The streaming service is planning a remake of Lost in Space, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Rumors of a Lost in Space remake first emerged a year ago, and Deadline reports that the show had multiple bidders "in a competitive situation". Are you excited to see Lost in Space being rebooted as a new series on Netflix?
The revised script for the adventure series is now being drafted by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who are the writers of "Dracula Untold", a Hollywood horror film.
A mix between the Swiss Family Robinson and popular science fiction at the time, the show capitalized on the excitement of the era's space race between the United States and USSR. Burns and others had unsuccessfully tried to revive the classic story in the past, most recently in 2003, when WB Television commissioned a John Woo-directed pilot.
Netflix preps Lost in Space series
Airing a full year before Captain Kirk burst onto screens in Stark Trek, the show ran for three series and spawned a whole host of memorable characters. The series revolved around the Robinson family and its robot ready to explore a planet around Alpha Centauri until the nefarious Dr. Smith sabotaged the whole thing, sending them way off course, visiting a variety of planets in the process.
Although the original series was family-friendly, the reboot might take a darker, grittier approach. 'Just speaking for myself, we really felt that we had learned a lot from not only what we did, but what other people did and did wrong'. He had previously worked on the script of the series until the death of Sheila Allen, widower of Irwin Allen, who was the then producer and director the fiction series. Despite production by Synthesis Entertainment with Irwin Allen Productions, 20th Century Fox TV, and Regency TV, WB decided not to order a series.
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