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There's a looming crisis for popular culture in 2009, due to the dwindling supplies of 1980s pop culture to rehash, re-release, re-boot, re-imagine and generally relive.
At the current rate of cultural renewal of the films, TV, music and fashion of the once derided decade, the cupboard will be totally bare by 2013. Things are already getting so bad that a live action movie based on the Rubiks Cube and a bold rebooting of the Cosby Show franchise are in development.
This gap could and possibly will be filled by re-imagining the 90s in a similar way, with darker new versions of such classics as Broken Arrow, Timecop and Fire Down Below, or alternatively by remaking the 1980s classics for a second time.
However, scientists and Hollywood bosses think that they may have come up with a better solution - a new time machine that will allow people to travel back to 1985 and insert an extra two years into the mid 80s, to allow for the decade's midway glut of durable hits to be extended out for maximum impact.
For example, the introduction of 1985 part 2 & 1985 part 3 ("Hollywood loves sequels", one film exec quipped) will allow for as many as 30 new cult movie favourites to be released, for later re-evaluation.
The belief is that when 1986 finally arrives, culture will just pick back up where it was, with fondly remembered favourites such as Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee and Aliens. What could go wrong?
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