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Release Date:
11 May 2008 (UK) moreTagline:
It's A Bad Day To Be Human.Plot:
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped. full summaryAwards:
Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys. Another 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(17 articles)
TV Review: Hugh Laurie’s House Shatters M.O. in Sly Season-Six Premiere of ‘House M.D.’ (From HollywoodChicago.com. 20 September 2009, 9:26 PM, PDT)
TV Nominees of 2009 Directors Guild Awards
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Why This Remake? more (135 total)US TV Schedule:
| Sat. Nov. 21 | 1:00 PM | AETV |
Cast
(Series Cast overview, first billed only)| Benjamin Bratt | ... | Dr. Jeremy Stone | |
| Eric McCormack | ... | Jack Nash | |
| Christa Miller | ... | Dr. Angela Noyce | |
| Daniel Dae Kim | ... | Dr. Tsi Chou | |
| Viola Davis | ... | Dr. Charlene Barton | |
| Justin Louis | ... | Colonel James C. Ferrus | |
| Barry Flatman | ... | Charles 'Chuck' Beeter | |
| Ted Whittall | ... | President William J. Scott | |
| Ted Atherton | ... | Edward 'Ed' Dewitt | |
| Tom McBeath | ... | Kyle Tobler | |
| Rick Schroder | ... | Major Bill Keane MD (as Ricky Schroder) | |
| Andre Braugher | ... | General George W. Mancheck | |
| Jesse Moss | ... | Jeff Megan | |
| Magda Apanowicz | ... | Suzie Travis | |
| Kurt Max Runte | ... | Sherriff Martin Willis |
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174 min | Norway:170 min (2 parts) | USA:180 minCountry:
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1.78 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalCertification:
Singapore:M18 | Australia:M | Norway:15 (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 | Netherlands:12 (TV version) | Finland:K-18 (self applied)Fun Stuff
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In the source novel by Michael Crichton, the main scientists were mainly white (presumably) heterosexual men, but Robert Schenkkan, who wrote the teleplay for this remake made the decision to change the characters' ethnicities, sexualities, and genders because, he said in a May 2008 interview with Brent Hartinger on afterelton.com, "If you're going to update the story, which is our mandate, you have an obligation to reflect the world as it is." Schenkkan further said that he decided to include the brief reference to Keene (Rick Schroder) being gay because of a principle invented by Crichton in the original novel, the "Odd Man Hypothesis," which states that in a time of crisis, an unmarried, unattached person [Crichton specified a man] with no family to distract him would have the best chance of making rational, unbiased, unemotional decisions. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: At one point, the shadow of the passing helicopter is visible. Based on the shadow's length, the helicopter would be around twenty feet in length, while the actual UH-1 is just over 40'. moreFAQ
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When the capsule of the Scoop Mission returns to Earth and lands in the small town of Piedmont, Utah, it brings a mutant living being and all the population, except a crying baby and an old man with ulcer, dies with clotted blood. A team of five scientists - the leader Dr. Jeremy Stone (Benjamin Bratt), Dr. Angela Noyce (Christa Miller), Dr. Tsi Chou (Daniel Dae Kim), Dr. Charlene Barton (Viola Davis) and Major Bill Keane MD (Ricky Schroder) - are summoned and gathered together in the top secret Wildfire facility. Fighting against time, they try to understand the reason why the old man and the baby survived and research an antidote to Andromeda, the ultimate biological weapon.
I wrote the above summary with the exceptions of the names of Dr. Stone's scientist's team in my review of the original sci-fi classic of 1971. The great pacifist story is basically the same, only longer due to updates in special effects and useless subplots with government conspiracies. I usually hate remakes, but sometimes I find reasonable surprises; but I do not know the objective of this tiresome and totally unnecessary remake. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "O Enigma de Andrômeda" ("The Enigma of Andromeda")