'Space: 1999' to time-travel a century

"Space: 1999," an legendary seventies British series which was syndicated within the U.S., has been redeveloped by ITV Galleries America and HDFilms as "Space: 2099." HDFilms prexy Jace Hall is professional creating the project. Hall lately professional created ABC's "V," another reincarnation of the science-fiction series from the previous decade. "This can be a rare and exciting creative chance for anybody involved with storytelling and something that i'm honored to get,Inch Hall stated. "Sci-fi is really a effective format able to imagining a persons symptom in thought-invoking ways. "When we're indeed re-imagining the franchise and getting new things and highly relevant to present day audiences, Personally i think strongly that a few of the overall tones set through the original "Space: 1999" tv program represent a thrilling platform to understand more about options." ITV was the initial broadcaster within the U.K. of "Space: 1999" (which starred American thesps Martin Landau and Barbara Bain), compelling ITV Galleries Amerca prexy/Boss Paul Buccieri to comment that "after a lot more than 35 years, we're thrilled to become creating a new vision in our much beloved franchise for audiences worldwide." Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com