![]() The two will executive produce with Kevin Burns of Synthesis Entertainment, who holds the rights to the original series though Space Prods. Feature writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who penned Dracula Untold, which opens tonight, have signed on to write the adaptation. I’ve learned that Legendary TV has put in development Lost In Space, a remake of sci-fi master Irwin Allen’s 1965 cult TV classic. Matriarch Maureen (Molly Parker) has broken her leg, Judy is trapped under the ice, time is running out, Will falls down a crevasse into a scary forest where he meets his robot (less plumbing, more CGI, same utterance: “Danger, Will Robinson”).The Robinsons are heading back to outer space. The opener is packed with nail-biting action and literal cliffhangers. On the way to establish a new colony, they crash on a planet that looks like Canada but with even more extreme geography, weather and fauna. The parents aren’t really together the kids have modern anxieties and mardiness. The Robinsons, no longer the perfect nuclear 1960s family, have gained some 21st-century attitude and dysfunction. The medium has travelled light years in half a century.There is nothing cardboard about the new one – a serious Netflix budget sees to that. It’s atmospheric, with great John Williams music, but the robot looks like it was made from cardboard boxes and bits of plumbing equipment. ![]() Wow, it looks like the TV equivalent of cave painting. I’m (just) too young for Lost in Space 1.0, but I found the first episode. Now, with Elon Musk talking about getting his Mars colony up and running by 2040, this Netflix reboot doesn’t require such a giant leap of the imagination. When Irwin Allen’s series about the Robinson family, and their struggles to survive once marooned in space, ended its initial three-series run, man had yet to take his first small step on the moon.
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