Adapting successful Asian movies into Hollywood blockbusters is pretty common these days. So in a strange twist we hear that China plans on taking the popular TV series Prison Break and make it into a movie.
According to The Beijing Morning Post, the Zhongbo Media Group has acquired adaptation rights from Fox to make a 200-minute film based on the popular series, which has just been recommissioned for a third season Stateside.
I am not a fan of prison break but I know a lot of people who are. The show looks to be getting some tweaks to appeal to the Chinese market.
I didn’t see that coming.
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This ought to be interesting. Though Prison Break requires some suspension of disbelieve (ala 24), it is very entertaining, has good character development, and at times honestly suspenseful. I’m very interested in seeing how this one turns out, especially since it is not a Hollywood production.
Doesn’t it seem that fox takes an idea from a movie-and then turn it somehow into a TV series…Well lets take a look:
Shawshank Redemption-Innocent murder convict escapes prison-Prison Break
Rat Race- A group of people race to get to a bunch of money-Drive
There’s another one but I forget what its called- but the theme is something like My Best Friend’s Wedding where the show is centered on brides and their wedding…it had Ben Stiller’s girlfriend in Meet the Parents…this may of been cancelled..
The last one is The Wedding Bells- the reason I compared it to my best friend’s wedding is when I saw a clip on tv- it had some bride running away in her dress….
MrBlonde, I have to disagree with your comparison.
Shawshank isn’t exactly the first movie to involve a prison break. And Shawshank isn’t really about breaking out of prison, that was just the conclusion. And RatRace wasn’t the first to do a cross country race. CannonBall Run (and CannonBall Run 2) were doing this long before the reality show Amazing Race did it. Then came drive.
That is like comparing Lost to Gilligan’s Island, Survivor or Swiss Family Robinson.
And turn on Life Network. Half the shows there are about Weddings. I was nearly on one.
Hey Rodney,
I wasn’t directly giving the comparison from shawshank and prison break-
I was just showing that I noticed that Fox takes ideas that were once movies and turning them into TV series…and I wouldn’t doubt that Survivor and Gilligan’s somehow influenced Lost…
I don’t think this is something specific to Fox, and no matter what shows come out there is a guarantee that in some way some how some where a similar concept was done before.
Name one show that has come out in the last 5 years that was never done before?
Yes, many shows borrow from other shows to create their own style-its just when I saw the promos on TV, the comparison from TV-movie came rather quickly, and obvious to catch where they got the idea.
“Name one show that has come out in the last 5 years that was never done before?”
This caveman peice of shit idea, and Are you Smarter then a Fifth Grader?
Fifth Grader can be compared to the educational standoff seen in Billy Madison. Though Billy was an adult, he had the equivalent education of a 5th grader and manages to outwit his far more educated opponent.
Caveman is just another “fish out of water” show. Its been done a thousand times with aliens, robot kids, or even just the foreigner trying to fit in to American culture.
Hardly new ideas.
Yes, many shows borrow from other shows to create their own style-its just when I saw the promos on TV, the comparison from TV-movie came rather quickly, and obvious to catch where they got the idea.
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