{"id":774,"date":"2008-07-08T07:33:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T11:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2008-07-03T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T17:02:21","slug":"disaster-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Averted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I&#8217;ve been griping about all of the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel SF\/fantasy remakes coming down the pike (like, f&#8217;rinstance, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cinematical.com\/2008\/06\/21\/could-josh-brolin-pull-off-snake-plissken\/\">Escape from New York<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sliceofscifi.com\/2008\/06\/27\/mcgowan-the-new-red-sonja\/\">Red Sonja<\/A>, oh my head), and it turns out that things could have been much, <EM>much<\/EM> worse.<\/p>\n<p>Cracked Magazine has a list of the worst movies that Hollywood almost made, including a remake of <I>Westworld<\/I> starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How the hell were they planning to explain a robotic Wild West villain with an Austrian accent? A malfunction in the voice programming? Some kind of practical joke from the maintenance guys?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Egad.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_16256_near-misses-6-worst-movies-hollywood-almost-made.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I&#8217;ve been griping about all of the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel SF\/fantasy remakes coming down the pike (like, f&#8217;rinstance, Escape from New York and Red Sonja, oh my head), and it turns out that things could have been much, much worse. Cracked Magazine has a list of the worst movies that Hollywood almost made, including a remake [&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\/774"}],"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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}