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After being announced a year ago, the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet is finally on the road to being remade as the screenplay for the movie is in the works.  J. Michael Straczynski (Changeling, Babylon 5) is penning the feature for Warner Bros.
The first film was based loosely on William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and although this [...]

J. Michael Straczynski, who created Babylon 5, is writing the script for a “reboot” of Forbidden Planet, the famous 1956 movie that brought Shakespeare’s The Tempest to outer space.
Staczynski promised to be faithful to the original: “There’s a little more action, but it’s still a strong character piece, because it’s based on The Tempest and the [...]