{"id":135831,"date":"2018-01-12T09:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135831"},"modified":"2018-01-12T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:50:18","slug":"the-return-of-the-avengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/the-return-of-the-avengers.html","title":{"rendered":"The return of “The Avengers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As in the 1960s UK TV show that, in its most famous seasons, featured Patrick MacNee as John Steed, and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.<\/p>\n

Given that it’s going on fifty years ago (though, through the magic of reruns and DVDs and streaming it may seem only yesterday), I don’t feel too bad about Yet Another Reboot. It’s interesting that it’s being consciously set in the 1960s, which could give it some fun humor, or could make it a total flop.<\/p>\n

Reboots are successful when they meet the delicate blend of evoking key aspects of the original (sufficient to warrant claiming the associated property), while doing something new and original with it (sufficient to warrant the new show’s existence). Successful reboots can be a lot of fun and even vie with the original for popularity (see Battlestar Galactica<\/i> for a key example). Unsuccessful reboots are legion (and The Avengers<\/i> has an example of that in the disastrous movie adaptation, though, to be fair, there are parts of that film I appreciate a lot).<\/p>\n

For that matter, The Avengers<\/i> is a weird show to begin with, with an evolving style, a changing list of allies for Steed, a very British sense of humor and zaniness — coming up with something that works with both its cult status and will appeal to a modern audience will be an interesting challenge.<\/p>\n

(I will note the thematically and chronologically related Man from UNCLE,<\/i> which got a movie reboot that I thought was actually quite good and did pretty well, but was not continued for reasons not having to do with its quality. So something like this is, in fact, possible to pull off.)<\/p>\n


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\nShane Black Writing Avengers TV Show (No, the OTHER Avengers)<\/a><\/span>
\nThe Nice Guys director is currently writing an Avengers TV show, an adaptation of the popular 1960s spy TV series starring Diana Rigg and Patrick McNee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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