My fantasy for a BR-related series...
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:40 pm
There are two new Star Wars series in our future. One is CGI animated and looks like fairly good machinima or fairly bad CGI animation. The other is a live-action show we know nothing about yet. Both will be anthology series. One will be set during the Clone Wars, fleshing out the bits about it that Genndy Tartakovski's 2D masterpiece didn't reveal. The other will be set in the period between Episode III and the original Star Wars movie.
I love the idea of anthology shows. One of my favorite shows of all time is The Twilight Zone. And of course, my favorite movie is and remains Blade Runner. There is a chance for peanut butter in chocolate/chocolate in peanut butter kind of synergy.
Welcome then, ladies, gentlemen, and replicants, to Blade Runner: The Rep-Detect Files.
The idea would be to create a hands-across-the-Pacific alliance to create the series, bringing the best talents of Japanese and US animation together to create an anthology series. An ideal choice for animation director would be Michael Arias, the man who directed the first Japanese animated feature directed by an American, Tekkonkinkreet.
The stories would be set before, concurrent with, and after the temporal locale of Blade Runner, both in Los Angeles and in other spatial locales. The writing talents of the best science fiction writers of the present day would be solicited for the series.
More minor characters like Holden and Gaff might reappear, but none of the big characters, particularly not Deckard, will be seen. The idea is to introduce new characters in the milieu, and reveal more about this world as we first saw it in Los Angeles in November, 2019. The "rules" of this world would have to be better established...for example, how much of Earth is inhabitable, where exactly the Off-world colonies are located, (I nominate Mars, Venus, the Moon and certain satellites of Jupiter, as well artificial colony stations in lagrange-point orbit of Earth and Mars.) and what has caused the damage that is pervasive on the Earth and has resulted in mass extinction of animals. Yes, I know that Phil Dick gave some explanations, but they really don't apply as much now as they did in either 1968 or 1982.
This would have to air either on HBO or Showtime or on Basic Cable (Sci-fi, Adult Swim, etc.) if it were to be done right. It would be gritty, violent and occasionally gory. The language would be raw. It would be hardboiled and intellectual at the same time. And as an animated series it would be literally limitless in what it could depict.
Yes, this is just a fantasy. But it sure felt good to imagine it.
I love the idea of anthology shows. One of my favorite shows of all time is The Twilight Zone. And of course, my favorite movie is and remains Blade Runner. There is a chance for peanut butter in chocolate/chocolate in peanut butter kind of synergy.
Welcome then, ladies, gentlemen, and replicants, to Blade Runner: The Rep-Detect Files.
The idea would be to create a hands-across-the-Pacific alliance to create the series, bringing the best talents of Japanese and US animation together to create an anthology series. An ideal choice for animation director would be Michael Arias, the man who directed the first Japanese animated feature directed by an American, Tekkonkinkreet.
The stories would be set before, concurrent with, and after the temporal locale of Blade Runner, both in Los Angeles and in other spatial locales. The writing talents of the best science fiction writers of the present day would be solicited for the series.
More minor characters like Holden and Gaff might reappear, but none of the big characters, particularly not Deckard, will be seen. The idea is to introduce new characters in the milieu, and reveal more about this world as we first saw it in Los Angeles in November, 2019. The "rules" of this world would have to be better established...for example, how much of Earth is inhabitable, where exactly the Off-world colonies are located, (I nominate Mars, Venus, the Moon and certain satellites of Jupiter, as well artificial colony stations in lagrange-point orbit of Earth and Mars.) and what has caused the damage that is pervasive on the Earth and has resulted in mass extinction of animals. Yes, I know that Phil Dick gave some explanations, but they really don't apply as much now as they did in either 1968 or 1982.
This would have to air either on HBO or Showtime or on Basic Cable (Sci-fi, Adult Swim, etc.) if it were to be done right. It would be gritty, violent and occasionally gory. The language would be raw. It would be hardboiled and intellectual at the same time. And as an animated series it would be literally limitless in what it could depict.
Yes, this is just a fantasy. But it sure felt good to imagine it.