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Monday, July 28, 2008

Englund and Other Originals Out of New "V" Project

If you can ignore the '80s-hotness of Jane Badler for just a moment, I'd like to pass along some news on everyone's favorite sci-fi/horror TV miniseries. In talking to Cinema Blend at--you guessed it!--Comic-Con, V-veteran Robert Englund stated in no uncertain terms that the proposed new miniseries NBC has been developing for the past three years (!) will in fact be a complete remake, with new actors taking the place of people like himself, Marc Singer and Ms. Badler (pant, pant).

Judging by certain bone-headed complaints raised by peacock execs, it appears some of the hold-up may be over concerns that the new V miniseries will appear to have "ripped off" Independence Day. In other news, the new Dune movie is rumored to be "ripping off" Star Wars...Sigh...

2 comments:

AndyDecker said...

Lol. They really reached the point where the snake devours itself, or?

It must be nice to live in a world without history ;-))

With this mindset a remake of V can be truly fun. The incredibly heavy-handed Resistance parabel of yesterday - which V was - must just be a horror for todays tv-exec like the ending, where the heroes basically fight the invaders by poisoning the world with bio-weapons.

B-Sol said...

V was a very fun and entertaining miniseries in its day. It would be interesting to possibly see it reinvented, the way Battlestar Galactica was.

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