Slider_Quinn21 wrote:RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:honestly, I dont think anyone would use the brand for an animated show. It requires permissions, and reduces ownership of the new thing. As a sequel of the original, people would want live action. As a reboot, I don't think anyone would see the value of putting it under the brand.
Oh I 100% agree and have made this same argument myself. I don't think there's any reason for any creator to make a new version of Sliders. You can essentially do the same concept for free without much tweaking.
My thought is only this: if Sliders were ever going to come back, it would be via Jerry O'Connell. Torme and the other creators are either too old or too out of the game for anything to have happened. Jerry is the only one who seems noticeably interested in a return because he'd be the star and he has fond memories of the experience. If Sliders were ever going to return, he'd have to be the champion.
And since Jerry is on Star Trek: Lower Decks, he has the ability to make the right networking connections in animation. He could find the right talent to either recruit someone to make a demo reel for him or at least hire the right people to get the show done the right way.
Animation also fixes several problems that a live-action story cannot. Jerry O'Connell could voice a 20-something Quinn when he cannot do that in live action. JRD can voice Arturo without possibly hurting himself in the process. And most importantly, they could do all this without a huge time commitment on their part (since Sabrina and Cleavant have their own things going on).
A live action continuation is essentially off the table now. It's too confusing and too muddled and the cast is too up in the air. A reboot doesn't make sense logistically because it's too easy to do without the rights. But an animated series gives Jerry an avenue, allows for a more flexible continuity, and allows for the ease of getting the actors back without a full acting commitment. If it's ever going to happen, I feel like animation is the only road.
And, yeah, there are drawbacks. It's not the preferred way. But I've been watching a lot of animation this year, and I think it can be done really well.
I hear you. Maybe it is a possibility. My instincts tell me it doesn't really work as a project for jerry to sheppard for a few reasons:
1) animation still takes time, and the production budget is not going to be trivial, especially compared to a low-grade version of sliders filmed on a universal lot. An overseas animation team would lower costs a bit but they are still gonna be in demand for competing projects in hollywood (and overseas) especially for any reliable company w/ some sort of quality.
2) i am just not sure the original sliders translates well to animated style. it lacks something. look at the sliders comics vs. the series. the characters come off as caricatures.
3) adult cartoons are basically snarky and foul-mouthed. it's a difference audience than the core sliders audience of yesteryear. so if you are trying to bring back something as a sequel, it is obviously with the original audience in mind. i think cartoons work better for the absurd.
just my opinion of course. i think a better avenue for jerry (and john) at this point is to go audio drama route. it would require them taking a very minimal fee, otherwise the economics for that won't even work. is jerry and john prepared to work for peanuts? I tend to think not, and i tend to think their management teams won't even let them. but for me it is the only avenue that can maybe lead to a live-action movie or series again. to proof some demand. they'd need to release the audio drama (series format) on a platform, however. they wouldn't do well driving traffic to it independently. they'd need a platform to promote it.
i do also think that since syfy is going down the tubes so bad, as a hail mary, maybe they would be willing to just do some series. super cheaply. it probably won't happen, of course. perhaps as you said, though, given how irrelevant they are, at the very least they should do a sliders animated series, if they won't do live-action.
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