A remake of 1956’s Forbidden Planet is in the works at Warner Bros.
Forbidden Planet was directed by Fred M. Wilcox and stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen. The movie is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and is widely considered to be one of the best sci-fi flicks of the 1950s.
Per Deadline, Warner Bros. is now working on a new version of Forbidden Planet.
What do we know about the Forbidden Planet remake?
The Forbidden Planet remake is being written by Brian K. Vaughan, who is known for writing comic book series such as Saga, Paper Girls, Runaways, Y: The Last Man, and more. Emma Watts will produce the film.
“It has never had a big-screen remake — though James Cameron reportedly once considered it — partly because the rights were complicated and difficult to untangle,” Deadline’s article notes. “The studio and Watts finally got that major obstacle out of the way. The former studio chief Watts has leaned into producing the big ambitious tentpoles she shepherded from the executive suites, and this has the makings to be one of those.”
Plot details and casting information for the Forbidden Planet remake remain under wraps at this time.
A description of the 1956 movie reads, “A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that’s home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby…and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.”
A release date for the Forbidden Planet remake has not been announced.
