{"id":87724,"date":"2016-06-01T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=87724"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:05:26","slug":"quatermass-remake-series-coming-from-jeremy-dyson-and-bbc-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/quatermass-remake-series-coming-from-jeremy-dyson-and-bbc-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Quatermass remake series to be written by Jeremy Dyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little while since anyone last took on Nigel Kneale&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>Quatermass<\/em><\/strong>, so we&#8217;re very excited to hear that <strong><em>The League Of Gentlemen<\/em><\/strong> co-creator Jeremy Dyson will be working on a new version of the doom-laden sci-fi for BBC America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/tv\/news\/amc-rejuvenates-bbc-america-1201785334\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that a\u00a0<strong><em>Quatermass<\/em><\/strong> remake is part\u00a0of BBC America&#8217;s slate of new shows. Details are minimal beyond Dyson&#8217;s involvement, and the plot synopsis stretches as far as telling us that it&#8217;s about\u00a0&#8220;a professor and his daughter who investigate an alien invasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bernard Quatermass was the creation of the incredible Nigel Kneale (<strong><em>The Stone Tape<\/em><\/strong>), and appeared in films and TV series of sometimes varying quality. When everything came together (the brilliant serial\u00a0<strong><em>Quatermass And The Pit<\/em><\/strong>, for example, which was also turned into a brilliant film), these stories were compelling, terrifying, and human, with the driven scientist\u00a0Quatermass at their centre.<\/p>\n<p>Starting life on television, <strong><em>Quatermass<\/em><\/strong> was a big hit for Hammer in the 1970s, and was revived for a one-off live BBC drama in 2005. The character has been played on screen by Rudolph Cartier, John Robinson, Andre Morell, Brian Donlevy, Andrew Kier, John Mills and Jason Flemyng.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumblings for a while that the revived Hammer was looking to make another big-screen <strong><em>Quatermass<\/em><\/strong>, but we definitely like the idea of a writer like Dyson working on the character, and we&#8217;ll be very interested to see who is cast in the title role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4306\/s\/scifinow-issue-119\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC America is launching a remake of Nigel Kneale&#8217;s Quatermass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":87725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[4649],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/p01gx2c7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}