WWTBAM Bored

Further proof that bad ideas in Hollywood never die; they just go on the back burner for a short time and then re-emerge, worse than ever. According to Deadline Hollywood, an outfit called Legendary TV has partnered with the man who holds the rights to Lost in Space and has commissioned the screenwriters of the new Dracula Untold movie to develop the scripts.

I don't know of anyone other than a handful of Comic Con fans who still care for the original show, and the theatrical movie from the 90s with William Hurt and Gary Oldman taking their roles seriously bombed badly.

http://deadline.com/2014/10/lost-in-spa ... tv-848901/

Sadly, the only way I can see a workable revival of this as a series would be to make it totally camp (OK, that didn't work for a lot of cinematic versions of 60s and 70s TV, but that seems to be the formula).

The things I remember as a child in the 1960s about LIS was (a) the first season wasn't too bad (apparently there's a pattern in Irwin Allen's shows -- the first 10 shows are pretty decent, then it goes to hell in a hurry; not sure if it's budgets, or if that's all the good stories he had, but they usually devolved into monster-of-the-week programming); (b) the second and third season I really hated because it aired opposite Batman and the place I was at on Wednesday evenings had the TV set to LIS.

(Of course, that makes the grand irony of Gary Oldman being on cinematic versions of both of those shows, as Dr. Smith and Commissioner Gordon!)

Maybe if they stick to how the original series was in the early stages (cliffhanger endings, a more serious attitude), it might work. But, folks are going to want the campy, shrieking Dr. Smith, rather than the saboteur Dr. Smith, and that leads the series into a slippery slope.