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If you were an early teenage boy in the late 1980s and early 1990s then you had a problem. There was no such thing as the internet, for a start, but Charlie’s Angles and Linda Carter as Wonder Woman were now a distant memory. Into this barren wasteland arrived a show… no… a revelation. Baywatch!
Many VCR pause buttons were destroyed through over-use as the show became a global phenomenon.
There ere at least two reasons for this.
We watched it for the plot
After a Dwayne Johnson-led comedy reboot movie that seemed to not understand anything about either its own tone, or the tone of the original show, Baywatch seemed potentially gone forever.
Well, now it is back.
The pilot episode will be in the hands of a director who seemed to be set for great things back in the 1990s and early 2000s but then, like the show, faded.
Charlie’s Angels and Terminator Salvation director McG has signed on to both direct and executive produce the first episode of the reboot of Baywatch at Fox.
This is part of McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision development deal with Fox.
Get your red one-piece swimsuit out, Outposters, because ahead of filming n Venice Beach in March, there is an open casting call on February 18th in Marina Del Rey. How good is your slow motion running?
Matt Nix (Burn Notice) will be series showrunner and executive producer. Original series producers Michael Berk, Greg Bonann, and Doug Schwartz will also exec produce.
In the words of the immortal theme tune – “I’ll be ready…”
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