JohnGavin <dagdern@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Jan 8, 5:02 pm, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article
>> <ws21-83A0DD.14350108012...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bill
>> Steele <w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > The 1990s version is noteworthy mostly for its unoriginality.
>> > It was,
>
>> > AFAIK, the first ever remake of a TV series as a TV series.
>> > (In the o
> ld
>> > Hollywood sense of a remake, actually redoing the original
>> > plot.)
>>
>> The Mission Impossible revival did it first.
>>
> It would then be more accurate to say that it was the first and
> only remake of a daytime soap as a TV series. It's pretty weird
> to think that a daytime soap opera is soon to become a major
> feature film. I mean, could anyone imagine Days of Our Lives as
> a major motion picture??
>
> The 1990s version had none of the charisma or magic of the 60s
> Dark Shadows. It was completely plastic.
>
Is it really more suprising than the Bewitched movie? There's a
Welcome Back Cotter movie in the works, and a Dallas movie (with
Travolta as JR), too.
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