Original Bionic Woman creator worried about remake
Do we live in more cynical times? I guess I would, too, whether an NBC exec called my show “kind of cheesy.” Although Johnson has been impressed with the work of producer David Eick on Battlestar Galactica, he’s not so certain they’re doing the right thing with the remake of his show.
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When someone remakes a TV show or a movie, they often go more serious or darker. Is it considering producers and directors feel they have to go “serious” to justify a remake? Do the producers feel that they can’t compose a quality show that additionally happens to be light?
Kenneth Johnson, the creator of the original Bionic Woman series in the ’70s (a spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man), tells the L.A.
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Light? Does he really think you could remake Bionic Woman with the same tone and it wouldn’t be cheezy? It was great for what it was in the era but up against Heroes it would look silly if they didn’t up the darkness factor a notch.