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Title: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Thunderbirds are Go ! [Weta to remake]
Post by: Spigalau on February 05, 2013, 10:07:59 am

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/8263969/Weta-brings-back-Thunderbirds

      Weta Workshop plans to tackle another well-loved tale - re-inventing the Thunderbirds television series.  


          One of the UK's biggest production companies, ITV Studios, is  pairing with Weta and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures to make  Thunderbirds are Go!.   The show is set to air in 2015, 50 years after the original series launched.  


          The 26-part re-incarnation of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's iconic  puppetry series featuring the Tracy family and Lady Penelope will use  both CGI animation and live-action model sets, Weta Workshop announced.   Weta Workshop and Pukeko Pictures founder Sir Richard Taylor said  the original series was "hugely influential" on him as a child, and  therefore he was thrilled to have the opportunity to work on the  children's show.  


          "I...look forward to designing and creating an inspirational world  that will engage the imagination of a whole new generation as it did for  us nearly half a century ago."  
          Pukeko Pictures was founded in 2008 by Sir Richard Taylor, Tania  Rodger and Martin Baynton, and produced animated children's shows Jane  and the Dragon and the Wotwots.

Title: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Thunderbirds are Go ! [Weta to remake]
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on February 05, 2013, 10:09:52 am

The movie was crap, but a TV show made by Weta could be good.



However i'm not a fan of the Wotwots. Jane and the Dragon is pretty good.

Title: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Thunderbirds are Go ! [Weta to remake]
Post by: Pitchey on February 05, 2013, 10:20:15 am

Wot?

Title: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Thunderbirds are Go ! [Weta to remake]
Post by: Retardobot on February 05, 2013, 10:29:05 am

Didn't they just make a Thunderbirds movie?

I think it was called Team America or something.

Title: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Thunderbirds are Go ! [Weta to remake]
Post by: Black Heart on February 06, 2013, 11:14:12 am

I'll just put the FAIL stamp on the ink pad, in anticipation. Thunderbirds was cool in a quirky way, theres no way I can imagine it working now, any more than I could see a punch and judy remake taking the world by storm.

Title: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.... Thunderbirds are Go ! [Weta to remake]
Post by: Kopfjaeger on February 07, 2013, 03:13:50 pm

nuclear powered forest destroyer/road layer....can't wait