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Post by OblivionGoon on May 11, 2015 8:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by krakenslayer on May 12, 2015 11:08:10 GMT -5
Due to Phantasm's time-travelling, mind-bending, dimension-hopping narrative, and the Tall Man's itinerant, shape-changing nature, I guess nothing's ever really off the cards completely. It would be quite easy to come up with, for example, a "reboot" with new cast and characters while still retaining some continuity with the original series; say, featuring A. Michael Baldwin as the Tall Man (depending on how P5 plays out) and/or a certain grizzled dimension-travelling warrior with a four-barreled shotgun following the Tall Man through from the last world he plundered and providing the new leads with some exposition and backup. No prior knowledge would be required, so it could serve as a reboot for the laypeople and a sequel for the phans. I actually wouldn't mind if the long-suspected remake came to be in this way, although it would suck if they wiped the slate clean.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 8:53:01 GMT -5
i read that, and my initial thought was "get the current movie into a releasable condition first!" PHANTASM VI, with a rejigged cast & (little to) no don? personally, i say let it die. i've gone from being cautiously optimistic when RAVAGER was announced to somewhat actively dreading it after all the information that's come out. sorry for being so relentlessly downbeat about the whole thing, guys, but that's how i feel . . . (i'll still be in line to get the PV DVD on day one... whenever that happens to be.)
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Post by jjrakman on Jun 1, 2015 9:49:36 GMT -5
I was playing around with speculating about a Part VI here a while back. But I was also wondering, if any such continuation beyond raVager, might be done best as an HBO or Netflix series. Basically, you could use the 5 Phantasm films as the backstory to a new series with Mike having taken over the job of the Tall Man. Then, a new cast of young people running around graveyards and mausoleums. You could still have guest spots with Reggie and Jody if you wanted too, perhaps casting them as a sort of Obi-Wans to a new generation of sphere fighters. Or you could place the show in a kind of post-apocalyptic setting where Mike as the Tall Man's replacement has nearly completed the Red Planet's plans for Earth, with only a few hold outs left. That could potentially lack the weird mysteriousness of it all though, which is the primary draw of the franchise for me.
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