Ideafication

After rediscovering the entire show on YouTube in 2008, I had an interest in seeing some sort of remake or revival, though I thought the odds of that were incredibly slim. Hardly anyone I knew near me or even on the Internet even knew that the show existed. If it was that unpopular, there wouldn’t be a driving force to make anything new related to it.

Oh well, movie time anyway:

A lot of the voice actors from the original show have moved on to other things or passed away (like Tony Jay, the voice of Megabyte), so I guess it’s only natural the “Warning, incoming game.” voice was changed, but then, half a year later, I found a 3 second clip of what appears to be demonstration footage of a Guardian character from the movie; the “Loading Guardian” text on the side also kind of hints at that. The detail is fantastic on the full-size version, but it also almost seems too detailed; the original show had very flat skin, which was fine because the characters were representing things that go on in a computer. They don’t need to look like they have skin cells.

I’m still looking forward to seeing the movie at this point, but if that Guardian is the main character, I feel like I will be disappointed. They could probably pull off an entire movie based on the goings-on in an entirely different computer, but that would initially be a let-down. I suppose seeing all the familiar characters in extreme detail and with different voices wouldn’t be that much better though, so maybe Rainmaker knows what they’re doing. Then again, some of this stuff could be out of context, like that “Loading Guardian” clip could be from one of the games. Rebooting would explain both the unusual appearance and that digital construction. There are what look like buildings loading in the background, too.

There’s also a rumor that it’s going to be a trilogy. I’m still trying to come to grips with the idea of one movie being made.