Oh dear god.

Flames because I'd rather set myself on fire than watch Hollywood massacre that excellent drama.

I may not watch much TV or movies but that's a hell of a drop in quality.

This is sounding more and more like one of those Orange adverts you see when you go to the pictures to watch a film. I guess they are going to relay the existence of the plutonium to the waiting world via video calling. It doesn't matter if they're underground, Orange can get a single anywhere!

....... Joanne Whalley, mmmm. Zoë Wanamaker was pretty hot too.

And the music. Eric has never been so sublime. They will probably get some pathetic modern rubbish. (Then again there is the connection with Mel, so maybe not)

There is no chance they can top the original.

How very interesting.

They should also bring in Winstone's mate from Robin Of Sherwood, Jason Connery.

One of the acting greats.

More quality BBC TV ruined for a wider - read American, audience.

Question is will they dare to replace God's (aka Eric Clapton) excellent sound track?

Must resist the inevitable joke about being wooden, etc.

Why do Hollyweird studios think that taking a classic drama and dumbing it down is a great idea? Just shows how bankrupt of ideas their creative departments are, I think that Bobby was frightened of handling plutonium, not the script... Darius Jedburgh for president !!!

This is just what i needed to know. Thanks for ruining my weekend, Reg.

Paris, because she never disappoints.

So, another paranoid, scaremongering, anti-nuke, anti-corproration piece? Yes, the original was a well-made production with excellent acting, but the whole story was so far in the outfield it was comic. The original ending (ditched by the BBC2 crew because it was too far-fetched for even BBC2!) was supposed to be the dying cop is magically transformed into a tree, surrounded by the black flowers that were due to eat humanity (triffids, maybe?)! Given Gibson's contribution I expect another well-made, well-acted and beautifully shot picture with a plotline still full of truck-sized holes. I expect lots of pre-release marketing with references to other such anti-nuke/anti-corporation films such as Silkwood and The China Syndrome.

It's really quite difficult to see where this is going to get funding (a green anti-nucular anti-establishment drama, with Hollywood funding?????), which may in the end be a good thing if it makes people revisit the (unbeatable) original. Amazon don't have the BBC original themselves right now (their marketplace people do), other places do have it, it's also available through Guardian Reader Offers (but not online!) at £10:

http://www.guardianoffers.co.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/GuardianOffers/_MMEdgeOfDarkness/%2D/Edge-of-Darkness-%2D-The-Complete-Series

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/sep/09/leaveourtvmemoriesalone

As long as you want a character exactly like Ray Winstone in your film.

Mel Gibson is just there as a historical consultant I expect.

Oh, no. Not Mel.

Maybe he heard the 'Time of the Preacher' and thinks it's about that jesus myth or something.

One for the dinosaur trainspotters, and a related one for the conspiracy-deniers

q1) where did the Systime offices feature in the original EoD, and what will be used instead?

q2) If you don't know who Systime were, try this Hansard extract:

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1986/feb/25/systime-plc

Having read the extent to which the processes of law and fair trade were distorted by illegal actions by the US company and their local representatives, actions which were ignored by UK law enforcement, for something relatively mundane like a superminicomputer, ask yourself whether the allegedly far-fetched nuclear-industry plotline in EoD is that far-fetched after all?

First they butcher The Wicker Man now they want to do the same to Edge of Darkness ?

Sod off Mel , you're not doing a Scots accent as well are you? Get me coat, I'm not stopping to watch this

P

You're scum. Ray's the daddy.

Evil Graham is exactly correct - Ray Winstone plays a superb Ray Winstone. Sometimes you *do* want a character like that, and when he's being Ray Winstone, Ray Winstone is truly excellent.

Amazingly, I am not kidding too - I rate him highly as a psychopath. Actor! I mean an actor who plays an excellent psycopath.

But Edge of Darkness? The original was so good, it should be left alone.

Thinks: Remember "Wings of Desire"? Remade into "City of Angels" with Nicholas Fucking Cage, and relocated to Los Angeles. Remember "The Italian Job"? Set in Italy, of all places. Remade and reolcated.

Hollywood: Give it a rest, will you? There are some good films out there that do not involve California. You don't need to remake and enshiten them just so you can make cash out of more people.

And what is the Paris Hilton angle, anyway?