Posted on 09/08/2017 4:44:58 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A re-imagining of Steven J. Cannell’s 1981 cult classic The Greatest American Hero is flying back to development with a new creative team, a big new commitment and a big twist.
ABC has given a put pilot commitment to the half-hour single-camera project. In it, the unlikely (super)hero at the center — Ralph Kinley (played by William Katt) in the original series — is Meera, an Indian-American woman. The Greatest American Hero comes from Fresh Off the Boat writer-producer Rachna Fruchbom and Nahnatchka Khan’s Fierce Baby. 20th Century Fox TV, where Fierce Baby is based and Fruchbom recently signed an overall deal, will co-produce with ABC Studios.
Written by Fruchbom, the re-imagining of The Greatest American Hero centers around Meera, a 30-year-old Indian-American woman from Cleveland, whose talents include tequila drinking and karaoke and not much else. Then some aliens entrust her with a super suit to protect the planet, and the world has never been in more unreliable hand
It might be worth watching if they do it Bollywood style!
Oh. Wait; what, it's not?
My first thought as well. Just seeing this headline I was immediately singing it in my head.
Liawatha has her hands full fighting the millionaires and billionaires.
Ralph Kinley???
Make that Ralph Hinkley. Of course, after Reagan was shot, he was referred to as Mr. H.
Yes, the theme was great.
If I want to hear what an albatross sounds like in its death throes, I'll watch a National Geographic documentary.
Because the female Ghostbusters movie did so well.
Crash and burn is the prediction.
The original series folks already aired a female reboot, “The Greatest American Heroine” which ran 3 years after the otherwise final episode, in 1986. That ‘heroine’ was too much a green ditz to resurrect the series back then.
Losing the instruction book, and the replacement instruction book, was the key gimmick. The nearly infinite power of the suit was constrained because Ralph et al didn’t know how to make work very well. And earlier suit holder, a Howard Hughes type, told Ralph as much in one memorable episode.
I watched a few episodes again a few years ago when it was available on Netflix because I had memories of it from my childhood as a silly but fun show. Unfortunately my adult eyes couldn’t get past seeing Ralph as a whiny, idealistic, liberal, girly man manipulated and managed as a asset by the FBI guy. I also couldn’t accept that woman as good looking and capable woman as Connie Selleca’s character would be the least bit interested such a beta male doofus. Outside the suit he was a high school teacher and was clearly incompetent at that. So much for childhood memories.
Never mind aliens that were capable of interstellar travel and able to engineer a suit that grants superpowers somehow being so stupid as to pick the wrong human, and also not be able to recover the instruction manual for him or just give him a new copy. (They must have had a very strange sense of humor.)
Lost Pilot #5: Greatest American Heroine
https://moviesoothsayer.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/lost-pilot-5-greatest-american-heroine/
I once watched one or two episodes of Arrow - terrible, predictable, and boring.
I’ve not seen it since high school.
If I saw it now my views might be like yours.
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