Glen A Larson was the king of 1980s action series. He created Magnum, Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, The Fall Guy, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as well as less well known shows such as The Highwayman, Manimal and Automan.
Recently, he's become all the rage again with a rather good remake of Battlestar Galactica now about to enter its fourth season and Knight Rider having been made into a TV movie that will probably be a series in the Fall.
So, what do you reckon should (or will) be the next remake on the cards - because you know there will be one? Magnum's been in development as a movie for ages. Do you reckon it will emerge into the light first? Or will it be something else? And who do you think should star in it? Or how should it be altered for the new millennium, if at all?
March 7, 2008 | Reply
I'm picking 'Automan'! Never saw it when it aired - the publicity pictures from it looked just too goofy. A human head on a blue light body!
But the technology has advanced enough to make a holographic man more believable today. And I'm sure that's what they'd be striving for - authenticity. Ha!
Recently the producers of 'Lost' said that nobody on the show wears shorts and cut-offs because it makes them look silly. "But what about Magnum?" I thought.
So I checked out an episode on Sleuth TV to refresh my memory... and um, they were right.
Rather than recast 'Magnum PI', they should let Selleck do it, a la Ford still doing Indy. And because of that, play it straight in order to go for the laughs.
But if I had to cast for a big screen Magnum? I don't know... Josh Brolin, maybe?
March 7, 2008 | Reply
Ah, Automan. It looked so cool to me when I was I was all of 10 years old. Now it looks kind of gay. It really was the Torchwood of its day.