| Tango01 | 12 Aug 2016 12:13 p.m. PST |
"Let us, gentle readers of FWS, take stock of our beloved sub-genre of science fiction and wonder together on its fate and future. With the continued downturn popularity of the HALO games, books, and comics, it seems that our once hallowed franchise that served as an ambassador of the entire universe of military sci-fi, is in critical condition and fading quickly. Killzone never made the splash it needed to, and Destiny….well, Destiny is not what we expected, and it cannot fulfill the mantle of HALO. Besides video games, Battlestar Galactica is gone, and its replacement, Blood & Chrome was stillborn. The Forever War movie is still in developmental hell and the Old Man's War television series or film or both, are still in development. The much rumored and promised new ROBOTECH television series is most likely dead and buried…"
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| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 12 Aug 2016 12:42 p.m. PST |
Star Wars
Star Trek
ID4 These will be our ongoing when will it ever end franchises. And if you don't believe me, look no further than The Phantom Menace and The Final Frontier as movies that should have killed entire franchises but didn't. |
| Paint it Pink | 12 Aug 2016 1:17 p.m. PST |
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Edge of Tomorrow
Terminator
Aliens
Transformers |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 12 Aug 2016 2:26 p.m. PST |
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 javelin98  | 12 Aug 2016 4:23 p.m. PST |
I think ID4 is dead. The sequel put a nail in that coffin, since it lost $60 USD million. What studio is going to throw good money after bad? "Terminator" is already an ongoing series. I'd like to see something akin to Ian Douglas's "Semper Mars" series, or maybe something similar to BattleTech. Or, another thought, a series following a unit of Starfleet Marines! |
| Gunfreak | 13 Aug 2016 7:14 a.m. PST |
I want my propper stargate back.
SG1 and Atlantis where great action military sci fy with great humor and universe. Then came stargate universe. Most of the humor was gone. Most of the action. Instead you get infighting. Teenage drama ect. It would be like star wars suddenly became a lars von trier movie. Horrible. They probably tried making a BSG copy. (BSG lasted 5 seasons with spinn offs, while stargate lasted 15 seasons)
Stupid trying to make a copy of something with less stamina then what you already got. |
| Tango01 | 13 Aug 2016 10:39 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 13 Aug 2016 10:47 a.m. PST |
Good idea!…. Amicalement
Armand |
| Giles the Zog | 14 Aug 2016 8:25 a.m. PST |
The Lost Fleet (Jack Campbell) Would need some tight editing as the books are little bit flabby and repetitive. On the upside, its similar to BSG in terms of a fleet os ships cut off from any support (their home worlds). It would also be economical as the initial series of books involve two human factions so no rubber headed aliens to CGI. Long term, there are aliens that they barely meet (one lot blow themselves up rather than be captured, another whilst physically captured commit suicde). On the harder edge of the sci-fi range. |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 15 Aug 2016 1:09 p.m. PST |
I'd suggest a reboot of an existing property might be quite likely. It will also be interesting whether or not the success of GoT results in serious epic sci-fi TV series on a similar scale? If Diseny want to pump the SW franchise for all its worth the KoTR background would be good starting point for such a venture. Personally I'd like to see Hamilton's Commonwealth series done like that, not mil sci-fi I know, and not likely to happen. Can't see Forever War making it as a film personally – possibly a good thing! And equally thankfully anything by IMB. |
