Remaking a film like Escape From New York isn’t necessarily the best idea, but if anyone’s going to be in charge of such a project, Robert Rodriguez would be right up there on our list of people we’d want to get behind the camera. Thankfully, it looks like that’s exactly what will happen, as The Tracking Board is reporting that the studio has their eye on him to direct. It’s not a done deal just yet, mind you, but 20th Century Fox is certainly hoping to lock him down.
With a screenplay from Luther creator Neil Cross, the Escape From New York remake has been brewing in development for quite a while now, so it’s certainly good to hear that it’s finally getting off the ground. From what we understand, the studio hopes to reinvent the franchise, like they’ve done with the Planet of the Apes,...
With a screenplay from Luther creator Neil Cross, the Escape From New York remake has been brewing in development for quite a while now, so it’s certainly good to hear that it’s finally getting off the ground. From what we understand, the studio hopes to reinvent the franchise, like they’ve done with the Planet of the Apes,...
- 3/25/2017
- by Mark Cassidy
- We Got This Covered
Remember that Escape From New York remake that’s been brewing in development for a while now? Honestly, you may not. It’s been almost a decade since the project first materialized and there really hasn’t been a whole lot of movement on it since. Various directors have come and gone (Brett Ratner and Breck Eisner were both attached at various stages) and even big name stars like Tom Hardy and Charlie Hunnam have flirted it, but here we are, nearly 10 years later and still nothing substantial has materialized.
Apparently, Luther‘s Neil Cross is hard at work writing the current draft of the script for Fox, and it seems that finally – finally! – there’s some progress being made. To start off, The Wrap is reporting today that the remake is actually going to be more of a prequel. As such, New York City won’t have been turned...
Apparently, Luther‘s Neil Cross is hard at work writing the current draft of the script for Fox, and it seems that finally – finally! – there’s some progress being made. To start off, The Wrap is reporting today that the remake is actually going to be more of a prequel. As such, New York City won’t have been turned...
- 12/2/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Well, you certainly won't be able to call this a paint-by-numbers remake...
The Wrap has just published a report that reveals a ton of new information about the upcoming Escape From New York remake, and I must say...it sounds pretty cool. Rather than simply re-telling the same story told in the original 1981 cult classic starring Kurt Russell, this new Escape will really put its own spin on the material.
The remake is being written by Neal Cross, of the BBC's Luthor. Thanks to his work on that series, Cross is known for his ability to create interesting characters and for telling gritty, interesting stories, and so many fans rejoiced when he landed the Escape From New York job, since they felt it could spare the remake from being what other recent redos like RoboCop and Total Recall were.
And for now, it seems, Cross is rewarding people's optimism by...
The Wrap has just published a report that reveals a ton of new information about the upcoming Escape From New York remake, and I must say...it sounds pretty cool. Rather than simply re-telling the same story told in the original 1981 cult classic starring Kurt Russell, this new Escape will really put its own spin on the material.
The remake is being written by Neal Cross, of the BBC's Luthor. Thanks to his work on that series, Cross is known for his ability to create interesting characters and for telling gritty, interesting stories, and so many fans rejoiced when he landed the Escape From New York job, since they felt it could spare the remake from being what other recent redos like RoboCop and Total Recall were.
And for now, it seems, Cross is rewarding people's optimism by...
- 12/2/2016
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Yes, Twentieth Century Fox still plans on remaking John Carpenter‘s 1981 cult classic film Escape From New York. The script for the film was written by Luther creator Neal Cross, and thanks to The Wrap, we have ten story details from the remake to share with you.
The original followed a war hero/criminal named Snake Plissken who was brought in by the government to save the president of the United States after his plane crashed in New York City, which is a high-security prison in the movie.
If you don't want to know how the remake will be different and what the new story will entail, you might want to stop reading because there are spoilers ahead.
Here are the major story points of the film:
Snake Plissken's real name is revealed to Colonel Robert "Snake" Plissken.The main viallin will not be the Duke of New York. The...
The original followed a war hero/criminal named Snake Plissken who was brought in by the government to save the president of the United States after his plane crashed in New York City, which is a high-security prison in the movie.
If you don't want to know how the remake will be different and what the new story will entail, you might want to stop reading because there are spoilers ahead.
Here are the major story points of the film:
Snake Plissken's real name is revealed to Colonel Robert "Snake" Plissken.The main viallin will not be the Duke of New York. The...
- 12/2/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Michael C. Hall was already anxious about playing the role David Bowie played first in The Man Who Fell to Earth in the musical Lazarus, but the music legend's death put even more pressure on the Dexter star. In an interview with The Guardian, Hall discussed his feelings about playing Thomas Newton, a man who can't die, and how the play and Bowie's death follow a lifelong pattern for him. "I did feel that a part of my work was to empty myself out and let it move through me," Hall said. "As is often the case when you're performing,...
- 1/19/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
The cast of David Bowie's off-Broadway musical Lazarus, led by actor-singer Michael C. Hall, performed the play's haunting title-track Thursday on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Hall adopted Bowie's dramatic vibrato, emoting lines like "Look up here, I'm in heaven/ I've got scars that can't be seen" over an ethereal, jazzy atmosphere of saxophone, trombone and steel guitar.
Lazarus, staged at the New York Theatre Workshop through January 20th, is a sequel to Bowie's 1976 movie The Man Who Fell To Earth and tells the surreal story of alcoholic millionaire alien Thomas Newton.
Lazarus, staged at the New York Theatre Workshop through January 20th, is a sequel to Bowie's 1976 movie The Man Who Fell To Earth and tells the surreal story of alcoholic millionaire alien Thomas Newton.
- 12/18/2015
- Rollingstone.com
“For the first quarter of an hour, I was thinking, Here I am, this boy from Belgium, sitting opposite David Bowie,” director Ivo van Hove recalls of his initial meeting with the rock idol, who would become his colleague on the new musical Lazarus. “But I was immediately aware he was searching for an artistic collaborator, not a fan — somebody who would push the production to the extreme.”Lazarus picks up the story of alien visitor Thomas Newton (played by Michael C. Hall) 30 years after the events of the 1976 sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth (which starred Bowie). Of the 20 Bowie songs used, four are new compositions. “The songs are always there to drive the story,” van Hove explains. “There are more violent songs about the world outside, and then very romantic songs, about the longing for something more poetic and tender in life.” As you may be...
- 12/2/2015
- by Rebecca Milzoff
- Vulture
In one of his regular Uncut series of editorials following the release of Before Midnight, esteemed critic Mark Kermode posed an intriguing question; what is the perfect film trilogy? Given the subject, naturally Richard Linklater’s Before… trio was mooted, along with the more traditional suggestions of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings and The Godfather, and the perhaps most objectively reasonable pick of Toy Story. Regardless of your personal choice, there can be little doubting that movie trilogies as a whole wind up becoming divisive. There are few consistent enough to merit consideration as a perfect whole. The aforementioned Godfather is let down by its third entry, numerous notches below the masterpieces of Parts 1 & 2. Likewise Star Wars. Even Lord of the Rings suffers naysayers regarding Fellowship and Two Towers. Could it be that, in such a tricky field, The Dark Knight saga is worthy of an honorable mention?
It is a strange thought.
It is a strange thought.
- 8/4/2014
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
‘The Fifth Estate’ movie review: ‘Tasty’ but ‘opaque’ version of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange (photo: Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in ‘The Fifth Estate’) Late in the game during The Fifth Estate, Twilight director Bill Condon’s long-awaited return to helming real movies, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) glowers at close confidante Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) and hisses, “How much time you can spend with a person and still have no idea who they are.” If only Condon knew we’d be wondering the same thing about the tasty, if opaque, version of Assange he’s asking us to consider. Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer (who adapted WikiLeaks books by Domscheit-Berg and The Guardian journalists Luke Harding and David Leigh) practically luxuriate in the mysterious and contradictory motives that make Assange such a fascinating character, until we realize all The Fifth Estate has to...
- 10/3/2013
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
Hoxton Street Academy are delighted to announce that we are now auditioning for the autumn term.
Auditions will take place on Thursday 20th September and are by invitation only.
Hoxton Street Management will be recruiting for their books directly from these classes.
The classes will be taught by actor / writer / director Che Walker and Thomas Newton of HSM and run from Monday and Tuesday evenings from the 1st October and run for 8 weeks. Agents from Hoxton Street Management will watch a final performance.
Students will focus on both general acting technique and audition technique for film and TV.
To apply please email academy@hoxtonstreetmanagement.com with your full name, address, borough, Dob, age, gender, ethnicity, postal address, email address and contact number. Or use our contact form at www.hoxtonstreetacademy.com
For all details on Hoxton Street Management, including client news, contact details, etc, visitwww.hoxtonstreetmanagement.com...
Auditions will take place on Thursday 20th September and are by invitation only.
Hoxton Street Management will be recruiting for their books directly from these classes.
The classes will be taught by actor / writer / director Che Walker and Thomas Newton of HSM and run from Monday and Tuesday evenings from the 1st October and run for 8 weeks. Agents from Hoxton Street Management will watch a final performance.
Students will focus on both general acting technique and audition technique for film and TV.
To apply please email academy@hoxtonstreetmanagement.com with your full name, address, borough, Dob, age, gender, ethnicity, postal address, email address and contact number. Or use our contact form at www.hoxtonstreetacademy.com
For all details on Hoxton Street Management, including client news, contact details, etc, visitwww.hoxtonstreetmanagement.com...
- 9/7/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
For all of the outrageous vanity projects starring musicians, it is Nicolas Roeg who, on two occasions, made genuine assets out of veritable rock stars – first, Mick Jagger in his beguiling debut film Performance, and then David Bowie in the cult sci-fi The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Roeg’s film is a sci-fi of mood and atmosphere rather than narrative thrust and surprise; John Phillips and Stomu Yamashta’s airy score combines with a dazzling visual sensibility to by turns unsettle, amuse, mystify and frustrate as David Bowie’s alien, Thomas Newton, arrives on Earth in search of water.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is uniformly odd, but also compelling in large part because Newton is so far away from the prototypical little green man we expect to be visiting Earth. Not only a humanoid, he is also extremely well-prepared, utilising his advanced alien...
For all of the outrageous vanity projects starring musicians, it is Nicolas Roeg who, on two occasions, made genuine assets out of veritable rock stars – first, Mick Jagger in his beguiling debut film Performance, and then David Bowie in the cult sci-fi The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Roeg’s film is a sci-fi of mood and atmosphere rather than narrative thrust and surprise; John Phillips and Stomu Yamashta’s airy score combines with a dazzling visual sensibility to by turns unsettle, amuse, mystify and frustrate as David Bowie’s alien, Thomas Newton, arrives on Earth in search of water.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is uniformly odd, but also compelling in large part because Newton is so far away from the prototypical little green man we expect to be visiting Earth. Not only a humanoid, he is also extremely well-prepared, utilising his advanced alien...
- 6/13/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
This is a film that falls on a certain side of cult. For some viewers its pace will distract, while its lack of “straight forward” information (read storytelling dialogue) will frustrate. Meanwhile, its many dream sequences, sexual diversion and unnecessary zooms will have many screaming “over indulgence!”
Despite this, those who stick with it will find a visually arresting and poignant sci-fi which, despite some dated 1970s fashions, feels way ahead of its time in terms of its themes. After sitting through the painfully mediocre sci-fi film Battle L.A. a couple of weeks back, watching The Man Who Fell to Earth gives one a certain amount of catharsis.
Nicolas Roeg’s film deals with an alien named Thomas Newton who quite literally falls from the sky from the his dying planet Anthea. Starting off with no money, Newton devises nine different patents and with the help of lawyer Oliver V.
Despite this, those who stick with it will find a visually arresting and poignant sci-fi which, despite some dated 1970s fashions, feels way ahead of its time in terms of its themes. After sitting through the painfully mediocre sci-fi film Battle L.A. a couple of weeks back, watching The Man Who Fell to Earth gives one a certain amount of catharsis.
Nicolas Roeg’s film deals with an alien named Thomas Newton who quite literally falls from the sky from the his dying planet Anthea. Starting off with no money, Newton devises nine different patents and with the help of lawyer Oliver V.
- 3/31/2011
- by Leslie Byron Pitt
- FilmShaft.com
Who would have thought that Nine Inch Nails’ front-man, Trent Reznor would not only compose one of 2010′s best scores in The Social Network, but win an Oscar, and be tapped for more films (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)?
Killer Film revisits five films that we wish Trent Reznor would re-score. Much like how silent films get a modern composer to add a new, daring soundtrack to the film, here’s five films we’d love to hear what Reznor would do. Scores can become an entity in itself for a film, but what if his industrial ear scored these films?
Blade Runner (1982)
No offense to Vangelis, but we believe Reznor would add some ambiance to Philip K. Dick’s story that Ridley Scott adapted. It’s already a cult classic, but we have a feeling Reznor ear would lace the images with music...
Killer Film revisits five films that we wish Trent Reznor would re-score. Much like how silent films get a modern composer to add a new, daring soundtrack to the film, here’s five films we’d love to hear what Reznor would do. Scores can become an entity in itself for a film, but what if his industrial ear scored these films?
Blade Runner (1982)
No offense to Vangelis, but we believe Reznor would add some ambiance to Philip K. Dick’s story that Ridley Scott adapted. It’s already a cult classic, but we have a feeling Reznor ear would lace the images with music...
- 3/9/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
In unsurprising but welcome tidings, Howard Shore is on board to compose the music for the two Hobbit films, saying “It looks like finally it’s going to be happening. I’ll be working on it for the next three years—it’s going to consume a lot of my time and work now.”
His sweeping, ethereal themes for The Lord of the Rings form an integral part of what makes those epic films such rich, memorable, and immersive experiences.
He’s won three Oscars for his work on the trilogy; Original Score for Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King (The Two Towers not being eligible because that year the Academy had a rule disallowing scores with work from previous films), and Original Song for “Into the West” from Return of the King (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox).
Shore left Peter Jackson’s underrated 2005 King Kong remake over creative differences,...
His sweeping, ethereal themes for The Lord of the Rings form an integral part of what makes those epic films such rich, memorable, and immersive experiences.
He’s won three Oscars for his work on the trilogy; Original Score for Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King (The Two Towers not being eligible because that year the Academy had a rule disallowing scores with work from previous films), and Original Song for “Into the West” from Return of the King (shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox).
Shore left Peter Jackson’s underrated 2005 King Kong remake over creative differences,...
- 11/24/2010
- Shadowlocked
Wakefield, Nc - Deep in the woods of Raleigh, I felt the ghost of Glenn Gould. He’s been dead since 1982, but there he was at a grand piano playing the first of Bach’s The Goldberg Variations.
His body wasn’t hunched over the keyboard on his collapsible chair. He wasn’t humming away as he played. But it was unmistakably Gould. The keys of the Yamaha Dcfiiiapro were stuck in his iconic way. His music filled the classical music concert hall covered in maple and cherry wood.
How can this be? Who conjured the Canadian classical music genius? Zenph Sound Innovations figured a way to make dead fingers play. This isn’t merely a piano roll, fake stereo treatment or a new noise reduction that goes beyond Dolby.
There is no other way to describe the technological miracle except in spiritual terms. This is the closest we’ll...
His body wasn’t hunched over the keyboard on his collapsible chair. He wasn’t humming away as he played. But it was unmistakably Gould. The keys of the Yamaha Dcfiiiapro were stuck in his iconic way. His music filled the classical music concert hall covered in maple and cherry wood.
How can this be? Who conjured the Canadian classical music genius? Zenph Sound Innovations figured a way to make dead fingers play. This isn’t merely a piano roll, fake stereo treatment or a new noise reduction that goes beyond Dolby.
There is no other way to describe the technological miracle except in spiritual terms. This is the closest we’ll...
- 8/20/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
Last night, Fringe followed up its shaky music-themed episode with more fallout from Peter's revelation that he's from the other side. And we finally find out why the hybrid soldiers brought back Thomas Newton, why he was looking for a path to the other side, and who he answers to. Read on for those answers and for an analysis of the most pivotal scientific -- and character-based -- threads in "Northwest Passage."...
- 5/7/2010
- Movieline
Last night, Fringe followed up its shaky music-themed episode with more fallout from Peter's revelation that he's from the other side. And we finally find out why the hybrid soldiers brought back Thomas Newton, why he was looking for a path to the other side, and who he answers to. Read on for those answers and for an analysis of the most pivotal scientific -- and character-based -- threads in "Northwest Passage."...
- 5/7/2010
- Movieline - TVline
Ok, this was really by far the best episode on Fringe to date!
On “Northwest Passage”, we learned the true identity of the man that has crossed into our dimension... and we must say we knew who he was all along! We rate this episode our first five out of five stars, it was really that good! Soon the entire storyline of Peter and Walter Bishop(s) will unravel, and we are so excited to see what will happen next between father(s) and son.
In this episode, Peter solves a few murders in a small town in Washington. The two victims’ deaths are directly related to Thomas Newton. Newton is really always at the center of something bad, isn’t he? Makes you wonder about those on the Other Side. Are they all like Newton?
Newton is able to cut a piece of his victim’s brain to read his/her thoughts.
On “Northwest Passage”, we learned the true identity of the man that has crossed into our dimension... and we must say we knew who he was all along! We rate this episode our first five out of five stars, it was really that good! Soon the entire storyline of Peter and Walter Bishop(s) will unravel, and we are so excited to see what will happen next between father(s) and son.
In this episode, Peter solves a few murders in a small town in Washington. The two victims’ deaths are directly related to Thomas Newton. Newton is really always at the center of something bad, isn’t he? Makes you wonder about those on the Other Side. Are they all like Newton?
Newton is able to cut a piece of his victim’s brain to read his/her thoughts.
- 5/7/2010
- by jacarion@aol.com (Agent SAHM)
- TVfanatic
Tonight's Fringe episode was the exact opposite of what "White Tulip" was. Instead of a standalone story which had little impact on the overall story, we had a havy mytharc episode which featured (mostly) the return of the shapeshifting soldiers, led by Thomas Newton (Sebastian Roche). The episode also featured perhaps the most heartbreaking moment of the series so far, and you probably don't have to have three guesses to get what that was.
That sad moment was facilitated by the case of the week, which was brought on by the arrival of three new shapeshifting soldiers to this universe, who took their first forms by killing a stoner couple and using their bodies. Because without it, they'd be skinless guys with bad complexion (and before they morphed into that shape, they were huge masses of flesh sitting on a warehouse floor).
One of these three had a problem, though,...
That sad moment was facilitated by the case of the week, which was brought on by the arrival of three new shapeshifting soldiers to this universe, who took their first forms by killing a stoner couple and using their bodies. Because without it, they'd be skinless guys with bad complexion (and before they morphed into that shape, they were huge masses of flesh sitting on a warehouse floor).
One of these three had a problem, though,...
- 4/24/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Last night's Fringe marked a huge reversal from the past two weeks' filler episodes and gave us some real answers about shape-shifters and traveling between universes. In The Man from the Other Side, Thomas Newton opens a portal and gets someone he referred to as Mr. Secretary through to our universe. Peter, trying to stop Newton, realizes almost presciently that Walter kidnapped him out of the alt-world when he was young. And of course, angrily, he runs away. Now, I find it implausible that Peter could be angry at Walter for saving his life, but let's take a look at the science of last night's episode, shall we?...
- 4/23/2010
- Movieline - TVline
Last night's Fringe marked a huge reversal from the past two weeks' filler episodes and gave us some real answers about shape-shifters and traveling between universes. In The Man from the Other Side, Thomas Newton opens a portal and gets someone he referred to as Mr. Secretary through to our universe. Peter, trying to stop Newton, realizes almost presciently that Walter kidnapped him out of the alt-world when he was young. And of course, angrily, he runs away. Now, I find it implausible that Peter could be angry at Walter for saving his life, but let's take a look at the science of last night's episode, shall we?...
- 4/23/2010
- Movieline
While I was sure (and I'm sure many of you were, too) that Walter would reveal the secret to Peter last week, he chose not to, burning the tell-all letter instead. Of course, Fox's promo department didn't keep us hanging long regarding when (and if) Peter would find out. He does next week!, they hastened to tell us not a minute after "White Tulip" completed.
"I'm not from here, am I?" Peter utters in the promo, making the understatement of the week. Of course, how he finds out was still left up in the air, though I don't think Walter tells him. No, I think that it's Thomas Newton, the shapeshifting soldier from the Other Side, who tells him instead. After all, Newton's playing a kind of major role in the episode. Just look at the press release!
Newton And Shape-shifters Return On An All-new “Fringe”
Thursday, April 22, On...
"I'm not from here, am I?" Peter utters in the promo, making the understatement of the week. Of course, how he finds out was still left up in the air, though I don't think Walter tells him. No, I think that it's Thomas Newton, the shapeshifting soldier from the Other Side, who tells him instead. After all, Newton's playing a kind of major role in the episode. Just look at the press release!
Newton And Shape-shifters Return On An All-new “Fringe”
Thursday, April 22, On...
- 4/16/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Fringe's second season has really been getting into the mythology of the series while maintaining the week-to-week theme of a procedural. Episode 2.18 of the series, "The Man from the Other Side," is obviously one of those episodes — you can just tell from the title. The "Other Side," along with "Over There," is a term often used on the show to delineate the alternate universe which has been causing such a big problem for our characters. You know, big problems like shape-shifting soldiers taking on the appearance of Olivia's dead partner and plotting to kill her.
Those soldiers haven't been seen much since "Grey Matters," where they briefly kidnapped Walter. They're led by Thomas Newton (Sebastian Roche), who is also a shapeshifter. The one thing I'm still not sure about them, though, is what exactly they are. We know that they're at least partially robotic — they bleed mercury and can...
Those soldiers haven't been seen much since "Grey Matters," where they briefly kidnapped Walter. They're led by Thomas Newton (Sebastian Roche), who is also a shapeshifter. The one thing I'm still not sure about them, though, is what exactly they are. We know that they're at least partially robotic — they bleed mercury and can...
- 4/11/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
I'm sorry that Fringe has to take such a long break (no new episodes until April 1. April 1!), but it could choose no better episode to go out on than this one. The mythology-heavy "Jacksonville," both expanded the show's mythology, and it also gave us a nice little character reveal (something we already know, but another character discovered) that will be absolutely crazy to see the outcome of when Fringe returns on 4/1 with the episode "Peter."
But tonight's episode of Fringe centered on the alternate universes that have been the main mythology since the show's beginning. It appears that Thomas Newton (Sebastian Roche) is causing rifts between our universe and the parallel universe, with disasterous results.
I have to say, the writers of Fringe made the best of what could have been a bad situation. While it seems Roche was unavailable to play the role of Newton in the episode, they...
But tonight's episode of Fringe centered on the alternate universes that have been the main mythology since the show's beginning. It appears that Thomas Newton (Sebastian Roche) is causing rifts between our universe and the parallel universe, with disasterous results.
I have to say, the writers of Fringe made the best of what could have been a bad situation. While it seems Roche was unavailable to play the role of Newton in the episode, they...
- 2/5/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
I'll admit it; looking at the previews for this episode, I was rather disappointed. It looked to be one of the less engrossing episodes of the season, along with "Johari Window," and "Dream Logic." Good, but not supergood on the level of last week's "What Lies Below."
I was wrong.
"The Bishop Revival" was an example of just how good Fringe can be. The episode greatly expanded the characters of Walter and Peter, while crafting a brilliant case featuring a selective toxin that could kill people with certain genetic traits (but no one else). But the best part about this episode is not only the well-structured and interesting mystery, but the fact that it managed to produce another, better mystery that was left unsolved.
The episode concerned the aforementioned virus, which was soon revealed to have been created by Walter's own father, Robert Bishoff (he changed his surname upon emigrating from Berlin to the U.
I was wrong.
"The Bishop Revival" was an example of just how good Fringe can be. The episode greatly expanded the characters of Walter and Peter, while crafting a brilliant case featuring a selective toxin that could kill people with certain genetic traits (but no one else). But the best part about this episode is not only the well-structured and interesting mystery, but the fact that it managed to produce another, better mystery that was left unsolved.
The episode concerned the aforementioned virus, which was soon revealed to have been created by Walter's own father, Robert Bishoff (he changed his surname upon emigrating from Berlin to the U.
- 1/29/2010
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
We reported earlier this month that Fringe was going to be airing an unseen season one episode on January 11. Now, with the rediscovery of a promo (which aired after "There Is More Than One Of Everything" last season), that seems to be for this episode, it's being reported that this episode will not be a standalone, but will actually be part of season two.
Whaaat?
That's what various news sites are reporting. Fox's official FringeWiki has listed "Unearthed," the believed title of the unaired episode, as episode 2.11. Of course, this would make no sense for Fox to throw this episode into such a serialized show, especially with the more focused storyline of the new season.
The trailer, which you can watch below, was our official promo for season two which aired after the season one finale. However, after ten episodes, we haven't seen a peek of this one. It would...
Whaaat?
That's what various news sites are reporting. Fox's official FringeWiki has listed "Unearthed," the believed title of the unaired episode, as episode 2.11. Of course, this would make no sense for Fox to throw this episode into such a serialized show, especially with the more focused storyline of the new season.
The trailer, which you can watch below, was our official promo for season two which aired after the season one finale. However, after ten episodes, we haven't seen a peek of this one. It would...
- 12/23/2009
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Last night on Fringe, the show returned its focus to The Other Side as the shape-shifters return to steal portions of people's brains. They are attempting to recreate memories of the construction of the door back to The Other Side.
As Olivia and Peter race against the clock to track down the inter-dimensional baddies, Walter and his own memories are at risk. A new villain rears his (unfrozen) head, but will his cunning cost Walter his life, or will the team be able to save the good doctor?
Read our recap of "Grey Matters" if you need to get caught up, then see if you agree with our review of the episode, and what we felt worked and what did not, below:
What Didn't Work: The Tracking Device
In all honesty, just about the only thing that didn't work in this episode was the tracking device Walter implanted in his neck.
As Olivia and Peter race against the clock to track down the inter-dimensional baddies, Walter and his own memories are at risk. A new villain rears his (unfrozen) head, but will his cunning cost Walter his life, or will the team be able to save the good doctor?
Read our recap of "Grey Matters" if you need to get caught up, then see if you agree with our review of the episode, and what we felt worked and what did not, below:
What Didn't Work: The Tracking Device
In all honesty, just about the only thing that didn't work in this episode was the tracking device Walter implanted in his neck.
- 12/11/2009
- by steve@iscribelimited.com (Dr. Shepherd)
- TVfanatic
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