A&E's "Bates Motel" Discussion (2013-2017)

[HDMe]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Maybe Fox can make it a movie and call it Psycho Origins: Norman Bates.

There already was a movie prequel... or maybe it was a made for TV prequel?

Psycho IV: The Beginning... it was Norman Bates recounting his childhood to a psychiatrist or something I think.

[beckmen]

Yeah, it was a TV movie. IIRC (it's been probably 15 years, and I was a teenager) it did a pretty good job setting up why Norman was so nuts.

Both this and the Hannibal show seem like terrible ideas. They are finite concepts that should only take a few hours to tell the story. Although you never know, I balked at the idea of a Terminator show but they managed to create their own world of intrigue instead of "Terminator of the week" type stuff...

[Lemmy Lugosi]

Originally Posted by beckmen

Yeah, it was a TV movie. IIRC (it's been probably 15 years, and I was a teenager) it did a pretty good job setting up why Norman was so nuts.

Nope, it was an R-rated feature film.

[Samus Aran]

Psycho IV was a made-for-TV Showtime movie.