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Post by Frederick Thompson on Jan 29, 2006 17:35:14 GMT
I do not know if it is to be live or not. Personally I hope it is recorded as I guess that some of the effects will be CGI to get near the quality of the new Doctor Who and would have to be inserted and in 90 minutes the pace will have to be upped quite a bit compared with the 7 episode original. Besides Andromeda’s presumed watery end does not seem very suited to live studio work where colour balance issues could be involved if it sticks close to the original. At 90 minutes it would seem ideal to package on a DVD with remaining fragments and Episode 5 just restored to the BBC and perhaps with The Andromeda Breakthrough for a second disk.
I have been pursuing a remake for just over two years by writing to a few selected possible production companies. After seeing BBC4’s Fantasy Sixties programme last year I wrote to the BBC4 controller in May and had a letter back from Richard Fell, who has adapted this forthcoming programme, where he told me it was being considered.
For the record this contemporary adaptation will feature Kelly Reilly (Mrs Henderson Presents, The Libertine) as Christine /Andromeda; Tom Hardy (The Virgin Queen, Sweeney Todd) as John Fleming and Jane Asher as Professor Madeleine Dawnay.
I now wonder if Adam Adamant which I believe was considered for a colour remake in 1996 might be revived.
Finally I would like to congratulate all involved in recovering Episode 5.
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Post by B Thomas on Jan 29, 2006 22:23:55 GMT
...except that Episode 5 has not been recovered. What has been returned is Episode 6: Face of the Tiger
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Post by Frederick Thompson on Jan 30, 2006 12:40:04 GMT
Thanks, Mr Thomas, for the correction.
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Post by williamM on Jan 30, 2006 15:15:02 GMT
and can anyone confirm that this is this the whole episode?
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Post by Laurence Piper on Jan 30, 2006 15:22:11 GMT
[quote author=frederickthompson board=general thread=1136814487 post=1138556114 At 90 minutes it would seem ideal to package on a DVD with remaining fragments and Episode 5 just restored to the BBC and perhaps with The Andromeda Breakthrough for a second disk. .[/quote]
Personally I can't see how 7 episodes can be condensed into 90 minutes without chopping out a lot of the important characterisation / human side of the story. Mind you, I hope that if they do re-make it, they won't filmise the thing as they did with the Quatermass re-make, losing the immediacy of the live transmission in the process (which is part of what the attraction is in the first place)!
I'm all for a re-make of Adam Adamant as a series though; it's a concept that has much potential and I could see this one working. As long as they didn't do a Randall & Hopkirk on it (i.e. unsubtle fart jokes etc as they think "that's what today's sophisticated, demanding audiences want")!
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Post by Dan on Jan 30, 2006 17:38:30 GMT
Let's hope this recovery pushes forward the release of The Andromeda Breakthrough. Is audio on the Andromeda Breakthrough complete? On the copy I've seen there was 4 minutes of silence right at the end of the final episode which kindof ruined it.
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Post by ethantyler on Jan 30, 2006 19:59:33 GMT
Let's hope this recovery pushes forward the release of The Andromeda Breakthrough. Is audio on the Andromeda Breakthrough complete? On the copy I've seen there was 4 minutes of silence right at the end of the final episode which kindof ruined it. This was discussed awhile back. I'll try and find the thread, but if I remember rightly, the owner did this deliberately as a sort of signature on the copies to indicate they came from his print.
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Post by ethantyler on Jan 30, 2006 20:03:56 GMT
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Post by Andrew Pixley on Jan 31, 2006 6:24:18 GMT
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that this is the precisely the case as the pre-credit sequence (which is effectively the recap in the form of a "Face to Face" interview) is missing and apparently did not appear on the 16mm overseas prints. However, the main programme would appear to be intact and it's a quite wonderful find! Nice one Ian! Andrew
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Post by Dave Andrews on Feb 16, 2006 20:24:07 GMT
For what it's worth a transmission quality copy of A for Andromeda was certainly still in existance in 1965. I have a letter from TV New Zealand (15yrs ago) saying that according to their records they showed it in Jan/Feb of ’65, and that in October that year it was “ … sent on to Pakistan.” Unfortunately they did not have an address, nor a studio name, for the destination., so that could have been either the modern Pakistan, or Bangladesh (then East Pakistan)
I wrote to both the BBC and the National Film & Television Archive (BFI) telling them of this. The NFTVA said they would try to follow it up, but weren't hopeful; they said they would let me know if anything came of it, but I heard no more. The BBC did not reply to my letter.
Dave Andrews
(Saw it when I was 12 - it was brilliant)
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Post by Dan on Feb 16, 2006 20:50:19 GMT
And I see I posted earlier in that thread. I must've forgotten to check back. A shame he didn't mark it in a less obtrusive way. I don't suppose anyone has the missing audio they could upload as an mp3?
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Post by Frederick Thompson on Feb 20, 2006 22:02:54 GMT
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Post by Dave Andrews on Feb 21, 2006 13:20:39 GMT
Interesting that one of the main characters this time seems to be Gen.Vandenburg (US Air Force). In the book, which I remember at the time ('63) seemed to be fairly close to the original TV serial, he is a fairly minor character, certainly less important than Prof. Reinhart (Fleming's boss) or Osborne (senior Whitehall bod, Reinhart's boss) - what odds that they have been written down (or out) and Vandenburgh has been written up - for the American market ?
It'll be interesting to see this new production, but I can't help thinking that it won't have all the political power struggles in it that made the original so good. 5 & 1/4 hrs down to 2hrs is quite a cut.
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Post by Wright Blan on Feb 21, 2006 19:46:51 GMT
[quote author=frederickthompson board=general thread=1136814487 post=1138556114 At 90 minutes it would seem ideal to package on a DVD with remaining fragments and Episode 5 just restored to the BBC and perhaps with The Andromeda Breakthrough for a second disk. . Personally I can't see how 7 episodes can be condensed into 90 minutes without chopping out a lot of the important characterisation / human side of the story. Mind you, I hope that if they do re-make it, they won't filmise the thing as they did with the Quatermass re-make, losing the immediacy of the live transmission in the process (which is part of what the attraction is in the first place)! I'm all for a re-make of Adam Adamant as a series though; it's a concept that has much potential and I could see this one working. As long as they didn't do a Randall & Hopkirk on it (i.e. unsubtle fart jokes etc as they think "that's what today's sophisticated, demanding audiences want")! [/quote] Sadly, an Adam Adamant re-make would seem like an "Austin Powers" knockoff these days.
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Post by Dave Andrews on Feb 22, 2006 10:09:37 GMT
Re reply #28 - Was that plagarism (#19), or do I suffer from deja vu ?
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