Guy Who Remade 'Galactica' Is Remaking 'Wild, Wild West'

[Wee67]

Don't know if this is old news, but-
Ron Moore, the man who rebooted "Battlestar Galactica" into a hit series, is now taking on a reboot of the 1960s CBS Western action drama "The Wild, Wild West," reports Deadline.com. Moore is teaming on the project with Naren Shankar, a former executive producer/showrunner for "CSI. "Like "Hawaii Five-0," CBS is hoping for "The Wild Wild West" to capture the spirit of the original show while giving it a new spin. "The Wild Wild West" starred Robert Conrad and Ross Martin as secret agents in the 1870s, working for President Ulysses S. Grant. It ran from 1965-69 and inspired a 1999 feature film version that starred Will Smith and Kevin Kline, which failed miserably.

[Mikey]

Hmmm,

IMO Brisco County, Jr. was about the best Wild Wild West remake there could be.

They should just leave the show alone now.

[Cmonster]

YAY!!! More remakes!!! AWESOME!!!

SC

[megomania]

Hopefully it doesn't SUCK as bad as the Kevin Kline/Will Smith/Salma Hayek movie

[fallensaviour]

YAY!!! More remakes!!! AWESOME!!!

SC

See what you have to look forward to now Sandy...LOL

In ten or fifteen years somebody will approach you about a remake for Hunter Prey,with a new spin.

[The Toyroom]

I'm digging Hawaii Five-O so if WWW is even close to that I'll be watching....Anything to make me forget about that Will Smith disaster....

[generic]

Since Wild Wild West was sort of Steam Punk before there was Steam Punk, I wonder if they'll head more in that direction to try to bring in those fans.

[TheDoLittle]

It's starting to get a lot like Windows... keep rebooting until something works.

[bobws]

I didn't like what Moore did on Trek or to Galactica and won't give him the time of day on this. i'd rather go buy the old shows dvd's.

[megoscott]

Big fan of Moore and the rebooted Galactica. But I do wonder if he might try an original property sometime. This sounds like a stinker.

[trekman101]

Ron Moore always thinks he can make the original better

[johnmiic]

I'd love to see more adventures for The Wild, Wild, West but I don't know Moore is the guy to do it. Besides when will he have time if he is milking Galactica to death with: Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome???? Will his new WWW be a dark & depressing vision like his partner filmed with the new Bionic Woman? Or will it actually be an adventure series & fun to watch? I can just see him stealing from the film Unforgiven and combining it with something else to make a very un-WWW series.

@Scott, Moore was Exec Producer on Rosewell & Carnivale`& a TV movie called Virtuality. That must show some of the breadth of what he can do when not "re-imagining" someone else property.

[knight errant00]

A friend of mine always complained how he hated the Tom Cruise Mission: Impossible and the Will Smith Wild Wild West because they each "messed with one of the Three Sacred Jim's -- Jim Phelps, Jim, West, and Jim Kirk" . . . haven't talked to him in years, but I suspect ST09 didn't win any points with him either.

Don't know how Moore's planning WWW, but a more currently-steampunky take on the original's proto-steampunkiness might sell. I'd hope he wouldn't take it too dark and serious -- I wouldn't want camp, but but it has to be clever and fun.

[AAAAA]

The man from W.I.L.D. wild west The Prisoner on Gilligan's island on a mission impossible rat patrol