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Kevin Smith is working on a TV series adaptation of MGM’s 1984 sci-fi adventure
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. He got the job after
his episode of The CW’s The Flash ran. He plans on directing most of the
episodes but has feelers out to Richard Kelly, Edgar Wright and Quentin
Tarantino. The planned series will run ten episodes and draw inspiration from
Earl Mac Rauch’s novelization of the Buckaroo Banzai script. That book included
Buckaroo’s arch nemesis Hanoi Xan, who Smith wants Peter Weller to play. Smith
is also working on a ten episode Mallrats sequel TV series. He told Deadline
what to expect of the series: “It’s a multigenerational story, so it’s about all
the kids in Mallrats and all the kids they had, taking my cues from one of my
favorite programs in the world, Degrassi: The Next Generation. Mallrats as a
series is kind of like one gigantic blob of soap opera with a lot of dick jokes
in it. When we were doing the feature version of it, I had 90 minutes to tell
one story. But now, essentially, I have ten half-hour episodes, so that’s five
hours to kind of pull and tell the same story and really like dive into the
characters. Like, all the characters came back in the Mallrats 2 script, but
sometimes it’s just like, hey, it’s that person, you’re moving on. Now we get to
go into their lives and stuff and what happens after happily ever after, so it’s
pretty damn fun and funny and stuff.” Smith confirms everyone in the original
cast will be coming back and Ben Affleck may do a cameo. |
