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Again, taken from the Den of Geeks web Site.
It’s back to Liberator, as director Martin Campbell helms the latest in a long-ish line of attempts to reboot classic UK sci-fi series Blake’s 7…
After the recent Sky deal collapsed, many assumed we’d seen the last of attempts to revivify cult UK sci-fi series, Blake’s 7, but not so.
News arrives today that Casino Royale and Green Lantern director Martin Campbell has teamed up with US indie TV group Georgeville, which purchased the Blake's 7 franchise rights from B7 Media, to produce a reboot of the original show.
For the uninitiated, the titular seven were a septet of renegade space heroes living as fugitives for resisting the totalitarian Terran Federation. Dubbed “The Dirty Dozen in space”, four series of Blake’s 7 ran between 1978 and 1981 (reviews of which you can read, here).
Campbell, set to direct the pilot, is to team up with Heroes and CSI writer Joe Pokaski on the reimagining, about which little else is known as yet. We'll bring you more as soon as we have it.
sounds good to me
Syfy considering remake of the classic sci-fi series Blake’s 7
Syfy Channel is considering a reboot of one of the greats of science fiction past: Blake’s 7, which ran on BBC for four seasons from 1978 to 1981.
Blake’s 7 has a script-to-series commitment from Syfy, according to Deadline, meaning that if the network likes the script they will green light a 13-episode series.
Marc Rosen (Threshold) would produce the series for Georgeville Television, with Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) writing the pilot and Martin Campbell (Green Lantern) attached to direct. Pokaski and Campbell would be among the executive producers if the show goes to series.
Georgeville shopped the series to networks last month, with Syfy an obvious choice — particularly after its success rebooting the 1970s series Battlestar Galactica, which found both popular and critical success.
The original series was created by Terry Nation, who also created Doctor Who‘s Daleks. It told the story of a crew of hardcore renegades and criminals who escape from a prison planet, battling both humans and aliens alike. Its influences were felt in other cult favorites, including Farscape and Lexx.
Syfy is also developing Clandestine in the hopes of returning to space-based television (story).
Happy to hear this
I was having trouble sleeping the other night and found my Blake’s 7 disks It was very nice to even just hear the music. still very watchable imho. Hope the rebuild is good and well received so it last .
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