After Magnum and MacGyver, another cult series will have the right to remake it!

After Magnum and MacGyver, another cult series will have the right to remake it!

Starsky & Hutch, the cult TV series from the 70s, may soon return to television with a female version. According to the information DeadlineFox is said to be working on a new version, this time with a female actress.

Starring Paul Michael Glazer and David Soule, this modern take on the series follows two female detectives, Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson. The duo will solve crimes in Desert City and try to find out who sent their fathers to prison for a crime they didn’t commit 15 years ago.

Sam Sclaver, who notably worked on Prodigal Son, and Elizabeth Peterson, writer on the medical series The Resident, will be the writers and showrunners for this new iteration. At this time, the identity of the two actresses who will be supporting Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson has not yet been revealed.

Created by William Blinn and produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, the original series, which aired on ABC from 1975 to 1979 – and in France from 1978 to 1984 on TF1 – centered on two detectives, David Michael Starsky (played by Paul Michael Glazer). . and Kenneth Richard “Hutch” Hutchinson (David Soule).

Together, they cruise the streets of the fictional city of Bay City, California in their red and white striped Gran Torino, solving cases with the help of “hot tips” Hag (Antonio Fargas).

In 2004, the police series was already the subject of a remake in the cinema. Directed by Todd Phillips (Joker), this new version of Starsky and Hutch was directed by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

Source: Allocine

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