Not particularly interested in a sequel. It's so cliche and it's ideas are kind of just played out by the advent of hack things like Ready Player One so... I just don't really feel like there's much value or anything worthy of really returning to?
Like, sure, it has a place in film history and 80s culture, but everything we've had has expanded upon everything on offer. CGI? we've surpassed that by far to the point that our cell phones could render the film without expending battery. Story? It's a generic nerd power fantasy? World building and characters? Kind of generic and forgettable because it's an excuse plot. And it's not like it's a film that's particularly well remembered outside of it's CGI contribution anyway, unlike other films of the era like Mad Max.
I'm not saying that a sequel could be good, but they'd either really have to capitalize on the genre and story evolutions in the last 30 years or go in with some commentary and self-awareness of the original and how it would be seen today. It'd really have to build something of it's own more than building on what little the original would be giving them.
I'm skeptical about a sequel, myself, but for another reason: no Robert Preston (Centauri).
I won't say he made the movie, but his contribution to it certainly wasn't minor.
All your safe space are belong to TrumpI could see a sequel working. If only because you could have it built around the recruitment process thing backfiring in a few different ways. Like, what if the person is really good at games, but can't handle real life violence at all? How do you deal with that? What if they just treat the real fight like a game and are just unnecessarily brutal?
There's also the angle of rebuilding the Corps, since literally everyone else but Alex and Grig are dead and their facility and infrastructure were just gone. That combined with how the League seems rather averse to combat (the Gunstars are powerful, but it's seriously odd that the League appears to have absolutely nothing else to defend themselves with beyond the shield) could create some interesting scenarios.

Thirty years ago, a film called The Last Starfighter was released. It was primarily known as a showcase for 3D technology at the time (one of the first films to do so), and a plot that would eventually become something of a cliche, a guy with no skills other then being really good at video games gets to use those game skills to save the world. Sadly the actual game never got made for arcades although plenty of enthusiastic programmers have tried to make replicas of the experience.
Less known is all the legal wrangling behind the rights. Universal, Warner Bros, and the original screenwriter Johnathan Beutel all claimed ownership (which is why Seth Rogen abandoned his initial plan to make a sequel in favor of a homage in Future Man.)
However, it looks like Beutel himself is finally making a sequel with Gary Whitta, co-writer of
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and the latter shared some concept art.
So, anyone have any memories of the original? Do you want to see a sequel?
Edited by Beatman1 on Jul 16th 2019 at 12:08:02 PM