{"id":1445,"date":"2008-03-03T00:42:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/02\/simon-pegg-upset-about-the-spaced-us-remake\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T01:07:07","slug":"simon-pegg-upset-about-the-spaced-us-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/03\/simon-pegg-upset-about-the-spaced-us-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Pegg upset about the Spaced US remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Spaced<\/a>The classic TV series Spaced<\/a> is going to be remade by Fox<\/a> with McG<\/a> as one of the producers.<\/p>\n

Star and co-writer Simon Pegg<\/a> has released an official statement<\/a> in which he is understandably upset:<\/p>\n

My main problem with the notion of a Spaced remake is the sheer lack of respect that Granada\/ Wonderland\/Warner Bros have displayed in respectively selling out and appropriating our ideas without even letting us know.<\/p>\n

A decision I can only presume was made as a way of avoiding having to give us any money, whilst at the same time using mine and Edgar\u2019s name in their press release, in order to trade on the success of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, even professing, as Peter Johnson did, to being a big fan of the show and it\u2019s creators.<\/p>\n

A device made all the more heinous by the fact that the press release neglected to mention the show\u2019s co-creator and female voice, Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson). The fact is, when we signed our contracts ten years ago, we had neither the experience or the kudos to demand any clauses securing any control over future reversioning.<\/p>\n

We signed away our rights to any input in the show\u2019s international future, because we just wanted to get the show made and these dark days of legal piracy seemed a far away concern. As a result, we have no rights. The show does not belong to us and, those that do own it have no obligation to include us in any future plans.<\/p>\n

You would perhaps hope though, out of basic professional respect and courtesy, we might have been consulted. It is this flagrant snub and effective vote of no confidence in the very people that created the show, that has caused such affront at our end.<\/p>\n

If they don\u2019t care about the integrity of the original, why call it Spaced? Why attempt to find some validation by including mine and Edgar\u2019s names in the press release as if we were involved? Why not just lift the premise?<\/p>\n

Two strangers, pretend to be a couple in order to secure residence of a flat\/apartment. It\u2019s hardly Ibsen. Jess and I specifically jumped off from a very mainstream sitcom premise in order to unravel it so completely.<\/p>\n

Take it, have it, call it Perfect Strangers and hope Balkie doesn\u2019t sue. Just don\u2019t call it Spaced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whilst I don’t like to prejudge anything, the thought of McG producing a US version of the show sounds like a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n

For those who have never come across the show, get the original on DVD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> Spaced Out<\/a> – Fansite of the show
\n> Find out more about Spaced at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The classic TV series Spaced is going to be remade by Fox with McG as one of the producers. Star and co-writer Simon Pegg has released an official statement in which he is understandably upset: My main problem with the notion of a Spaced remake is the sheer lack of respect that Granada\/ Wonderland\/Warner Bros […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}