That's "V" as in the letter "V," not the Roman numeral for "five." Otherwise, I guess the sequel would be "VI."
Now, the original V aired when I was about seven, so I never watched much of the original miniseries, or the TV series that followed. It's not like I couldn't have watched it as a seven year old, but I was kind of a wuss when I was a kid and those scary lizard people were too much for me. If any of you would like to go back in time and heckle me as a seven year old, feel free to do that. Seriously, that kid needs some toughening up.
So anyway, TV Filter hepped me to information about a possible miniseries sequel to the original series, helmed by original writer and director Kenneth Johnson. Right now it seems they're trying to secure the finances needed to do the series, but before that happens you'll be able to purchase the novel based on Johnson's screenplay by early 2007. According to the IMDb trivia page for V - The Second Generation, several original cast members have signed on to the project, including Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund. This is IMDb, so I don't necessarily trust the information completely, but if all of this turns out to be true, it could be a very cool thing for fans of the series.
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7-07-2006 @ 6:52PM
Gavin said...
Back in the haylcon days of the Clinton era (lol), a friend of my dug through his old 80's videotapes and found a goldmine of things his OCDs forced him to religiously tape, file, and catalog as a child. He had the V miniseries and a ton of episodes from the TV show. Even back then, which was only a decade later, the stuff looked terribly dated and was pretty pedestrian stuff. I can only imagine how awful it would look today.
They better put some amazingly talented creative team behind this or I predict major suckage.
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7-07-2006 @ 7:02PM
CeeAre said...
Well, it was just a matter of time I suppose. I must have been pretty young when this was on too. I remember it though, it freaked me out bigtime. But I really loved it.
I'm wondering when we'd hear about this again.
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7-07-2006 @ 11:10PM
Jamie said...
The original V was a World War II allegory. I sense this one being an allegory on Iraq. Lord, I hope I'm wrong. We've already been dragged through that with the mediocre Doctor who episodes "Alens of London/World War III."
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7-08-2006 @ 1:07AM
LC said...
The orignal mini series and the Final Battle were excellent Science Fiction. The TV series was utter and total crap.
Kenneth Johnson was not part of the TV series and it shows. I remember at the time it was on that I read that they hired no writers familiar with science fiction which explains quite a bit to why it was so bad.
The best way to put it was V the mini series is to V the series as Battlestar Galactica(today) was to BSG from the 70's.
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7-08-2006 @ 1:30AM
Keith L. Dick said...
Please whoever the powers are that be, save us from this Monstrousity... Pick something else to remake and expand on... I know it had a story behing it, but it's been done already...
Make "Popeye the Sailor vs. the Men and Woman from MARS" or something like that...
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7-08-2006 @ 2:28PM
Michael Murphy said...
I was one of the young boys that enjoyed the movie and the series !
This would be awesome ! Consider the new generation learning the possibilities of Humankind becoming food for an alien race, after our governments sell us out for promises of technology, that we may surpass in generations to come.
I say the series was reminding all of us who enjoyed it, that a few commen men and women could go from oridinary people to be saviors of the Earth.
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7-09-2006 @ 12:04PM
anthony said...
i can't wait for this show , i remember the first series aired i was nine years old ,damn i missed the 80's
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7-09-2006 @ 8:10PM
kel said...
I loved the miniseries as a kid, but thought the series was crap after they introduced the whole alien/human baby (Starchild?) storyline. When BSG started up the whole Cylon/human storyline, I immediately thought of V. I just hope that storyline doesn't take BSG down the crapper as well.
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7-11-2006 @ 3:34PM
The Jeremy said...
Ah, BSG and its riffed "Star Child" plot.
I loved the two original *V* mini-series. Loved em. And I loved when "Diana" later appeared on the short-lived series *The Highwayman*. Shame her career really didn't continue after that.
As for Kenneth Johnson, the man later brought us *Alien Nation*. He rocks. Just like JMS does.
Maybe this new series will negate the tv episodes and be a direct sequel to the original miniseries'.
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