This may quality for a bit of reboot rage.
Or maybe not given that Ron Moore is involved. He did, after all, successfully reboot “Battlestar Galactica.”
This time, Moore wants to reboot another classic show, “Wild, Wild West.” The original ran in 60’s and was a hybrid of two popular genres of the time–James Bond movies and Westerns.
Moore is reportedly pitching the reboot to CBS. CBS is currently enjoying critical and ratings success with a reboot of “Hawaii Five-O.”
The series has been adapted for the silver screen. The movie version (which runs about one a week on AMC) starred Will Smith.
Surely a rebooted TV version will be better…
I’d give it a try based on BSG and Caprica.
Having never watched any of the original WWW episodes I would be interested in watching a reboot. My fear though with Moore is that it would probably be turned dark and depressing.
Jonah Hex?
Forget it if it is anything like the ridiculous movie. If we he wants to use the ideas of the TV show and build on them like he did with BSC go for it.
As recently as a 4-5 years ago, the originals would air in mini-marathons on TV Land or one of those channels (what channel’s running Bonanza reruns right now? Starz Westerns?)
Anyway, catch a few episodes if you can. There were many an evil contraption that would be considered steampunk today 🙂
To be fair, the movie suffered from a lot of Executive Meddling. If Ron gets the kind of leeway Sonnenfeld didn’t…
Might actually get behind this one.
Never saw the original, but I might give the reboot a look since it’s Ron Moore. He did a great job on BSG.
No.
So…. it turns out Will Smith’s character was an “angel” of some sort?
Just going by the movie, it doesn’t qualify as “reboot rage”.
Steampunk is pretty hot right now (no pun intended), so I can see interest in the concept. If Moore doesn’t overload it with quasi-spiritual mishmash, I’d be willing to give it a try.
RDM, none of this western BS! I want more Battlestar Galactica Movies!
Ron Moore did successfully reboot BSG for 2 seasons, which were great. He then drove it straight into the ground for the next 2 seasons, culminating in one of the worst series finales I’ve ever had the misfortune to sit through.
Caprica is a snooze fest, stopped watching that after 4 episodes.
I think I’ll just skip the Wild Wild West. Christ if he’s such a genius shouldn’t he be amazing us with new original programming?
Boo, Ron. Just Boo.
I think I would give it a few episodes to see what direction it goes in. I wonder, seeing what he did with Starbuck and Boomer if he’d go female with the lead roles.