To think it's time for a Threads remake.

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For those who don't know. Threads was a tv film about a nuclear bomb hitting the UK. Was made about 40 years ago

I think it's time for a remake. Aibu

Just watched the bomb scene.

Is it true the iron explodes ?

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

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.

Netflix are literally doing it right now.

Same people who made Adolescents.

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.

I.D? Great film

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.

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

The cat on fire had me in tears.

It is being remade. By the people who did adolescence

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

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.

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

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?