V: The Rebooted Series

It was only a matter of time before another big show from the 80s was rebooted for this, the second coming of the 80s. The news today is that ABC has been working on a remake of the old 80s classic "V" (also known as "V: The Miniseries", "V: The Final Battle", "V: The Series", "V: The Energy Drink" and "V: The Drug from True Blood").

This time round the writing is being done by The 4400 co-creator/executive producer Scott Peters, so at least it's being written by someone who is familiar with aliens.

According to Variety, the original V served as an allegory for the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. Scott Peters said he won't being relying on Nazis for his remix but rather on what happens when the masses have blind faith in their leaders. Gee, I wonder who they might be talking about?

To quote Movieweb, "...even without the same storyline, the original V's bones will remain: As in the '80s version, the show will open with an enormous army of spaceships hovering over the world's major cities. The visitors say they've come to help Earth, but their motives are nefarious (in the original, they wanted to steal the world's water supply)." Oooooh... a mystery! I just hope they don't repeat the same shots that Roland Emmerich ripped off when he made ID4.

I wonder how this will effect Kenneth Johnson's plans to make a motion picture of V.

V: The Second Generation

I was just chatting with Matt about the old V series we watched on the telly back in the 1980s and how, seeing as everything else is being remade, they should remake V. Well, after a huge 5 seconds of Googling I found this article about a new V feature film (and sequels) that are being worked on.

Kenneth Johnson, the creator of the original show had this to say, "... since I own the motion picture rights to V, we’re in the process to do a remake of the original mini-series first as a theatrical feature, which I’m so jazzed about because it will give me an opportunity to really realize it and execute it in a way that was impossible to do back then. Then that will lead to the obvious sequel, because it is a franchise, and then we’ll get into The Second Generation and I'm hoping we’ll be able to do two movies, because there’s certainly enough material in the novel to warrant two separate sequels. That’s my goal at this point and that’s what we’re in the process of doing. I just literally came from a meeting, 15-20 minutes ago with a fellow in Beverly Hills who really says that we’re gonna do it."

Woo hoo! Now the dodgy effects of people eating rodents can be renewed into dodgy CG effects of people eating rodents. Can't wait to see the spiffy suits (with giant sunnies) and the Star Trek rip-off landing craft.