“Space:1999” is being upgraded to “Space: 2099”!
ITV Studios America and HDFilms are looking to remake one of the most profoundly stupid sci-fi concepts of the 1970s, transforming the brainchild of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson into a 21st century TV series.
It’s about a space explosion that makes the moon travel so fast it can enter different solar systems, but slow enough that the moonbase colonists can hang out with intergalactic species.
Andy Howell, explain how this happens!
ITV is teaming with HDFilms honcho Jace Hall, who also handled the effects for ABC’s aborted reboot of “V.”
Find Deadline’s exclusive on the matter here.
