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The 1984 cult classic
Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ended with a promise: “Buckaroo Banzai will return in
Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.” But the first film was a box office flop, and despite its cult status, that sequel never materialized. Until now. (Sort of.)
Sadly, Buckaroo and the Hong Kong Cavaliers are not heading back to the big screen any time soon. But their adventures will finally be continued in a new novel written by original screenwriter
Earl Mac Rauch. Get the details below.
For those who may not be familiar,
Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is one of the most delightfully bonkers movies to come out of the entire 1980s, a decade that produced some pretty damn bonkers movies. But this one really earns its reputation: it’s a B-movie mashup about a physicist/neurosurgeon/samurai/test pilot/rock star and his rock band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, who have to take down a group of aliens from the Planet 10. And if you think that’s wild, that’s barely scratching the surface. Here’s the trailer:
Hong-kongPenny-priddyEarl-mac-rauchJohn-emdallBuckaroo-banzai-against-the-world-crime-leagueWorld-crime-leagueBuckaroo-banzaiBuckaroo-banzai-acrossBuckaroo-banzai-againstHong-kong-cavaliersEarl-macReno-kid“As the world grapples with democracy and government in our divided age of surveillance, ‘fake news’ and truth decay, the urgency of Orwell’s masterpiece is undeniable," the producer said. "The small screen feels like a natural home for his portrait of a society in which people trust their screens more than the world outside their windows.”
1984 follows Winston Smith, a low-level worker in a grim imagined future surveillance state where propaganda rules and free thought is increasingly restrained. Though he's a cog in the machine of this dark state-controlled world, he also dreams of escape from it and rebellion against it, something helped along by his budding forbidden romance with a coworker. The novel is one of the most influential and acclaimed sci-fi works of all time, and remains a staple of the dystopian genre. Icke and Macmillan's stage show has enjoyed successful runs on Broadway and in London's West End, where it gained particularly notoriety for the brutality of its torture scenes, which caused audience members to faint and leave the theater entirely. It'll be interesting to see where this version of the story takes the brutality, and where it ultimately falls in the TV landscape.
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