UFO remake to star FRINGE's Joshua Jackson

Variety is reporting that Fringe's Joshua Jackson will star in the upcoming big screen version of UFO.

If you've never heard of the '70s British series UFO, you've been missing out. Set in the distant future world of 1980, the show followed SHADO, a covert agency that tried to defend the Earth from sinister aliens who came from their dying home world to harvest human organs. It was Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's first live-action sci-fi series, after a few series featuring disturbing little puppet people (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, etc.) It was slightly less odd than the puppet shows, but only slightly, with storylines that were often quite dark and adult for the TV sci-fi of the era.

UFO (or "Yu-fo," as the show rather insistently pronounced it) is being adapted into a movie by first-time director Matthew Gratzner, who previously handled the effects for such films as The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Hancock and Iron Man. There's no telling yet how faithful Gratnzer will be to the original series... But sadly I suspect he'll probably cut the sparkly silver catsuits and crazy purple wigs that were standard issue for female Shado agents in the Anderson's 1980.



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