"CANNES -- Robert Evans is teaming with ITV Global on a feature film based on the 1970s British TV series "UFO."
Evans is producing with Avi Haas and Henri M. Kessler. Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek are penning a script.
The series debuted in 1970 and ran for three years, with characters created by Gerry Anderson. It was set in 1980 and revolves around Shado (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization), a covert military organization that thwarts an alien race that has been kidnapping and killing humans for decades, then using the body parts. Shado headquarters is hidden beneath a Hollywood studio, and the studio mogul is actually the Shado commander.
The movie will be set in the year 2020.
The Robert Evans Co. has a first-look deal at Paramount, which will be first stop for the project. "We know the importance of the 'UFO' series brand to ITV Global, and we will work closely with them to build this into a franchise," Evans said. Evans has a deal with Paramount and HBO Films to develop a six-hour miniseries on Chicago attorney Sidney Korshak."
I have great fondness for the original tv show, probably my favorite Gerrry Anderson show.
Though I am always willing to give new versions and remakes a chance, I have a feeling that this is probably going to bear very little resemblance to the original show.
It was so iconic for not only the fashions, but also the vehicle and spaceship designs. Just wondering whether they will try and keep closely to some of the original designs, or go in a completelly different direction.
But if they were to go down the BSG route with it, and make it darker then I would have no problem with that at all. It was after all basically a pretty grim and dark subject anyway, aliens coming to earth to harvest human organs.
Evans is producing with Avi Haas and Henri M. Kessler. Ryan Gaudet and Joseph Kanarek are penning a script.
The series debuted in 1970 and ran for three years, with characters created by Gerry Anderson. It was set in 1980 and revolves around Shado (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization), a covert military organization that thwarts an alien race that has been kidnapping and killing humans for decades, then using the body parts. Shado headquarters is hidden beneath a Hollywood studio, and the studio mogul is actually the Shado commander.
The movie will be set in the year 2020.
The Robert Evans Co. has a first-look deal at Paramount, which will be first stop for the project. "We know the importance of the 'UFO' series brand to ITV Global, and we will work closely with them to build this into a franchise," Evans said. Evans has a deal with Paramount and HBO Films to develop a six-hour miniseries on Chicago attorney Sidney Korshak."
I have great fondness for the original tv show, probably my favorite Gerrry Anderson show.
Though I am always willing to give new versions and remakes a chance, I have a feeling that this is probably going to bear very little resemblance to the original show.
It was so iconic for not only the fashions, but also the vehicle and spaceship designs. Just wondering whether they will try and keep closely to some of the original designs, or go in a completelly different direction.
But if they were to go down the BSG route with it, and make it darker then I would have no problem with that at all. It was after all basically a pretty grim and dark subject anyway, aliens coming to earth to harvest human organs.
