I would recommend watching this actually... It's a pretty cool, neat, low budget Sci-Fi horror effort, probably Vin Diesel's best film.... :lol:
The plot of Planet of the Dead sounds VERY similar.... But, what else can you expect Russell Davies....? It sure aint the first time he's ripped off plots from other films or even earlier episodes of Dr Who.... I remember one episode during season 3 of Dr Who which just rather ripped off Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine" which was also a film about a spaceship flying directly into the sun.... The one about the spaceship crashlanding into the sun and there was this mad killer on board the ship who had been posessed by aliens, blah, blah... And not only that, they, ahem, "cleverly" decided to invert the US series "24", by calling it "42" and claiming the episode was set in "real time"...
I've noticed that on most of these "off world" episodes in particular from Dr Who, there have been certain rather obvious similarities to old or recently released sci fi flicks...
Mind you, in saying this, I hardly think that Planet of the Dead could be any worse than that sh"tty Christmas episode with the "cyber king", which frankly just came off looking like a bad episode of Power Rangers crossed with one of the Japanese "Gojira" films
Mysterious, desert planet with a "terrifying secret" underneath the sands....? Deadly swarms....?
OH COME ON!!!!! Do the producers of Dr Who think we aint seen Pitch Black then....???? ROFLMAO
At least it's not a coincidence this time - the episode 42 (first aired May 2007) had a very similar plot to Sunshine, released the month before.
At least it's not a coincidence this time - the episode 42 (first aired May 2007) had a very similar plot to Sunshine, released the month before.
I'm really not sure it was so much of a coincidence tbh.... "Sunshine", being a feature film, would be in the pre-production/production/post-productions stages for at least a year to 18 months before actually being released.... Whereas, an episode of a TV show takes far less time to produce... Alex Garland and Danny Boyle probably wrote the script a good TWO years (prob more) before the film's eventual release date.... So, a film released in 2007, would probably have had the first draft of the script done in 2005 or thereabouts, perhaps even earlier.... The producers of Dr Who would almost certainly have been aware of "Sunshine" being made.....
I haven't actually seen "42", but for spaceship-heading-toward-the-sun check out the sun probe episode of Thunderbirds, surely that predates Sunshine and Dr Who.
I haven't actually seen "42", but for spaceship-heading-toward-the-sun check out the sun probe episode of Thunderbirds, surely that predates Sunshine and Dr Who.
A good 40-odd year gap between Thunderbirds and Sunshine though, innit....? :rolleyes: I just got the impression that with the "42" episode that it was far more blatantly designed to coincide with the fact that Sunshine was in the cinema almost literally in the same month more or less....
Ah ok, I get what you mean.
What I was getting at was that in sci-fi the concepts are being recycled all the time. It's usually just the characters and how they deal with the situations that differ.
I read the Langoliers recently and I didn't realise that the exact same concept of the story was originally done in the Twilight Zone.
I read the Langoliers recently and I didn't realise that the exact same concept of the story was originally done in the Twilight Zone.
Yeah, and it took the adapted mini-series almost three brain-numbing hours to do what the Twilight Zone managed in under 30 minutes..... :rolleyes:
I haven't actually seen "42", but for spaceship-heading-toward-the-sun check out the sun probe episode of Thunderbirds, surely that predates Sunshine and Dr Who.
Which was obviously inspired by the anti-Nuclear weapon Sci-Fi disaster drama British movie "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" (1961).
Where the Soviet Union and the USA have detonated nearly-simultaneous nuclear bomb tests, leading to the Earth moving out of its orbit and towards the sun. Increasing heat from the sun causes the water on Earth to evaporate, and consequently the governments have to ration water. Scientists conclude that the only one way to bring Earth back into its orbit is to detonate a series of nuclear bombs in the west of Siberia......
Mysterious, desert planet with a "terrifying secret" underneath the sands....? Deadly swarms....?
OH COME ON!!!!! Do the producers of Dr Who think we aint seen Pitch Black then....???? ROFLMAO
erm...... i havnt!
I've not seen that movie either :P I've seen lots of people say it looks similar though.
I got a Midnight vibe of it. Not that I mind, I absolutely loved Midnight :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/
I would recommend watching this actually... It's a pretty cool, neat, low budget Sci-Fi horror effort, probably Vin Diesel's best film.... :lol:
The plot of Planet of the Dead sounds VERY similar.... But, what else can you expect Russell Davies....? It sure aint the first time he's ripped off plots from other films or even earlier episodes of Dr Who.... I remember one episode during season 3 of Dr Who which just rather ripped off Danny Boyle's film "Sunshine" which was also a film about a spaceship flying directly into the sun.... The one about the spaceship crashlanding into the sun and there was this mad killer on board the ship who had been posessed by aliens, blah, blah... And not only that, they, ahem, "cleverly" decided to invert the US series "24", by calling it "42" and claiming the episode was set in "real time"...
I've noticed that on most of these "off world" episodes in particular from Dr Who, there have been certain rather obvious similarities to old or recently released sci fi flicks...
Mind you, in saying this, I hardly think that Planet of the Dead could be any worse than that sh"tty Christmas episode with the "cyber king", which frankly just came off looking like a bad episode of Power Rangers crossed with one of the Japanese "Gojira" films
At least it's not a coincidence this time - the episode 42 (first aired May 2007) had a very similar plot to Sunshine, released the month before.
I'm really not sure it was so much of a coincidence tbh.... "Sunshine", being a feature film, would be in the pre-production/production/post-productions stages for at least a year to 18 months before actually being released.... Whereas, an episode of a TV show takes far less time to produce... Alex Garland and Danny Boyle probably wrote the script a good TWO years (prob more) before the film's eventual release date.... So, a film released in 2007, would probably have had the first draft of the script done in 2005 or thereabouts, perhaps even earlier.... The producers of Dr Who would almost certainly have been aware of "Sunshine" being made.....
A good 40-odd year gap between Thunderbirds and Sunshine though, innit....? :rolleyes: I just got the impression that with the "42" episode that it was far more blatantly designed to coincide with the fact that Sunshine was in the cinema almost literally in the same month more or less....
Ah ok, I get what you mean.
What I was getting at was that in sci-fi the concepts are being recycled all the time. It's usually just the characters and how they deal with the situations that differ.
I read the Langoliers recently and I didn't realise that the exact same concept of the story was originally done in the Twilight Zone.
Yeah, and it took the adapted mini-series almost three brain-numbing hours to do what the Twilight Zone managed in under 30 minutes..... :rolleyes:
Which was obviously inspired by the anti-Nuclear weapon Sci-Fi disaster drama British movie "The Day The Earth Caught Fire" (1961).
Where the Soviet Union and the USA have detonated nearly-simultaneous nuclear bomb tests, leading to the Earth moving out of its orbit and towards the sun. Increasing heat from the sun causes the water on Earth to evaporate, and consequently the governments have to ration water. Scientists conclude that the only one way to bring Earth back into its orbit is to detonate a series of nuclear bombs in the west of Siberia......