‘Star Trek: Picard’ Showrunner Terry Matalas Tackling Remake of 1980s Sci-Fi Movie ‘Enemy Mine’ (Exclusive)

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• MamboGator@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love Enemy Mine and hated Picard, so I’ll just pretend I didn’t read this.

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Enemy Mine sure was a… movie

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not enough pew pew?

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• Hezzmana@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would he get more work? Did they not see Picard?

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  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The last season of Picard managed to turn things around. Yeah it was fan service, but it felt like tasteful fan service (mostly).

    I think if he were to get top notch creature effects artists to do practical effects work on the alien world and save the CG stuff for wide shots and space stuff, I think people would respect that.

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  • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you not seen Enemy Mine?

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s not like he could make it worse.

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  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Picard was akin to Disco for me. Lots of kernals of goodness just tossed aside for the next shiney thing.

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• lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why remake movies that are already good?

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because they are out of ideas?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They can update the production quality. The story is good; the special effects are hella dated and cheesy though.

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    • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know there was an Enterprise episode that was almost the same, I forget the TNG one though. Do you remember the name/ep number?

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know, I’d almost rather they just cgi the hell out of the original.

  There’s no way they’ll do the same script, and that’s the part that worked. The cast carried the right tone, and no amount of remaking is going to top that part. So just update any flawed effects and release it as a special event.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mirab, with sails unfurled.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just re-watched that film. It’s kinda hokey by today’s moviemaking standards. However, it’s a fantastic story and a good script. Nobody could do better than Louis Gossett jr’s (who I didn’t know just passed away this March?! Damn.) Jeriba, and Quaid’s character changing from xenophobic racist to the one who helps bring peace to the war.

  They made a huge book, The Enemy Papers that was a great read, too.

  Anyway, I wouldn’t expect a remake to either be a) any good, or b) follow the old movie. Like everything they remake the new director and scriptwriters put their own take on things. And unfortunately when you insist on a new vision for something it means you’re deliberately diverging from what the essence of the original was all about. So no, I wouldn’t expect the remake to be any good. Probably big budget on sets, but skip good character development and writing.

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