The Last Train: 5 Reasons It Should Be Remade

5. Modern Audiences The Last Train is a tale of survival, a group facing against the world that has been seemingly irreversibly whilst the characters have been frozen in time. They are thus set against a world that is scarce of human life and those that remain pose a daunting threat to the survivors. The Last Train is an example of post-apocalyptic fiction, similar to other British series such as Survivors (1975), Threads (1984) and John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (known as No Blade of Glass in America). Currently post-apocalyptic fiction is integrated in all aspects of entertainment; The Walking Dead, NBC's Revolution, Tom Hanks' 2011 web series Electric City, Marly Youmans' epic poem Thaliad and video games like the Fallout series and Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us. Each of these formats has received praise and along with that significant audience scope; there is a solid fanbase and market for a remake of The Last Train, with the only recent British programme that is similar being the remake of Survivors in 2008. An updated version would suit the young demographic of viewership, addressing the submerged concern of the audience with global disaster, having shifted away from the fear in the late 90's of global pandemics, such as SARS, to the current concern of the future consumption and oil crisis' and even the reemerging idea of nuclear war in contention with the likes of North Korea and Iran.