ABC greenlights new V pilot

[CaptJimboJones]

Johnson mentioned on AICN that he was working on a theatrical version, and that this new TV version wouldn't affect his.

Sure, because there's such an appetite for new V that they can simultaneously market a new TV show and a feature film that are entirely unrelated.

I'll be stunned if either of these projects see the light of day. As much as I enjoyed the original miniseries when I was a child, very few people even remember it outside of sci-fi geek circles.

 

[Dayton Ward]

So this is why they cancelled "Pushing Daisies" for, a remake?

I doubt one has anything to do with the other.

No wonder major network tv is loosing viewers to stations like TNT,TBS & FX.
I'll take "Rescue Me" & "Psych" anyday over these stupid remakes.

Though I do like a few network shows, you still Preach the Word. Along with Burn Notice, and Leverage, and The Shield (which is gone, but it still kicked all kinds of network TV ass when it was on), etc.

 

[Kryton]

Well I guess that brings us one step closer to Alien Nation: 2010.

 

[TerriO]

Dayton, if we work together, we can Vanguard this one and alternate books.

This is what Wikipedia has:

List of V Novels

I think it's complete.

I'll check my shelves at home. I have them all.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Dayton, if we work together, we can Vanguard this one and alternate books.

That would be about three or four kinds of awesome.

I'll check my shelves at home. I have them all.

I have about half of them, mostly from the original run that came out the same time the series was still on the air. If a new line ends up happening (Hey, one can dream, right?), I'll have to see about scrounging up the others.

 

[Pindar]

Goddammit this thread just made buy the Complete DVD Box set.

Well, I am not going to be the one who explains it to my wife when it turns up in the post.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

If it makes it to air, I'll give it a watch.

Goddammit this thread just made buy the Complete DVD Box set.

I haven't yet, but I'm about to. You're not alone.

 

[ClayinCA]

I love the original mini, The Final Battle somewhat less, and the weekly series sucked unwashed ass

That's pretty much how I feel. And if Ken Johnson isn't involved with this, I won't be watching it.

I'd love to see a new line of tie-ins, especially if they followed the general path of the original line, with different books focusing on Visitors and resistance cells other than those from the mini-series/TV show.

Yeah, those were great, weren't they? Our own Howard Weinstein wrote some of those, as I remember, and I think Ann Crispin did, too.

 

[Mike Farley]

Will they reboot the old characters to or make it about brand new ones? We can start casting for them!

Nathan Fillion as Mike Donovan
Jill Wagner as Juliet Parrish
Reed Diamond as Martin
Peter Wingfield as Ham Tyler
James Cromwell as Nathan Bates
Julie Benz as Diana

Ham Tyler will probably be a woman in the new version.

 

[ClayinCA]

^...played by Joanna Cassidy.

 

[cb31]

This is what Wikipedia has:

List of V Novels

I think it's complete.

Thanks for the list, I have all 16! Now I just need to buy the new novel.

 

[Aragorn]

Ham Tyler will probably be a woman in the new version.

Mutton Tyler?

 

[darkwing_duck1]

This seems to be the same project we were talking about six months ago...

 

[Tulin]

That V weekly series that aired Friday nights back during the Fall 1984/Spring 1985 TV season was craptacular.

It was the hip thing if you were in Elementary & maybe Intermediate School back then. That & VOLTRON.

But if you watch it now it was a crappy show. Plus it built on the 2nd V miniseries which Johnson, from what I understand, had little involvement in.

I heard the biggest proof of Johnson's absence is final battle's ludicrous finale with Magic Girl.

Remember that ridiculous unrealistic garbage?

"Preh - tay - nah - mah"

 

[Pindar]

Remember that ridiculous unrealistic garbage?

I remember her tight sweater.

 

[KB24]

I really liked the original before it died its slow and painful death with the weekly series. Poor Kenneth Johnson though fro being boosted out of his own series again. Will perhaps tune in nonetheless. If this really gets on tv. These days a pilot means next to nothing.

 

[stj]

Digging this thread up from the dead, just for the Internet-given right to complain ahead of time about a series.

Space war is dead. Mentally, anyhow. Spaceships shooting at each other are silly. Jet fighters in space are even dumber. Starships that are so cheap that they're like boats in a marina mean all economic motives for space war are nonsense. Aliens or human space travelers who don't know modern computer science or modern genetics are equally ridiculous.

 

[Greg Cox]

I never liked the original so I have little hope a remake would be worth much of my time.

Not necessarily. Look at BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. I never liked the original, but I'm hooked on the remake.

 

[QuasarVM]

I love the original but i cant say i am too thrilled since Kenneth Johnson has nothing to do with it. Anyway check it out....discuss.http://www.scificool.com/abc-greenlights-new-v-tv-show/

No Kenneth Johnson...no me!

 

[Kira's Mom]

I loved the original V when it first aired. I still have the VHS set and the novel (which covered both miniseries), lost most of the rest of the tie-ins. The only two I really remembered were East Coast Crisis and Chicago Conversion.