First it was a campy, colourful (well, after an initial monochrome run) 1960s TV series. Then in 1998 it became a film, with William Hurt in command and Joey from Friends as a hotshot pilot. Now? Lost In Space is headed back to the small screen thanks to Legendary TV.
The company, will recently announced plans for a series based on the Myst game, is apparently not finished raiding the archives for properties it can turn into new shows. This new take on Lost In Space will presumably dial down the cheesiness and focus instead on the space family Robinson idea, though hopefully without the cheerless, overly-complicated time-twisting dynamics of the film.
Dracula Untold writers Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama are aboard to write the first script and shape the series. It will follow the same basic concept of an American family dispatched on a long space voyage to colonize other worlds who run into trouble thanks to an enemy agent’s sabotage.
This all follows another take on the show that was reportedly in development around the same time that J.J. Abrams’ first **Star Trek **got under way, but that appears to have gotten lost itself. Hopefully this one has better luck.