Remember a few weeks back when Kevin Smith started sporting his Banzai Institute hockey jersey on his Instagram feed? It may not have been a fun homage to a great movie, Smith may actually be working on a Buckaroo Banzai television series.
During the May 13th Hollywood Babble-On podcast, Kevin Smith discussed a meeting he’s had with MGM following the success of his Flash directing experience.
“(Flash) opened some weird doors. Today’s meeting was pretty massive. I was meeting with MGM…about turning The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension into a television series.”
Apparently the studio wanted to know if Smith had any ideas on how to turn the movie into a TV show. “Basically, you just do the entire movie for season one, then season two you finally do the sequel we’ve all dreamed about, Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.”
From Smith’s explaination, it looks like MGM wants to do a Fargo-esque take on the property.
Buckaroo Banzai as a television series has been in the works forever. Way back in 1998, FOX did some initial work in bringing the adventures of Buckaroo and the Hong Kong Cavaliers to life, but it never progressed beyond a few test shots of the jet car.
It’s not set in stone, but Smith is hopeful, and quite honestly, so am I!
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Skip the movie. We have the movie. We don’t need to revisit the movie. Just move on to the World Crime League for cryin’ out loud.
Not thrilled, as I am afraid what was truly clever will now be replaced by Kevin Smith-clever. But I wish them well. Nothing else was going to happen with the property, and “We’ll always have Paris.”