In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our revitalized TV and streaming podcast co-hosts Mike DeAngelo and Rodrigo Perez dive into Showtime’s new sci-fi sequel/reboot series, “The Man Who Fell to Earth” from Alex Kurtzman (“Fringe,” “Alias,” “Star Trek: Discovery”) and Jenny Lumet (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “Rachel Getting Married”). 

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Showtime’s reboot/sequel of Nicolas Roeg’s exquisite “The Man Who Fell to Earth” is better appreciated if one divorces it from comparisons to the original. Who could possibly imitate David Bowie’s remarkable alien quality in that film? A singer and entertainer who always seemed slightly out of this world, Bowie played a humanoid alien who crashed to Earth in an effort to bring water back to his home planet, but the plot was secondary to Roeg’s craft and Bowie’s otherness.

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We’ve seen a ton of reboots, remakes, and revivals on TV in recent years. Though “The Man Who Fell to Earth” Showtime series seems like a remake, on paper, the series falls in a unique category of a pseudo-sequel.

With “The Man Who Fell to Earth” premiering at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Showtime has gone ahead and released the first five minutes of the opening episode on YouTube.

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After being the first major film festival hit by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic—the unfortunate timing couldn’t have been worse, March 2020 as the virus first started causing lockdowns around the U.S. — and having to cancel that year, SXSW has been arguably hit the hardest of all the festivals in North America. 2021 SXSW had to go virtual as the virus issues persisted, but this year, the festival is finally triumphantly back in person.

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Sci-fi revivals are all the rage these days, and Showtime is looking to bring back a lesser-known classic that starred the late David Bowie as they’ve made a television series version of “The Man Who Fell To Earth.” The new version follows a new alien character who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

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Believe it or not, it’s been almost six years since David Bowie passed away. Bowie left behind not only an outstanding discography but a slew of exceptional acting performances, with his range on film almost as wide as in his music.

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Now, the role most associated with Bowie, his star turn as humanoid alien Thomas Jerome Newton in Nicolas Roeg‘s 1976 film, “The Man Who Fell To Earth,” gets a 21st-century update.

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At the risk of repeating ourselves, though we do encourage you to read our intro and list of the Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of 2021, there is a lot of television out there and it’s only growing. And growing immensely. With the advent of the streaming age and then the super-charged streaming age of the last two/three years. In trying to catch up to Netflix, Disney+ launched November 2019, AppleTV+ and HBO Max weren’t far behind and now pretty much every company in movies and television has its own streaming network.

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In an impressive showing that signaled they want to be the new Disney+, CBS-Viacom really emboldened the notion that they will be a content force to be reckoned with in the future. During their immense Paramount+ investor day presentation, the streamer announced a massive wave of shows they’re developing based on intellectual property they own and existing feature films. That lineup of series being adapted from famous films includes “Love Story,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Flashdance,” “The Italian Job,” and “The Parallax View,” to name just a few.

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It’s almost a daily occurrence that we see the news that Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV+, Hulu, or Disney+ land some major A-listers for a prestige streaming series. But now we have Paramount+ working its magic, landing Chiwetel Ejiofor to lead the cast of an upcoming series set to remake a classic David Bowie film.

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According to Deadline, Chiwetel Ejiofor is set to star in the lead role in Paramount+’s upcoming series remake of “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” The series is based on the Walter Tevis novel and the cult classic David Bowie film from director Nicolas Roeg.

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In 2019, we’ve seen plenty of remakes, reboots, and revivals. But what CBS All Access and Alex Kurtzman plan to do with the film “The Man Who Fell To Earth” is something a bit different. Sure, the studio and producer are taking the cult classic David Bowie film from 1976 and adapting it as a new TV series, but there’s a twist, as the entire premise is a getting a bit of retooling.

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David Bowie sadly left us this year, but the immensely talented artist worked right up until the end, with his album Blackstar released only two days before he died. But that’s not the only project he had waiting in the wings. Bowie also brought his skill and personality to the movie world, starring in a strong handful of pictures, with Nicolas Roeg‘s “The Man Who Fell To Earth” among his finest efforts.

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The world isn’t quite over the sudden death of David Bowie in January of this year. For those of us still missing The Starman and playing Blackstar on repeat, exciting things are happening.

It was recently announced that Bowie’s 1976 sci-fi masterpiece “The Man Who Fell To Earth” would be getting a theatrical release for the 40th anniversary of the film. As if that weren’t enough, the discovery of previously lost master tapes means the soundtrack can be released for the first time ever.

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So the world just got a bit smaller and less wonderful, and the stars look very different today. David Bowie’s passing is an incalculable loss to the world of music, but it is also a heavy blow to the movie world. His legacy as an actor may be dwarfed by that of his era-defining, decades-spanning music career, but that says less about the former than simply proving the near-planetary size and scale of the latter.

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Watch: 12-Minute Video Essay Explores The Soundtrack Of 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'

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