To think it's time for a Threads remake.

Me too (not the 17 bit😁) and remember going to work next day and almost being amazed that life was normal. But I think it was of it’s time, how could you do it now without it being provocative? It was pre glasnost, there was a palpable threat of nuclear war.The film was valuable for the anti nuclear movement. Where would the bombs come from? Russia, the Middle East, the USA?

"Industry? What industry, we got no Industry in Sheffield" is a line that lives rent free in my head 😂

I hope they are doing it as a series. They could have spin-offs. The original only tells Sheffield's side of the story, so just as CSI had CSI Miami, you could have regionalised shows. S4C could have Threads: Bangor entirely in Welsh, BBC Scotland could have Threads: Paisley where the locals welcome the bomb for it's urban regeneration, Threads: Fife where generations later people are wholly unaffected by radiation and still have their webbed feet.

You could market a line of Action Figures depicting much loved characters from the shows and their hideously mutated offspring, Number 33 Smith Street where the gable-end has collapsed due to the pressure wave and the roof is ablaze. Police and armed forces squads in NBC gear enforcing Martial Law, hero NHS doctors amputating limbs without anaesthesia and so on. It could make a fortune.

Tbf I only like up to where the bombs drop, the rest is ridiculous.

It is being remade. By the people who did adolescence

The cat on fire had me in tears.

Ever since it got tipped on here (another thread?) I've been listening to the Atomic Hobo podcast all about nuclear apocalypse and stuff and I find it weirdly comforting

https://shows.acast.com/atomichobo/episodes

I watched it last year when the BBC released it again as a 40 year anniversary thing. I wish I had never watched it, I got so stressed by the sheer horror of it. I have made a small collection of food, water, batteries and a battery powered radio.
What worries me most is the thought that my child could survive and I may not. My child is 9 and we have such a strong bond. As much as dying terrifies me and Threads has made me prefer to be vaporised than try and live after, I am so scared that my child could be left to fend for themselves.

I.D? Great film

As a child of the 80's the threat of nuclear war felt very real. School projects had us watching When the Wind Blows and then creating a booklet to be distributed to households on what action to take in the event of a nuclear attack. It was utterly terrifying. I just watched the Threads bomb scene on You Tube and cried.

In better news I'd completely forgotten about Rheese (Rhys/Reece?) Dinsdale - he was in loads of good stuff in the 80's.

Netflix are literally doing it right now.

Same people who made Adolescents.

Saw the BBC article about the re-make.

I'm intrigued to know if it's going to have a contemporary theme, as life has changed exponentially since the original.

My Dad yesterday at 85 and a nuclear test veteran said sagely the only sane reaction to nuclear war is to hope you're in the vaporisation zone and to kiss your ass goodbye.

I'm trying not to think about it too deeply. But I have started buying extra cat food. For my cats, obviously.

Oh my days. What a time to be alive.

Just watched the bomb scene.

Is it true the iron explodes ?

Just goes to show there and negatives and positives to everything.

I’d quite like to see what they’d do with a remake 🤔

I saw that they'll absolutely ruin it

The most poignant thing rewatching it today is the build up to the nuclear exchange.

The snippets of news stories about Russia and the Middle East in the background on the TVs in many scene are so similar to current day news (albeit reversed in some ways) that it makes it even more realistic than it was 40 years ago for me.

People going about their lives, occasionally mentioning the news about a conflict going on thousands of miles away, a few escalations and then the unthinkable happens.

It's a great film but always shocking to watch.

The trend since the end of the Cold War has been to have fewer, smaller, but better targeted, nuclear warheads. Not that it would make much difference to the consequences of a full nuclear exchange.

It was interesting to hear Zelenskyy talking about the consequences for Ukraine of giving up their nuclear weapons in the 90s. They're the only country to have done so, and it hasn't been a huge success.

We recorded it and watched it again last night. So grim, also watched the 15 minute Mick Jackson documentary, on his making of it.
I wonder if it's been exported or shown abroad, ever?
Bleakly, it reminded me of the devastation and suffering in Gaza without the radiation sickness.

I was mid-teens when it was first aired, and it absolutely traumatised me. I still remember the horror of wetting the bed and crawling in with my parents sobbing that night…I was a teenager ffs!

Couldn’t bring myself to watch it when it was shown the other day, just that memory is powerful enough to remind me how important peace is.

I've been wanting to watch it for years, as it's a genre I enjoy, but DP and I were really underwhelmed by it. I think its of its time.

It's on iPlayer - it says it will be available for the next 11 months

10.15pm BBC 4 9th Oct.

I watched it in short chunks in my drinking days. Only way to do it, I think!

Thing is, peace doesn't depend on only the West stopping supplying arms to Ukraine and Israel. Russia has said they want to invaded Baltic countries and bomb London, no matter what.

If the West doesn't -try- to stand up to the aggressive leaders in a moderate way, what happens when you get two crazy egotistical tyrants both of whom are intent on war and both of whom would use nuclear weopons rather than lose? North Korea is very close to nuclear bombs, Iran isn't far off, and neither country is stable or sane.

No, it isn’t necessary. Nuclear war with Russia felt (and was) very close in the 1980’s. We watched the film ‘When the Wind Blows’ and read the book ‘Z for Zachariah’ in school. I grew up near a large naval base and we were instructed in school on what to do in the event of a strike (hide under our desk!). We had leaflets put through the door at home on how to survive radioactive fall out. ‘Threads’ was completely traumatising. I froze in terror every time I heard a loud plane back then. Everyone did. It was all completely pointless as living where we did, it would have been all over in an instant for us, anyway… thankfully. Personally, I don’t think there will be a WW3. If it was ever going to happen it would have done so in the 1960’s - 1980’s.