The 1956 version could also use a sequel, it ends with the main character arrested and thrown into a loony bin and ranting about alien pods and stuff, and the doctors are humoring him as you do with crazy people, listening to his story but not because they believe it but to try to figure out what is wrong with the nut job's psychology. Then they hear on the radio that a truck carrying plant pods that no botanist has ever known about that fit exactly to a tee what he was describing and putting 2 and 2 together they immediately realize he is not crazy and in a frantic tone of voice the head shrink at the loony bin orders his staff to notify every police and military organization they can and declare a state of national emergency.
Anyway, a sequel where the story is the description of the human race trying to weed out the pod people, trying to figure out if there are pod people in their midst, setting up "sleeping centers" special places where there are no pods and it is safe to sleep etc. The main character and only survivor from the first movie could be a character as well, doing what he can to help the human race destroy all of the pods.
Hell even the 1993 version could have a sequel.
There can be no "crossovers" though, all the versions are remakes not sequels and do not take place in the same fictional universe. People have tried to say here that the 1978 one was a sequel but Kevin McCarthy was NOT portraying the same character it was the same actor in a similar situation, obviously someone who had witnessed a pod developing but not literally the same character.
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enigmawriter-1
9 years ago
You're right, I think the original can get a sequel off as well. I like your ideas. Sleep Camps, that is actually very cool. I don't like crossovers, too, unless they revolve around the same universe, like with the writings of Stephen King.
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creatorof2002
9 years ago
My "sleeping center" is the opposite of the 1993 version where all the victims were taken to the hospital to be body snatched at once. It would not be a "camp" but a very secure building run by people who have been tested and have to be re tested every day to make sure they are not pod people (some kind of test would be developed) and the entire building is sealed so that nobody would be in danger sleeping in it. People might lose some freedom as taking naps would be risky.
Also, the governments would have to decide what to do with the pod people they had captured, kill them, study them, torture them for information (if thats possible since they are emotionless). You would have massive paranoia where people keep (often wrongly) suspecting others of being pods. For example some people are very dull and have borish personalities and they could be mistaken for emotionless pod people.
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enigmawriter-1
9 years ago
Those are some great ideas. I forgot what that emotionless medical condition is called, but basically, some people cannot understand emotion or give it. I don't think it's Asperger Syndrome. I like your ideas.
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creatorof2002
9 years ago
It would also be interesting to learn the evolutionary origins of the pods. That creepy speech by Leonard Nimoy in the 1978 version mentioned how they came from a dying world and drift through space and how they survive.
It would be interesting to go into more detail about how such a life form could evolve. Though in real life it would never work because they would have to drift for light YEARS unless they were from our own solar system and panspermia is scientifically understood to be within a solar system like from Mars to Earth.
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enigmawriter-1
9 years ago
It would be very cool to think that the human population right now were conceived by similar situations millions of years ago. Through the years, we've evolved. That could be very interesting as well.
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