In the realm of retro science fiction cinema, "Forbidden Planet" is unanimously considered a Hollywood classic and ranks at the top of almost any serious list of seminal outer space films. This 1956 retelling of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" proudly stands amid the company of other vintage works like "The Thing From Another World," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," "The War of the Worlds," and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as prime examples of that long-past Golden Age.
Of that celebrated group of 1950s sci-fi movies, "Forbidden Planet" also remains the only one that has mercifully not received a Tinseltown reboot, but that's all about to change with recent news of a Warner Bros. "revisionist" remake in the works from Eisner Award-winning comic book creator and screenwriter Brian K. Vaughan ("Y: The Last Man," "Saga") and seasoned producer Emma Watts.
