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"I’m usually not one to advocate for more remakes, but when it comes to the
gloriously strange and prophetic
Max Headroom I’ll make an exception. If
conducted in the right spirit, a remake of this 80s cyberpunk series – nay, pop
culture phenomenon – would feel less like the return of a famous IP than the
completion of a prophecy: a step forward into a Max Headroomian world, famously
billed as taking place “20 minutes into the future”.
Premiering his career in 1985, Headroom was a real – but fake – TV host (still
with me?) who was advertised as “the first computer-generated TV presenter”.
Which he wasn’t: technology in the 80s was incapable of producing an actual CGI
character, so actor Matt Frewer was hired to play the part, and through a
combination of prosthetics and filming techniques was made to look like a
glitching and stuttering computer-generated creation.
Headroom made his debut in a UK-produced TV origins movie which gave audiences
his backstory. Then, after three seasons hosting a talk show and music video
program – conducting bizarre interviews with celebrities such as Sting and
Michael Caine – an American narrative series was commissioned that remade the
UK movie and extended the narrative, retaining Frewer and running for two
seasons."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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