Not sure why this is showing up here, but happy it is. I remember seeing it at a conference in '79 or '80 and it retaining an oversized footprint in my "mental floorspace" for at least a decade.
You can definitely see how DarkStar led to Alien. And now that I think about it... Maybe the Project Hail Mary film owes something to DarkStar as well.
I'm surprised to not have heard of someone trying to do a reboot, but happy that some things are good enough to be remembered fondly, but bad enough that no sane studio head would greenlight a remake.
A prime example how German dubbing tried to make films more comedic. Like the Bud Spencer/Terence Hill films that were a huge success in Germany because of the slapstick dialogue not present in the Italian original.
In Dark Star they renamed Alien to Hüpfgemüse, which roughly translates to hopping vegetable. It‘s a hoot!
You can definitely see how DarkStar led to Alien. And now that I think about it... Maybe the Project Hail Mary film owes something to DarkStar as well.
I'm surprised to not have heard of someone trying to do a reboot, but happy that some things are good enough to be remembered fondly, but bad enough that no sane studio head would greenlight a remake.
In Dark Star they renamed Alien to Hüpfgemüse, which roughly translates to hopping vegetable. It‘s a hoot!
The German dubbing of Monty Python's Life of Brian is hilarious too. It's as funny as the original and sometimes even better.