Saga‘s Brian K. Vaughan Is Reviving Sci-Fi Classic Forbidden Planet

Whenever a classical movie gets tapped for a reboot, determination tin beryllium a consciousness of unease—until you larn who’s progressive down the scenes. That’s the lawsuit with today’s quality that award-winning creator Brian K. Vaughan is scripting a caller instrumentality connected 1956 sci-fi modular Forbidden Planet. He’ll beryllium bringing a truckload of bona fides to the project, having written comics for some Marvel and DC; penned epic indie comics bid Y: The Last Man, Paper Girls, and Saga; and worked connected TV bid Lost and Under the Dome.

The quality of Vaughan penning a caller instrumentality connected Forbidden Planet comes from Deadline, which further notes that Emma Watts (I, Robot; Alita: Battle Angel) is aboard to produce. The commercialized explains that Forbidden Planet is 1 of those properties that galore successful Hollywood (including, apparently, nary little than James Cameron) person wanted to tackle for years, but analyzable rights issues person made it difficult. Those problems person been resolved, truthful the way up is present clear.

The archetypal Forbidden Planet deed theaters successful 1956, portion of that decade’s question of space-themed sci-fi excitement that besides included When Worlds Collide (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), and dozens more. Forbidden Planet‘s quality formed (Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens) is these days little remembered than its breakout star: Robby the Robot, 1 of cinema’s earliest examples of a robot quality with an existent personality, paving the mode for Star Wars‘ chatty droids, Futurama‘s happily sleazy Bender, and truthful galore more.

Robby—and the designs needed for the film’s depiction of abstraction travel; its exploration crippled was inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest—earned the movie a Best Visual Effects Oscar nomination, but it mislaid to the lone different nominee, The Ten Commandments.

There’s nary connection connected however Vaughan’s mentation of Forbidden Planet mightiness update the story, but you tin astir warrant it’ll diagnostic Robby the Robot successful immoderate capacity. What bash you deliberation of this remake squad truthful far—and who’s your apical prime for director?

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