Reboot: The Guardian Code {Netflix Series} (Mar. 30, 2018)

[Kaslo]

[6souls]

Details:

Not the ReBoot we all know and grew up with, but it's something none the less for a new growing audience, so let's hope it's not crap for their sake.

Corus Entertainment has given the greenlight to Mainframe Entertainment—the television division of the multifaceted Vancouver-based animation studio Rainmaker Entertainment (TSX VENTURE:RNK)—to produce 26 half-hour episodes of a reimagined version of the classic and first-of-its-kind CG-animated television series ReBoot. Reboot: The Guardian Code, a hybrid live-action/CG-animated series to be distributed globally by TWC/Dimension Television (excluding Canada)commences production on the heels of theseries’ 20th anniversary featuring cutting-edge technology that will reboot the ReBoot universe to create a groundbreaking multi-platform experience.

http://www.corusent.com/home/Corpora...t.aspx?Id=3007
http://www.rainmaker.com/?/site/TVseries/InDevelopment.

Here's a bit of the plot:

Over 20 years after ReBoot first booted up, ReBoot: the Guardian Code transforms four teens (Austin, Parker, Grey and Tamra) into new Guardians whose mission is to save the world “with the help of VERA, the last surviving cyberbeing from the original Guardian Program.”. They take on a nefarious hacker known as the Sourcerer, as well as an upgraded Megabyte, who try to unleash viruses that remotely open a dam to flood cities or destroy nuclear power plants.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/corus-...185446700.html

So there's the live action element: Teens from the real world get transplanted into the computer and become Guardians. Also, I have been reading from various other sites that Bob makes an appearance in the pilot along with Enzo and Dot throughout the series.

[Insanecyclone]

fucking wot

[Xno Kappa]

Vera has a fat ass.

[Jaybar]

Uhh wut. No thanks. Never mind Netflix, I take back that sci-fi thing I said.

[Serra]

Nope.

[Corrderio]

Welp there goes my interest...

[Scythiroth]

This looks more like a Power Rangers show. Did they even watch the original before making this? lol

[Xno Kappa]

This looks more like a Power Rangers show. Did they even watch the original before making this? lol

Exactly what I thought initially.

[Alistaire]

Exactly what I thought initially.

I imagine that's the case with everyone. In order to not have thought that, you would've needed to be someone who's never seen any Power Rangers.

[Deftscythe]

Called Reboot, is actually VR Troopers.

[Corrderio]

This looks more like a Power Rangers show. Did they even watch the original before making this? lol

No, but they watched VR Troopers!

[Dantrag]

Holy fuck that looks like shit.

[Rhyis.]

Ain't nothing Reboot about this shit at all. Da fuq

To improve the quality of this thread, here is a video of Megabyte shredding face.

[Outlaw]

Hollywood just needs to stop trying to cash in on nostalgia already.

[Vaspinne]

Ain't nothing Reboot about this shit at all. Da fuq

To improve the quality of this thread, here is a video of Megabyte shredding face.

Okay real talk, Megabyte fucking demolishes Bob on the guitar, it's no contest.

[Fhloston]

Lol Bob got dunked on.

[Lucavi]

Megabyte was such an affably evil villain. Yeah, he'd obliterate you and your family, but goddammit, he just had such CHARM while doing it!

No sense in being barbaric about it, you know?

[6souls]

Press Release, Will Air in Canada in June on YTV

Toronto, CANADA – Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana is excited to announce that the hybrid live-action/CG animated hybrid ReBoot: The Guardian Code will premiere as a Netflix original series worldwide excluding Canada on March 30 and exclusively on YTV in Canada in June. Created by Michael Hefferon, the reimagined version of the 1994 animated classic ReBoot is the first television series to feature awe-inspiring animation built in the Unreal game engine with 4K resolution. The engaging series is distributed by Nelvana and produced by Mainframe Studios, a division of WOW! Unlimited Media. Nelvana will also represent the series for global licensing and merchandising.

“We’re proud to work with the talented team at Mainframe on the distribution of this cutting-edge new series,” said Pam Westman, Head, Nelvana Enterprises. “The contemporary storylines and state-of-the-art technologies of Reboot: The Guardian Code will create an awe-inspiring experience for a new generation of viewers all over the world.”

“The innovative approach used in creating ReBoot: The Guardian Code utilizing the Unreal game engine delivers a truly unique and engaging 360-degree experience for kids,” said creator Michael Hefferon. “We are delighted to work with Nelvana to bring the show to audiences everywhere”.

Netflix’s ReBoot: The Guardian Code is a thrilling hybrid live-action/CG-animated original series following the journey of four teenagers, Austin, Parker, Tamra, and Trey. On their first day at Alan Turning High, these unsuspecting teens discover they’ve been preselected to become the Next-Generation Guardians of Cyberspace with a mission to save the world – by defending it in cyberspace. With the help of VERA, ReBoot’s heroes digitize into cyberspace where they use their code-based powers to combat viruses unleashed by a merciless hacker. Known only as ‘Sourcerer’, this devious hacker seeks to rule the world by controlling cyberspace, and it’s up to the Guardians to stop him.

ReBoot: The Guardian Code was inspired by the original ReBoot series that premiered on Corus’ kids channel YTV in 1994 and aired until 2001.

About Nelvana
Nelvana is Canada’s premier animation company and a world-leading producer and distributor of children’s content. Nelvana has delighted audiences around the globe for more than 40 years with a vast library of more than 4,000 episodes from original, award-winning series like Babar and Franklin. Nelvana’s content is distributed in more than 160 countries worldwide and broadcast across Corus Entertainment’s suite of leading kids networks. Nelvana Enterprises, the global licensing and merchandising arm of Nelvana, manages the organization’s portfolio of in-house and third-party brands with offices in Toronto and Paris. Nelvana Studio, with offices in Toronto and Montreal, employs more than 300 Canadian artists working with local and international producers to create premium children’s content for a global stage. For more information, visit www.nelvana.com.

Follow Nelvana Enterprises on Twitter @NelvanaEnt

About Mainframe Studios
Mainframe Studios produced the first ever CG animated series ReBoot in 1994. The studio, along with the company’s feature division, Rainmaker Studios, has produced over 700 half hours of television and 60 + movies, working with global partners in helping to realize some of the biggest branded entertainment. Working with top global talent, the studio utilizes the latest technology in driving innovation to the creative content it produces for key broadcasters, home entertainment and interactive companies from around the world. Based in Vancouver, Mainframe Studios is a division of WOW! Unlimited Media, a publicly traded entertainment company with office in Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles. Visit Mainframe at www.mainframe.ca

For media inquiries, please contact:

Media Contact: ChizComm Ltd. | www.chizcomm.com on behalf of Nelvana.
Kelly French | 416.551.0822 x 346 | [email protected]

Laura Berkenblit, Senior Publicist, Nelvana
416.860.4225; [email protected]

Michelle McTeague, Publicity Manager, Nelvana
416.966.7724; [email protected]

Media Contact for Mainframe Studios: The Kirk Group
Colleen Kirk / 310.251.0030 / [email protected]

Tidbits from an interview with the new show's creator;

The show we eventually created is certainly inspired by the original ReBoot, but I don’t think of it as a ReBoot reboot. Rather, we tried to imagine that ReBoot had never been made, and we were making it for the first time for today’s audience.

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YTV also wanted a show with co-viewing appeal, so we wanted to reach kids but also hook parents and older siblings. So we went with a live action–animation hybrid, to expand our audience range by making characters and topics more relatable, because the characters are real kids dealing with the fallout of the cyberverse.

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In fact, a lot of industry people told me, “Don’t make ReBoot the first project you develop.” But whenever someone tells me not to do something… well, let’s just say I love a challenge.

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For me, what is important is kid empowerment. I have a son. My son wants to be Austin (one of the four teens in the new series). He wants to be a Guardian. That’s what I want to do with it. I want to basically inspire kids, and adults. [This is] what the live-action element allowed us to do. We couldn’t do that if [the action] all stayed within a device.

https://www.rebootrevival.com/?p=2513

[Silenka]

The show we eventually created is certainly inspired by the original ReBoot, but I don’t think of it as a ReBoot reboot. Rather, we tried to imagine that ReBoot had never been made, and we were making it for the first time for today’s audience.

Because that's not going to piss anyone off...