Blakes 7 (tv series) reboot - At last!

[Neil]

Is this finally going to happen?

http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/martin-campbell-and-georgeville-tv-shop-reboot-of-cult-u-k-sci-fi-series-blakes-7/#more-305552


Georgeville Television, an independent TV studio co-founded recently by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen, has teamed with feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royal) to revive the cult 1978 adventure/sci-fi series Blake’s 7. Writer Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) will pen the re-imagining of the original series created by Terry Nation, a prolific UK TV writer who also created the Daleks for the classic BBC series Doctor Who. Campbell is attached to direct the Blake’s 7 reboot, which is being shopped to U.S. networks.

Please don't f*ck it up guys! We want dark and grimy, not fast and glitzy!

And I wonder how much they'll f*ck up the beautiful Liberator?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dDPe-7LtRYI/T00xQYpvGrI/AAAAAAAAAVI/cp-I0xLopaY/s1600/blakes7_episode2_liberator.jpg


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[shootemindehead]

As a 'Blake's 7' fan, I REALLY don't want to see this happen...cos it'll be absolutely awful. I can already see it now, it'll be some jazzed up, wannabe American, showy nonsense lacking everything that made the British original great.

Besides, nobody can play Avon like Paul Darrow.

...and Servalan...there's only one there too, I'm afraid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/blakes7/servalan/images/640/12maximumpower.jpg

[Neil]

^^ Suspect the effects will be better though :)

[Sammich]

After the executives and their MBA lackeys get involved, the show will end up being 90% special effects and 10% plot and character development.

This is going to end up a bigger train wreck than the "americanized" reimaging of Red Dwarf.