'The Avengers' are coming back. (No not those ones.)

[Rich Watson]

These ones.

Just be better than that horrible movie and keep it set in the 1960s is all I ask.

I wonder if they can use the name though, or will they have to call it "Steed and Peel" like the comic book revivals did?

https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-av...ry-writers-mickey-down-konrad-kay-1235795963/

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Keep it in the 60s like all those Bond movies? I love period pieces but I assume the appeal is lost on younger audiences. The serials referenced in Raiders of the Lost Ark were more recent at the time then the 60s is now. There's a bunch of Marvel properties I'd love to see set in the 60s and 70s that I'm pretty sure will never happen.

Though I'm curious what they will do as the Kingsmen movies have taken the spiritual successor slot.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I wonder if they can use the name though, or will they have to call it "Steed and Peel" like the comic book revivals did?

Good question, although I think that Marvel made a point to address theirs as "Marvel's Avengers" specifically to avoid confusion. But given how big Marvel's version has gotten with current audiences over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if they do go with "Steel & Peel" in an ironic twist of fate just for marketing purposes. I think even if they try to subtitle Steel & Peel as The Avengers, it may still lead some people to go in expecting to see a connection with the Marvel version.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I’ve always assumed that the 2012 film was called Avengers Assemble on this side of the Atlantic to avoid confusion. But at this stage the Marvel ensemble is clearly the better-known franchise.

I’ve a feeling that, like The Prisoner, this show was very much of its time. The Prisoner has admittedly been rebooted but I don’t think the updated version had a lot in common with the original (happy to be corrected if I’m wrong). It might be possible to do an update that connects with modern audiences but I think it might be a hard sell.

 

[Coops]

Oh I see. You mean the PROPER Avengers are coming back. Let's hope they don't go gritty and grounded with it, nobody wants to watch that.

 

[Starkers]

Interesting. The Avengers was great and a show has good potential, casting has to be spot on though, so much of the show's joy was how wonderful MacNee was, and of course Blackman, Rigg and Thorson and how they interacted with him.

While I know period spy media doesn't always sell well (I loved the Man from UNCLE but it didn't do great at the boxoffice) I do think the 60s setting is such a huge part of the show's appeal (not that I wasn't a fan of The New Avengers in the 70s) and Steed wandering around 2024 with a bowler hat and umbrella would seem very odd, but he'd also seem odd without them.

 

[Rich Watson]

Either the '60s or go down the "Gotham" route of having it be sort of the present but not quite.

 

[The Wormhole]

I’ve always assumed that the 2012 film was called Avengers Assemble on this side of the Atlantic to avoid confusion.

Hell, even on my side of the Atlantic there was some confusion. I remember back in 2012 telling my parents I was going to see The Avengers. Their reaction "there's a remake of The Avengers?" I was momentarily confused what they meant by remake before realizing and I said "No, no, not those Avengers." That just confused them and they asked "what other Avengers are there?" So I spent the next ten minutes explaining Marvel's Avengers to them.

 

[Set Harth]

whole lotta avengin' goin on...

 

[Captain_Amasov]

Heh, just recently watched Stan Fine's retrospective on the 60s series, so the timing on this article is quite funny to me.

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We'll see if this turns out better that the 98 film version.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I’ve a feeling that, like The Prisoner, this show was very much of its time. The Prisoner has admittedly been rebooted but I don’t think the updated version had a lot in common with the original (happy to be corrected if I’m wrong).

The updated version had something very much in common with the original--the final episode left viewers wondering "What the heck did I just see?"

 

[valkyrie013]

All ive seen is clips, so not much of an opinion, but do like spy shows and movies.Did watch The Saint with Rodger Moore, that was great.

The show beat The Avengers in comics, so they should go with that name. 61 vs 63

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Not too thrilled about a new version of The Avengers, as I worry it will be in the spirit of the original series in visual trappings only, without the heart, and in-universe reasons for the evolution of the Steed character from cold and rather ruthless to the dangerous yet charming character he would become. If I had to remake the series, I would fight the fanboy impulse to have Peel partnered with Steed from the start, instead follow the then-unintentional pattern of Steed's changes in partners--from David Keel, to Martin King, Cathy Gale, and so on.

 

[JD]

This could be fun, but it's really going to come down to the casting and the writing. There have been a lot of spy series with a similar male/female pairing, so they're going to need to work hard to make this new version standout.

 

[Marc]

This could be fun, but it's really going to come down to the casting and the writing. There have been a lot of spy series with a similar male/female pairing, so they're going to need to work hard to make this new version standout.

though it was probably the final run of episodes that probably played up the spy angle the most with the introduction of Mother and many of the story lines.

the years with Emma Peel were probably more crime fighting with episodes that veered from absurdist (something nasty in the nursery) to the coldly dramatic murdersville) .

Can’t remember many of the Cathy Gale eps but there was one where aircraft were being lured in a siren fashion to a tragic end with the villains looting the wreckage.

 

[SithHappens]

We already had a New Avengers...

 

[Set Harth]

One day I was out on the road with my friend and we saw a woman driving around with a license plate that said "EMMAPEEL"

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Can’t remember many of the Cathy Gale eps but there was one where aircraft were being lured in a siren fashion to a tragic end with the villains looting the wreckage.

The Gale episodes were not as pop-slick as the Peel era, sort of the middle ground between the sometimes colder Steed, wit a friendly, but not as flirtatious relationship with Gale, while the plots still had more of a detective edge to them (despite Steed being some sort of agent).

 

[Captaindemotion]

Laurie Johnson, who wrote the memorable theme tune for the original, has died https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68054498.amp

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Sad news. He wrote many a beautiful, memorable score (1964's First Men in the Moon &1975's Hedda come to mind) and is criminally underrated, as far as i'm concerned.