hazzard<\/I> and <I>Miami Vice<\/I>, they&#8217;re currently remaking <I>Knight Rider<\/I> and <I>The A Team<\/I>, and now that they&#8217;re running out of more-popular material they&#8217;re turning to things like <I>V<\/I>.  Eventually they&#8217;ll be scraping the bottom of the barrel with a big-budget remake of <I>Alf<\/I>, which will signal the end of Western Civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <I>V<\/I> ruined the <I>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/I> franchise for me, because whenever ol&#8217; scarface would lurch onto the screen I&#8217;d think, &#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/Vicki_98\/characters\/willie.htm\">Willie<\/A>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also also, if they&#8217;re going to remake stuff from the 80&#8217;s, why has nobody done <I>McGyver<\/I>?  That&#8217;s just wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five years after the original V miniseries, creator Kenneth Johnson is continuing the story in a new novel and is also talking about doing a movie. IESB.net has a chatty interview with him about the new book and potential movie. Have you noticed that the movie industry is currently in the process of cannibalizing the [&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\/632"}],"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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}