Thursday, May 27, 2010
MAYBE THIS TIME, THE RAMBALDI STUFF WILL MAKE SENSE: E! indicates that ABC is interested in rebooting Alias. The original pilot of Alias remains one of the best pilots in recent memory, with its great musical selections, immense visual style, and authentically surprising plot twist at the end about SpyDaddy's allegiances, and I don't know if there's a reason to revisit it. That said, if they're going to do so, any thoughts on casting you'd like to see? Summer Glau is a maybe too-obvious choice for Sydney Bristow, but she'd work (as would fellow Whedon alum Dichen Lachman)--any other thoughts of how to cast this or make it work?
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Carey Mulligan?
ReplyDeleteAlso, a really out there idea is for Amy Adams, but good luck on that one.
The title of the 100th episode says it all for me: There is only one Sydney Bristow.
ReplyDeleteAs a rabid fan of Alias, I just don't know how Alias minus Victor Garber/Jennifer Garner chemistry and Rambaldi kookiness is Alias. It is just another spy show.
That is a silly idea. Agree that the Garner/Garber chemistry was what made the show.
ReplyDelete(but...Laura Linney for Irina Derevko.)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a good show, too. Who will we cast to play a modern Mary Tyler Moore?
ReplyDeleteThis is stupid. Someone debunk this quickly so I can keep my angry voice from flaring up. Don't do it, ABC. To keep myself from going any further, I'll just keep it at that: Don't do something this stupid.
I feel like we put this show to bed, like, yesterday. Are we ready for another version of it this soon?
ReplyDeleteI disagree with LB and Tina, thought -- Garner/Garber/OLIN was what made that series great. As an owner of all 5 seasons, I often stop people at the end of season 2 and sit them down and ask them if they REALLY want to keep watching.
I agree with the Olin love, but her end still makes me very angry so I try not to think about it too much.
ReplyDeleteSigh. Alias was before its time.
ReplyDeleteI'm cautiously psyched about the "Nikita" reboot. . . . I agree about the impact of "Alias"s pilot, but the series never really lived up to its potential for me, whereas USA's "La Femme Nikita" got better and better. Then again, "LFN" was created and produced by the same team behind "24," which may explain my mad love for it.
ReplyDeleteI think those first two seasons were superlative fun, even if they got pretty silly if you bothered to think for one second. Alias really was the first (maybe still only) show that successfully based itself on a video game aesthetic -- a shameless Lara Croft ripoff, with a hot girl punching goons and shimmying through heating ducts to steal artifacts. And even if the payoff stunk, the Season 2 cliffhanger remains the standard by which all season cliffhangers will be judged. But it also was a show that tried and failed to reboot itself successfully several times, usually ending up mired in character reversals and mystical mumbo jumbo, both of which offered diminishing returns the umpteenth time that someone turned from bad to good to bad only so that they could steal the newest ancient artifact that would allow vaguely infinite powers. And it was weird, too, because the casting was so inspired (Bristow-Spy Daddy; Bristow-Vaughn, Bristow-Will Tippett; Bristow-Sark; Spy Daddy-Spy Mommy), and yet the acting was so terrible. Garner owned the role but made me laugh every time she had to look sad or reflective, and the accents, forget it. I am right now cracking myself up just thinking of Carl Lumbly playing Jamaican.
ReplyDeleteHow, realistically, would I cast it? Build a decent supporting cast willing to work in what essentially is B-movie mode -- maybe Brandon Routh as Vaughn, Terry O'Quinn (a returnee!) as Spy Daddy, something like that -- and then read every Division I high jumper or javelin thrower with good teeth and silky hair. You ought to be able to find someone who can act at least as well as Garner, and the harder part of the casting is finding someone athletic enough to be believable in fight scenes.
That was me.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the threadjack, but I just noticed the Amazon Gold Box deal of the day is the full series collection of West Wing for 99.99- thought there might be 1 or 2 people here who would find that interesting!
ReplyDeleteShe's awesome and all, but Adams is only two years younger than Jennifer Garner. Carey Mulligan, though, that's inspired.
ReplyDeleteLena Olin is the hottest woman on earth. I'm as straight as they come, but DAMN.
ReplyDeleteShe was so perfectly cast in that role, and watching her with Garber..... why would you remake this???
Lena Olin is the hottest woman on earth. I'm as straight as they come, but DAMN.
ReplyDeleteShe was so perfectly cast in that role, and watching her with Garber..... why would you remake this???
We know.
ReplyDeleteI always forget that Adams has been around for a lot longer than I think (hell, she was Tara's cousin on Buffy).
ReplyDeleteAnd now I'm wondering, who do you get to replace Alan Rifkin? Miguel Ferrer?
ReplyDeleteDear Paul, where were you when I started watching seasons 3 and again at season 4 and again at season 5? Also that pent up anger caused me to refuse to watch Lost until it ended because I had learned my lesson. Now wonder if I should actually watch Lost at all?
ReplyDeleteCan there be some statute of limitations on the minimum amount of time that has to pass before a tv series or film can be remade?
ReplyDeleteMichael Emerson, of course. I hear he has some time now that his other little show is over.
ReplyDelete(I am still against this whole idea, but I would love to see Michael Emerson play conflicted "bad guys" forever).