Blake's 7 Reboot

[ZariusTwo]

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated The Last of Us director Peter Hoar has launched a production outfit and is working on a reboot of cult British sci-fi classic Blake’s 7.

Hoar has opened “genre-based” indie Multitude Productions with A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder exec Matthew Bouch and West End producer Jason Haigh-Ellery. The trio have snapped up a wealth of IP including Blake’s 7, which last aired on the BBC 45 years ago.

Hoar, who directed the critically-acclaimed “Long, Long Time” ep of HBO’s The Last of Us, plans to direct the Blake’s 7 reboot, which will go out to buyers soon. Bouch would “love it to go to the BBC” and will likely seek co-pro funding from the American streamers and European players like RTL.

Created by Terry Nation, the man credited with inventing the Daleks, Blake’s 7 aired for four seasons on the BBC from 1978 to 1981. The show, which exhibited numerous tropes of the traditional space opera, followed the exploits of political dissident Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), who leads a small group of rebels against the forces of the totalitarian Terran Federation that rules the Earth and many colonized planets. There have been several reboot attempts down the decades but none have caught fire. Multitude struck the deal with Nation’s estate and casting and writing conversations will commence in due course.


With genre shows like Doctor Who stuck in something of a rut and less money around in high-end scripted, Hoar and Bouch believe that now is the time to set up shop. They have been joined at Multitude by exec producer Lizzie Worsdell, whose credits include Amrita Acharia’s indie pic The Carer.

“The Blake’s 7 story is legendary because they were given a ‘softly softly’ slot that was intended for police drama with a budget intended for one big set and a few location shoots,” said double-BAFTA winner Hoar, whose credits include It’s a Sin and Umbrella Academy. “At the time it felt like it meant something. Those shows got into my veins. I could tell they didn’t have money but I was able to compartmentalize and enjoy the ride knowing that the sets wobbled.”


Hoar compares Blake’s 7 to Disney+ hit Andor, which he thinks is a success not because of its circa-$25M per hour budget but “because of the integrity, wit and sophistication.”

He said Doctor Who, which Disney+ has just exited after only two seasons of one of the biggest co-pro deals of the decade, is a cautionary tale.

“I don’t think anybody would doubt the skills at the front line of that show but something went wrong,” he added. “I think there were lots of areas you could point fingers at but ultimately it wasn’t a better show with more money. And that’s a good thing, because we haven’t got the money anymore, nobody has.”

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[Mayhem]

If it did happen, you can see the point of it go way over so many peoples' heads and screams of "woke" around the socials from butthurt right wingers saying it's another attack on their beliefs. But that's the point. Like Animal Farm, Blake's Seven was poignently meant as an anti authoritarian series. It's not anti right wing per se, but so many conflate the two as one and the same.

[ZariusTwo]

I think a revival ought to come on just as Reform enter power (though Keir Strarmer's present government could stand to put up with the same type of commentary)

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I’ve often thought Paramount should buy the rights to Blake’s 7 and use it as framework for a Star Trek series.
Set post the Dominion invasion of the DMZ.
Captain Blake, an ex-Star Fleet officer who join the Marquis. Post the Dominion invasion he’s been captured by S31 and has learnt about Section 31’s plan to infect the great link with the virus (as seen in Season 7 of DS9)
The Rest of the 7 are all other Section 31 prisoners who join with Blake for their own purposes of wanting to end S31
• Avon should be an arrogant Romulan Tal Shair Computer scientist. (I’m thinking Carolyn Seymour’s Commander Toreth (TNG Face of the Enemy)
• Vila (the locksmith and thief), A Ferengi
• Cally the telepath, Betazoid
• Jenna/Tarrant, skilled pilot, a Cardassian (for ***** n giggles).
• Gan The muscle (Klingon, Jem Ha’Dar or a Nausicaan)
• Orac, some form “positronic net/computer in a box” or an android.
The have a prison break and steal a Section 31 protype ship. (I’m thinking a defiant class with a “Pegasus” style phased cloaking device.
The mission end Section 31.
They could if they wanted use Michelle Yeoh as the Servalan character. The person working for S31 charged with capturing Captain Blake. Chuck in a Commander Travis type as her 2IC.