I can think of a lot of shows with multiple spinoffs (NCIS, Law and Order, Star Trek (especially if you include the streaming shows); but I can't think of one based on a movie or movie series.
The TV series inspired by the original movie is not on broadcast television. Neither are its verious existing and planned spinoffs.
The original movie and its first official sequel are classics.
The remaining sequels from the writer/director are ok, but not on the same level.
The unofficial sequel by the co-writer took a more comedic approach and actually mentions the original movie as a "true story" whose details were altered to prevent a mass panic. Needless to say, that's as fictional as the original. We hope.
When the original writer-director died, my original response was... are... we... sure?
A funny thing happened to the copyright on this series of movies.
Someone accidentally left the copyright notice off the original. At the time, that put the movie in the public domain and cost the producers $millions.
A handful of movies are considered official sequels, with the same director and writer.
There are other movies that serve as sequels, the first of which was written by a co-writer of the original. The two writers amicably agreed to distinguish their sequels from each other by the inclusion or omission of a single word in the title of each.
A handful of current TV series owe their existence to the original (and the failure to copyright it).
If the question is about the name of the movie (I can't find the actual question), then the original was "Night of the Living Dead" was accidentally released into the public domain. It was followed by George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead" (and possibly Afternoon Tea of the Dead.)
Apparently, "Return of the Living Dead" (a sorta-comedy) was a sequel as well, with "LIVING" as the word that divides the sequels.
If the answer was in the TV shows, George pointed out that the "Walking Dead" series are all inspired by them- "Fear the Walking Dead" included.
The movies also inspired other movies like "Zombieland" and "Shaun of the Dead" (that one I watched and actually liked, somewhat. Zombie movies aren't my thing.)
Apparently I was writing this but never finished it:
There's broadcast and there's streaming. And there's the third basic option. Cable.
Cable opens it up to A&E, AMC, FX, Freeform, TBS, TNT, ETC (which isn't a network but should be).
So it's a cable show. Based on a classic movie that had official and unofficial sequels that are all fairly well known.
EVERYONE has heard of the original movie. I would wager just as many have heard of the first official sequel. The rest, not so much.
By the way, the original and first official sequel were both remade decades later. The director of the first remake has had a less than distinguished career. You've likely never heard of him.
You've heard of the director of the sequel remake...
And that's as far as I got.
So if I'm not mistaken in how I phrased it, I was looking for the movies and official/unofficial sequels, which Wordwolf got right, complete with analysis. But The Walking Dead (and Fear the Walking Dead, and Walking Dead World Beyond, and at least three upcoming spinoffs) was the tv show.
If you've never seen Return of the Living Dead, it is absolutely hilarious (and gory, and sick, and yuck).
One US President received notices about one of his generals. Some people didn't like that general, and attempted to portray him as a drunkard. The President replied to those notices. He asked them to find out what it was he was drinking. The President said he was interested in sending a few barrels of that to EACH of his generals, to see if he could get the same winning results from all of them. The criticisms stopped.
The truth of the matter is that one general DID have a REPUTATION as a drinker. He could get drunk easily, and a few years before, he'd lost his wife and child, so he had drunk a bit then. At the present time, he was sober and NOT drinking. However, reputations can be hard to shake, even if they were unwarranted the entire time.
Anyway, which US President is this about, and which general?
I guess so then. It does seem to me though as you were describing the scenario that a president with that much wit and wisdom would be Abraham Lincoln. How about President Lincoln and General Ambrose Burnside? I haven't read a lot about Grant, he would seem obvious, but I don't think Ulysses S Grant stopped drinking?
I guess so then. It does seem to me though as you were describing the scenario that a president with that much wit and wisdom would be Abraham Lincoln. How about President Lincoln and General Ambrose Burnside? I haven't read a lot about Grant, he would seem obvious, but I don't think Ulysses S Grant stopped drinking?
That's close enough to count.
The President in this story is Abraham Lincoln. The general is Ulysses S. Grant. Grant wasn't a complete teetotaler, but he drank little most of the time. His reputation as a boozer was partly because he wasn't that big, so it was easier for him to get drunk. (Try getting William Howard Taft drunk- that would take a lot of booze.) Because it was possible, he usually watched his drinking. So, his reputation as a boozer was largely exaggeration.
Also, Grant's character was distorted in history by the same people who made Robert E. Lee out to be a patriotic hero fighting for states' rights rather than a traitor fighting to preserve slavery.
In Vaughn Meader's "The First Family" album, there was a skit about Kennedy's entourage getting pulled over for speeding in a southern state. Could that have been based on a real episode? (In other words, was it Kennedy?)
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GeorgeStGeorge
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You've got that right. Amen brother.
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Don't patronize me.
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GeorgeStGeorge
Back to the game.
I can think of a lot of shows with multiple spinoffs (NCIS, Law and Order, Star Trek (especially if you include the streaming shows); but I can't think of one based on a movie or movie series.
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I'm not sure what's current where.
With shows like "the Bates Motel" and so on, how about "Psycho"? That had sequel movies.
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No.
The movies have been around for a long time.
The TV series inspired by the original movie is not on broadcast television. Neither are its verious existing and planned spinoffs.
The original movie and its first official sequel are classics.
The remaining sequels from the writer/director are ok, but not on the same level.
The unofficial sequel by the co-writer took a more comedic approach and actually mentions the original movie as a "true story" whose details were altered to prevent a mass panic. Needless to say, that's as fictional as the original. We hope.
When the original writer-director died, my original response was... are... we... sure?
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If all of the TV shows are streamed, I probably haven't watched any of them, though I might have heard of them.
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The Walking Dead (?)
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If the question is about the name of the movie (I can't find the actual question), then the original was "Night of the Living Dead" was accidentally released into the public domain. It was followed by George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead" (and possibly Afternoon Tea of the Dead.)
Apparently, "Return of the Living Dead" (a sorta-comedy) was a sequel as well, with "LIVING" as the word that divides the sequels.
If the answer was in the TV shows, George pointed out that the "Walking Dead" series are all inspired by them- "Fear the Walking Dead" included.
The movies also inspired other movies like "Zombieland" and "Shaun of the Dead" (that one I watched and actually liked, somewhat. Zombie movies aren't my thing.)
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Apparently I was writing this but never finished it:
There's broadcast and there's streaming. And there's the third basic option. Cable.
Cable opens it up to A&E, AMC, FX, Freeform, TBS, TNT, ETC (which isn't a network but should be).
So it's a cable show. Based on a classic movie that had official and unofficial sequels that are all fairly well known.
EVERYONE has heard of the original movie. I would wager just as many have heard of the first official sequel. The rest, not so much.
By the way, the original and first official sequel were both remade decades later. The director of the first remake has had a less than distinguished career. You've likely never heard of him.
You've heard of the director of the sequel remake...
And that's as far as I got.
So if I'm not mistaken in how I phrased it, I was looking for the movies and official/unofficial sequels, which Wordwolf got right, complete with analysis. But The Walking Dead (and Fear the Walking Dead, and Walking Dead World Beyond, and at least three upcoming spinoffs) was the tv show.
If you've never seen Return of the Living Dead, it is absolutely hilarious (and gory, and sick, and yuck).
Anyhow, you guys can debate who goes next.
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Almost forgot.
The remake of Dawn of the Dead was helmed by Zack Snyder.
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WordWolf
I thought he meant the movies based on how he started the clue. How would you call that one, George?
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It wasn't clear to me whether the TV shows or movies were the answer, but you go ahead.
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The following story is made up, which is a shame.
One US President received notices about one of his generals. Some people didn't like that general, and attempted to portray him as a drunkard. The President replied to those notices. He asked them to find out what it was he was drinking. The President said he was interested in sending a few barrels of that to EACH of his generals, to see if he could get the same winning results from all of them. The criticisms stopped.
The truth of the matter is that one general DID have a REPUTATION as a drinker. He could get drunk easily, and a few years before, he'd lost his wife and child, so he had drunk a bit then. At the present time, he was sober and NOT drinking. However, reputations can be hard to shake, even if they were unwarranted the entire time.
Anyway, which US President is this about, and which general?
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Human without the bean
I'm thinking this is a later president than Lincoln, so let's have a go at Harry S Truman and General Douglas MacArthur.
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WordWolf
Wrong president, your thinking is incorrect.
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I guess so then. It does seem to me though as you were describing the scenario that a president with that much wit and wisdom would be Abraham Lincoln. How about President Lincoln and General Ambrose Burnside? I haven't read a lot about Grant, he would seem obvious, but I don't think Ulysses S Grant stopped drinking?
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That's close enough to count.
The President in this story is Abraham Lincoln. The general is Ulysses S. Grant. Grant wasn't a complete teetotaler, but he drank little most of the time. His reputation as a boozer was partly because he wasn't that big, so it was easier for him to get drunk. (Try getting William Howard Taft drunk- that would take a lot of booze.) Because it was possible, he usually watched his drinking. So, his reputation as a boozer was largely exaggeration.
Your turn!
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Also, Grant's character was distorted in history by the same people who made Robert E. Lee out to be a patriotic hero fighting for states' rights rather than a traitor fighting to preserve slavery.
Not politics. History.
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So it's Human's turn.
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Human without the bean
Ken Burns documentary was pretty good too.
Let's stay with US presidents. Which US president received a speeding ticket while in office?
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Does Franklin Pierce count? He got drunk and ran over somebody ON HORSEBACK while he was in office.
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Human without the bean
Yes, he would count if he was in office at the time. He may have been cited but it wasn't for speeding. So no, he's not the president in question.
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In Vaughn Meader's "The First Family" album, there was a skit about Kennedy's entourage getting pulled over for speeding in a southern state. Could that have been based on a real episode? (In other words, was it Kennedy?)
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No, the president in question didn't have that much horse power in those days.
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