Glen A Larson: what’s the next hot remake?

7 March 2008 Rob Buckley Film, US TV 3 Comments

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?

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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