{"id":45633,"date":"2014-10-02T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/whats-old-and-not-so-old-is-new-again.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:25:32","slug":"whats-old-and-not-so-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/whats-old-and-not-so-old-is-new-again.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s old (and not so old) is new again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really? Seven years on, and it&#39;s time for a reboot?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this tale has had previous cinematic incarnations (1964&#39;s very scary <i>The Last Man on Earth,<\/i> and 1971&#39;s Hestonriffic <i>Omega Man),<\/i> so yet another remake of Richard Matheson&#39;s tale isn&#39;t all that surprising. Just &#8230; so soon?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+GeekTyrant<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>I AM LEGEND Is Getting Rebooted<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/i-am-legend-is-getting-rebooted\">http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/i-am-legend-is-getting-rebooted<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101577379472917990111\/albums\/6065680811950864369\/6065680820070229810'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-2QMoHumm_Dc\/VC2gkYkvpzI\/AAAAAAADc1Q\/l0vhe3pVBWU\/i-am-legend-is-getting-rebooted-social.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Likk7ZrJoFV'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? Seven years on, and it&#39;s time for a reboot? Of course, this tale has had previous cinematic incarnations (1964&#39;s very scary The Last Man on Earth, and 1971&#39;s Hestonriffic Omega Man), so yet another remake of Richard Matheson&#39;s tale isn&#39;t all that surprising. Just &#8230; so soon? Originally shared by +GeekTyrant: I AM LEGEND &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/whats-old-and-not-so-old-is-new-again.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#039;s old (and not so old) is new again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/i-am-legend-is-getting-rebooted-social.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39954,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/movie-review-sinbad-legend-of-the-seven-seas-2003.html","url_meta":{"origin":45633,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas&quot; (2003)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Dec-13 10:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I really love this film -- just triffic fun. 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