Slider_Quinn21 wrote:Grizzlor wrote:Torme does not appear to be that guy. He is way out of the picture in Hollyweird these days, and seems far more wrapped up in UFO's.
And that's basically my ultimate point re: Jerry. If Sliders is ever going to return, in any form, it needs a champion. Someone who will go into the important offices with a pitch and make things happen. That's how this stuff works.
You're right: Torme isn't that guy anymore. If he was, it would've been done already. And my point has been, Jerry might not be that guy, but he's the best chance the show has as far as we know. He's the only one talking about it.
Example: Battlestar Galactica. It's another small sci-fi show with a cult following. Its star, Richard Hatch, spent years and years and years trying to get a continuation produced. Made comics, made novels, made a teaser trailer for a continuation called "The Second Coming". He got really close a few times. And while he never got his version on screen, he knocked down enough doors that Universal decided to make the reboot. And it got a new champion in Ronald D. Moore.
So if Jerry goes around Hollywood and shops Sliders enough, anything can happen. But that's where it has to start. Petitions might work, but the one I found has 70 signatures. I signed it, but 70 isn't going to get anything moving. Kickstarter could work, but you have to have people attached for people to be willing to pay money for it. For these things, you still need a champion.
Now it's true that Jerry might not be the best champion for Sliders. If a Carlton Cuse or a JJ Abrams or Vince Gilligan or Chris Carter or Shawn Ryan or any number of TV producers wanted to get a Sliders reboot off the ground, they probably could. But usually, those things take something smaller to get them off the ground. Richard Hatch had to pitch BSG so many times before Moore found out they were doing it and thought, "Yeah, I could do something cool there."
And maybe Jerry has to go into a room and say "here's my idea. I'm Arturo with a bunch of great young actors." And he has this glossy cool-looking promo art, but the Universal exec brushes him off. But then the next meeting is Cuse for Colony Season 2, and he sees the promo art sticking out of a folder on the exec's desk. "You're doing SLIDERS? That's awesome, I loved that show!" "Well, not really. But is that something you'd like to work on?" "Absolutely!"
And that's how you get Sliders: TNG.
I really like what Slider_Quinn has been saying. At the end of the day, Sliders needs a a champion - Jerry is the only guy who appears willing to push for it, even if as Ib correctly states, he doesn't have a lot of pull to get a project made in hollywood. But I don't think he wants to step on the creator's toes, so he is sort of taking a backseat to actually getting involved with it as a pitch (except only to fans). What he is willing to do is to nudge fans a little about his interest, and hope they can help nudge other folks, to try to get the ball rolling.
I was the one who reached out to the ComicCon folks about a panel - a Sliders reunion panel as Grizzlor put it. I got in touch, heard back, gave them my pitch and am hoping they follow up with interest. I think it's our best chance at getting the ball rolling, the same way that frankly I am not sure X Files would have ever returned if there wasn't a podcast about it from a semi-famous actor and Gillian didn't go on nerdist. These things are incredibly stupid in terms of how they work but it basically took that for a renuion to happen.
I hope if you got all 3 or 4 or even 5 or 6 principles in the same place, same room for the first time, they could talk again, and not only that, feel the love from fans, making them use that positivity energy to give somethign of an effort. I honestly believe Tracy may have put out some feelers originally to industry peers and didn't get a great response about the prospects. That said, we are not trying to make 1 + 2 = 4 here. Getting Sliders back is not that impossible. It is just very hard. And that's why you need someone pitching hard, like the Battle Star Galectica guy. Unfortunately, there's no 30-something year old exec who grew up in sliders now in hollywood willing to stick there neck out for this franchise. We have Jerry, Tracy, us, and maybe if we are lucky a fan or not a fan in Kelsey Grammer, and who even knows what he thinks if he liked it originally.
It is possible for something to happen, however, with the right energy behind the effort from these principals, us doing what we can do, and creativity. Cleverness and creativity is what will allow the pitch and market strategy to be framed in a manner in which executives will be convinced "you;re right" and take some professional risk here.
Hopefully, they would be open to the possibility of younger cast members as well, if that's what it took. I'd say if they get a pilot that reunites the characters, makes the continuity of season 3 and beyond not affect our sliders, and then introduces a new generation of sliders, great.
