?ReBoot? to get a Reboot
ReBoot the popular early cg animated television series created by MainFrame Entertainment, is set to be reworked as a series of films by Rainmaker Animation. Rainmaker Animation purchased and renamed MainFrame entertainment in 2006.
Television hounds like myself may remember ReBoot as the computer animated story of a society inside of a computer program, with Bob, the blue guardian of the mainframe, protecting the society from viruses, glitches, and computer games.
The series is set to be revived as a three movie trilogy, and is employing a new strategy in writing that involves the audience, but may nullify the writer as an integral part of the process.
Hollywoodreporter.com explains:
Essentially, five undiscovered writers identified by Rainmaker were selected to work with the animation studio's production teams to prepare a pitch for the new ReBoot story line. These will be posted on the Zeros 2 Heroes site Thursday, the opening day of San Diego Comic-Con International. Those who visit the site will be able to work with each production team to help refine the ideas for ReBoot and later vote and select a favorite pitch. The brainstorming environment is what the site calls "Think Ups."
The Zeros 2 Heroes online viewer will feature Web 2.0 applications. The audience will be able to interact with the content on a variety of levels, including tagging, rating, reviewing, blogging and chatting. They also will be able to submit their own fan art.
A Web-based comic, based on the selected story, will be published this year. Production on the features will commence at that time.
