Blakes 7 to return?

A reboot of the 1970's British Space Opera cult classic "Blakes Seven" is officially in development.

Blakes Seven was set in  a dystopian future, in which a band of rebels opposed the totalitarian Terran Federation. It ran for four seasons each of thirteen fifty-minute episodes. Initially conceived as "the dirty dozen in space" if has much the same feel of a small group of flawed heroes opposition a huge, powerful and tyrannical state as the much more recent Star Wars project, Andor.

There were some brilliant acting performances, particularly from Gareth Thomas as the eponymous hero Roj Blake, an idealist who leads the crusade against the evil Federation for the first two seasons, Paul Darrow as Kerr Avon, an apparently cynical and coldly rational computer genius who takes over from Blake as leader of the rebels for the third and fourth seasons, and Jacqueline Pearce as Supreme Commander (later President) Servalan, the show's main antagonist.

According to Deadline, Peter Hoar has signed on to direct the project.

My source for the news that there is a project to bring out a new version of Blake's Seven is an article on the "JoBlo" movie site which you can read by clicking on the link below:

Blake's 7: The Classic British Sci-Fi Show is Getting a Reboot

You can also read the Deadline article about Peter Hoare's ambitions for the project at:

 'Blake's 7' Reboot In The Works From 'Last Of Us' Director Peter Hoar

      


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Vote Thrawn - the Chiss Alternative

Image
The Chiss race from the fictional Star Wars universe don't really do elections: their society is run by a family-based oligarchy.   But if the Chiss did do elections, Grand Admiral Thrawn's bid to lead the galaxy far, far away might have included a manifesto something like the one below. This post is a parody, not an election communication and no attempt to influence any real election on the planet Earth is intended. Fed up with a choice of galactic leaders between psychopathic Imperial mass murderers and utterly ineffective soggy-liberal New Republic wimps? Had enough of politicians who promise you a safe and secure society and then get your entire planet blown up - or even blow it up themselves? Sick to death with incompetent senators who wouldn't know a security threat if it was aiming a turbolaser at them from six feet away? There is an alternative - the Chiss alternative - vote for Admiral Thrawn! My name is Mitth'raw'nuruodo - former Senior Captain in the...
Read more

Book review - "Powerless" by Harry Turtledove

"Powerless" by Harry Turtledove is an alternative history novel set in a world dominated by the Soviet Union. The first two chapters of this full-length novel originally appeared in slightly different form in the September/October 2018 issue of " The magazine of Fantasy and Science Fictio n."  Greg Benford suggested to Harry Turtledove that he extended it into a novel and this is the result. Like the majority of Turtledove's alternative history novels, the story in this book operates on two levels. On the surface level, it is a work of fiction set on an alternative version of Earth. On a deeper level, it is an account of a real-world series of historical events told from an alternative perspective. The world of "Powerless" begins to diverge from our own with the Confederate States of America successfully winning independence in the 1860's. By the time in which the novel is set, many years later - and we are never told exactly how much later - the a...
Read more

Book review, "City in Chains" by Harry Turtledove"

Image
An Alternate History novel of the occupation of Paris "City in Chains" is Harry Turtledove's latest novel exploring the dilemmas of real history through the medium of alternative history.  It opens in a city called "Lutesse" which very, very obviously represents Paris occupied by the Nazis at a time roughly analogous to the winter of 1943/44. It explores the dilemmas posed by foreign occupation to residents of the city through the eyes of two viewpoint characters.  The first viewpoint character is a junk dealer called Malk Malkovici who is a follower of the "Old Gods" and had migrated to Lutesse before the war from "Nistria." In other words, he is analogous to a Jew from Eastern Europe, probably from Romania (though Bulgaria or Finland would also work.) He faces all the horrible choices someone in that position would face in Nazi occupied Europe - he desperately wants the Nazi occupiers (sorry, Chleuh occupants) to lose the war, but has to ma...
Read more