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On 2026-05-02, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:

Why is it that American cinematographers tend to choose
British actors as their favourite villains?

I'm skeptical that this is even true. Still, a possible pathway
would go like this: British=foreigner, so gets cast in roles of foreigners--French, German, Russian, heck, even British--who are
frequently villains. So, having shown that they can play a convincing
villain, they are cast again as such.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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On 2026-05-03, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2026-05-03, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

_Blake's 7_ (1978-1981) however remains surprisingly watchable.

There's a reboot in the works.

The vast majority of such projects never come to fruition.

Now if only this had plagued the first ever TV sequel to Star Wars...

(I was going to change the Subject:, but on second thought the existing
one is fitting for this too.)

https://cultbox.co.uk/news/blakes-7-reboot-is-actually-happening-heres-what-we-know

And despite the headline, there is not indication that this is actually happening. Rule of thumb: Unless shooting has started--which means
somebody is spending real money on actors, crew, sets, etc--it won't
happen. Heck, the US networks used to have a pilot season where
people spent actual money shooting pilot episodes, only for most
of those series projects to be canned. The attrition from "in the
works" to "on the screen" is close to 100%.

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Nuno Silva
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