Lawrence of Arabia ( Tv Series) (1 Viewer)

[Alex...]

Acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Roland Emmerich is set to recreate the classic film Lawrence of Arabia as a three-season television series, reported World of Reel. The ambitious project, reportedly titled In Arabia, is currently seeking a budget exceeding $100 million. Anthony McCarten, the screenwriter behind Bohemian Rhapsody, is attached to write the first season. The series is presently being pitched to potential networks.

Get ready for another 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but this time, on TV!

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[Sam Favate]

No.

Roland Emmerich should be kept far away from this property.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

 

[FincherFan]

 

[Josh Steinberg]

He did a movie about Shakespeare where his thesis was that Shakespeare wasn’t actually Shakespeare. Perhaps he’ll take a similar novel approach here.

 

[MartinP.]

Roland Emmerich should be kept far away from this property.

Everyone should be kept away from this.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Everyone should be kept away from this.

I almost say go for it. Because one of two things will happen:

1) they come up with a series that completely defies expectations and tells an incredible story brilloantly

Or

2) they lose so much money that it serves as a cautionary tale that helps slam the breaks on remaking every past glory

 

[Bernard McNair]

I believe Lawrence to be cinematic perfection and have no idea what any film maker would have to add.
I hope this project does not get funded.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

They should have passed a law when the Gone With the Wind TV sequel Scarlett came out. But they didn't, and so we had Timothy Dalton not giving a damn.

This cannot succeed compared to the timeless original, therefore I would make it about vampires, disco, and super-powered historical figures. Or something. Maybe throw in singing, amazement regarding the Year 2000, the Harlem Globetrotters, and NASCAR. All at once.

 

[TravisR]

2) they lose so much money that it serves as a cautionary tale that helps slam the breaks on remaking every past glory

You just convinced me- I'm now fully behind them making this and they should spare no expense.

 

[Wayne Klein]

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Acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Roland Emmerich is set to recreate the classic film Lawrence of Arabia as a three-season television series, reported World of Reel. The ambitious project, reportedly titled In Arabia, is currently seeking a budget exceeding $100 million. Anthony McCarten, the screenwriter behind Bohemian Rhapsody, is attached to write the first season. The series is presently being pitched to potential networks.

Get ready for another 'Lawrence of Arabia,' but this time, on TV!

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Oh God. This will be awful.

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

Anthony McCarten, the screenwriter behind Bohemian Rhapsody, is attached to write the first season.

I guess you could say, in the words of Aurens in the original: "Nothing is written." I'll see myself out now.

 

[Walter Kittel]

Will this be bad? Very likely, but Roland Emmerich does have something of a penchant for large scale productions and some of his better works have been based in desert settings. So I'll try to keep an open mind and hope that...

A) It is better than expected and
B) It exposes younger viewers to the original film.

There certainly is potential in performing a more in depth examination of T.E. Lawrence.

- Walter.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

There certainly is potential in performing a more in depth examination of T.E. Lawrence.

That's true but:

1. Don't call it Lawrence of Arabia if you don't want to invite comparisons you can't possibly live up to; and
2. Roland Emmerich isn't the filmmaker to provide a more in-depth examination of anything.

 

[Tom St Jones]

Will this be bad? Very likely, but Roland Emmerich does have something of a penchant for large scale productions and some of his better works have been based in desert settings. So I'll try to keep an open mind and hope that...

A) It is better than expected and
B) It exposes younger viewers to the original film.

There certainly is potential in performing a more in depth examination of T.E. Lawrence.

- Walter.

Unless it turns out to be a total disaster, it's more like people will say the new version is "better" as it will likely be more in line with 'current sensibilities'. Plus, should it land on Netflix or premium cable, it will probably contain explicit violence, sex, etc, which ofcourse the original does not offer.

 

[MartinP.]

Then there's the fact that arguments go on and on about T.E. being gay or not which always brings out partisanship from whomever is advocating this and often using the same research for their opinions, which gets tiresome, whatever your opinion. I'd assume that since Emmerich is gay this would be of interest somewhere or somehow, but I don't know.

For some reason I have a huge aversion to films or TV that primarily take place in deserts, whether deemed good or bad, like Lawrence of Arabia, The English Patient, The Sheltering Sky, Ishtar, Dune, Sahara and the like. They tend to start making me doze off.

 

[dana martin]

Still thinking this is a horrible idea.

No added value

A more interesting idea would have been a four season series on filmmaker's David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles with as much behind the scenes footage as possible, Interviews with anyone still here that had any part in any of their productions.

10 episodes for each director call it a "10 Views, A Documentary" if you want, covering from the first film to the last, and interview other directors who have been influenced by The Masters at their craft.

That list could get bigger and more seasons just because Kurosawa, Ford, Hawks, Spielberg, Wise, Leone.... you get the point. I just wish that someone would take on that challenge. Respectfully and reverently, but also honestly, the battles with the studios, aftermath of some of the films.

 

[GerardoHP]

OK, so Emmerich is not the greatest director but let's all calm down. This is not a remake, this is a series based on a historical figure who also happened to be gay, a fact that was barely hinted at in the Lean picture. With Emmerich at the helm, I imagine this will further explore that aspect of T.E. Lawrence's personality and how it played out in his life. If done well, it could be an interesting approach to the story.

 

[DanH1972]

OK, so Emmerich is not the greatest director but let's all calm down. This is not a remake, this is a series based on a historical figure who also happened to be gay, a fact that was barely hinted at in the Lean picture. With Emmerich at the helm, I imagine this will further explore that aspect of T.E. Lawrence's personality and how it played out in his life. If done well, it could be an interesting approach to the story.

Have you seen Emmerich's most recent output? This is going to be terribad.

 

[wheadley]

Emmerich is a director of popcorn spectacles and depth has never been a hallmark of his work. Let's hope this doesn't get made and if it does, let's hope that the issues explored in the original are not reduced to props in support of a deep examination of Lawrence's latent homosexuality-- he was so much more than just that. It would actually trivialize one of the most important cinematic works ever made-- because even that aspect of the character would be reduced to wafer thin depth by the popcorn maestro. Now if the series was about giant ants from outer space invading the earth one picnic at a time, on that one I'm all in!