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.

Voltron Film Update

It appears as though the Voltron feature film is back on the cards but this time with a lesser budget that previously thought. Of course that could be the doom of the project or the boon as you can do some pretty amazing things these days without the big James Cameron bucks.

To quote Movieweb, "Producers expect to attach a director within the next week.

Last summer, New Regency picked up the rights to the property, adapted by scribe Justin Marks.

Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders."

WTF? Voltron in Mexico? That's as bad as Godzilla in NYC... Surely the American kids who watched Voltron in the 80s are mature enough to accept a storyline that's NOT based in the USA.