V Miniseries Invading ABC
October 10th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Email | Share | TweetABC is developing a new adaptation of V, the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards visiting Earth, reports Variety. V spawned a second miniseries and TV spin-off written by The 4400 co-creator/executive producer Scott Peters. Warner Brothers TV, which was behind the original, is once again producing the project, which was sold as a spec script to ABC. Peters is set to executive produce, along with HDFilms principal Jace Hall.
The new V will center on Erica Evans, a Homeland Security agent with an aimless son who’s got problems. When the aliens arrive, her son gloms on to them causing tension within the family. As in the original V, several storylines will unfold simultaneously. As in the ’80s version, the show will open with an enormous army of spaceships hovering over the world’s major cities. The visitors say they’ve come to help Earth, but their motives are nefarious.
That sounds very basic & plain out zeroxed from the original. Different person, same aliens, same plot. Her son falls in the with the wrong crowd and runs around eating rats & shedding his skin. Then comes home & has a big heart to heart with mom…..until the next time he decides to go hang out with his lizzie pals.
I hope this is series isn’t going to be as vacous & vapid as the description sounds. I was a big fan of the OG show, this sounds like Coming to America or something. Lizard kids will go to school with human kids & problems ensue. Bob goes to work at the accounting firm and finds out his boss is a lizzard. No kidding? The conspiracy should unfold slowly & not be so obvious. Not just having the lizzies arrive & saying “Hi, we are here” and then have the humans & lizzies co-existing. Curdled milk anyone?
No Jane Badler? No Micheal Ironside? WTF? There is a perfectly good script out there by the guy who did Babylon 5 that picks up at the end of the miserable series.
Can we please, please remember what made the mini-series so good???
No freddy krueger either, their uniforms are different,come on.
There is even a better script out there from the people who did The Pretender and Tin Man that focused on the people and not just sci fi mechanics. Too bad ABC didn’t read it. This one will bomb!
So is this a miniseries or a pilot for a new weekly program with no definite ending?
If it’s not going to have a definite ending, I won’t be watching next week. I saw the original and it won’t make a good X-files type soap opera.