Where next for Red Dwarf?

[MrTalman]

Long-time lurker but curious as to everyone’s thoughts as to where the ship flies post-Titan. 
FWIW I would love a special or two to round things off, but appreciate that’s feeling less probable in the current UK TV landscape, especially when it comes to coughing up money for sci-fi and the ideas Doug was having (I’m still morbidly curious at what u&Dave-level de-aging would have looked like considering convincing tech for that seems to have eluded Hollywood most of the time). 

I had mixed feelings on Titan as a book overall, but the one thing it did really sell me on is that there are fresh approaches to Red Dwarf and maybe a continuation of the traditional series isn’t the only way forward, leaving me strangely optimistic about the prospect that RD as an idea is going to stick around. The stuff that REALLY works in the book are all the new ideas and subversions of the traditional Dwarf formula. 

Would you like to see Andrew Marshall carry on the adventure post-Titan? Do you reckon Doug’s going to deliver his own book continuation? Stage show? Long awaited TikTok revival of the mobisodes…?

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[Rushy]

Kryten was already falling apart in the Promised Land. Maybe the new special would start out with him being forced to wear Spare Head Three until they find one that looks curiously like a human replica of Robert Llewelyn’s head. 

[Warbodog]

Then every website would use that special’s cast shot to represent Red Dwarf forever and we’d petition them to bring back the series X one.

[Dave]

[Unrumble]

*wrong thread 

[tombow]

If Doug needs a budget de-aging team the one who did Sylvester Stallone in Samaritan are probably available

Sylvester Stallone 2022 superhero samaritan – YouTube

[Moonlight]

I pitched the question of ditching or re-designing Kryten’s mask to Wafflemen and Danny (I think) went on about doing it with CGI but what I really wanted to hear discussed was whether people would be OK with what Dave posted.

[Podey]

I think I’d be more Ok with it if he wasn’t wearing glasses.

[Dave]

I think I’d be more Ok with it if he wasn’t wearing glasses.

[Nick R]

[Technopeasant]

I think I’d be more Ok with it if he wasn’t wearing glasses.

So you still want him to die, just from walking into something rather than heatstroke?

[Podey]

[Ben Saunders]

That shot of the spare heads has to be one of the most technically brilliant in Dwarf, right? It honestly never even registered in my brain as an effects shot, in the way that other split-screen stuff automatically does, despite the fact that it obviously has to be. But you have three Robert Llewellyns, so three vertical splits, PLUS the horizontal split below them. It must have been a ballache.

[Dave]

Weirdly having the blue folder on the end of the shelf really helps to sell the illusion of it being one continuous shelf rather than the same section three times.

It is ingenious. 

[Warbodog]

I figured it was just someone else’s hand rather than needing to be a horizontal split, but I didn’t factor it in when making compilations of all the Krytens.

But I never really appreciated the joke before of how unprestigiously they’re being stored in a random cupboard with other shit.

[Podey]

Where did you think Bobby’s body was if there wasn’t a horizontal split? 

[Warbodog]

They detached his head for that scene.

[si]

Where did you think Bobby’s body was if there wasn’t a horizontal split? 

Under his head, I imagine.

[Technopeasant]

I know, I was honestly shocked too.

[Technopeasant]

Where did you think Bobby’s body was if there wasn’t a horizontal split?

[Author]

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