7) The Last Starfighter
The Movie: Though it isn’t talked about much nowadays, 1984’s The Last Starfighter is notable for being one of the first films to use an extensive amount of CGI (along with 1982’s Tron, of course). Its story shouldn’t be written off, though, as it’s a lot of fun. Teenager Alex Rogen (Lance Guest) is so good at arcade game Starfighter that he is whisked off by aliens to fight in their interstellar war. Unbeknownst to him, the game was really a test to find the one gifted enough to help save their species.
Previously, everyone from Steven Spielberg to Seth Rogen had attempted to make a new movie of the property but they were all unable due to original screenwriter Jonathan R. Betuel holding the rights. Now, he’s finally decided to do something about that as the writer announced back in 2015 that he was penning a TV reboot of the film, to be titled The Starfighter Chronicles.
The TV Show: To this, we say “hooray,” as there is a lot of potential in Starfighter to make a great show. The central concept is practically begging to be updated from an arcade game to a video or even VR game. The only problem with this one is the budget that would be needed to create the outer space battles and whatnot. If they could find a financially savvy way of dealing with that, though, it could be a winner.
