"V" to return in new three hour TV movie

[Fearless Freep]

They're back: 'V' to invade NBC again
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LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Twenty years after NBC's hit sci-fi miniseries "V" invaded the small screen, the network is bringing the aliens back with "V: The Second Generation," a three-hour TV movie from the original creator Kenneth Johnson.

Johnson, who wrote, directed and produced the original miniseries, is set to write, direct and executive produce the sequel, which has been given a script commitment. It centered on the Visitors, aliens from a distant planet who came to Earth with the promise to solve the world's problems through their high technology, but after gaining control of the planet through subterfuge and media manipulation, began to methodically kill their hosts.
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The new movie, produced by Warner Bros. TV and Kenneth Johnson Prods., will take place 20 years into the future. As the alien forces are turning more and more Earth citizens into followers, the resistance suddenly gains a powerful and mysterious new ally.
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Several cast members of the miniseries and the weekly series, including Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Jane Badler and Robert Englund, could reprise their roles in the telefilm if it goes into production.
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[Damien01]

I dont know, "V" was kind of a good movie, and it seems that they are going to mess it up...

I wounder if the aliens secret weapon is... Jar-Jar... (now that would be funny)

come to think of it... did anybody ever seen (Martians Go Home!) I would love to see that movie remade and the aliens are Jar-Jar... it would be great...

[Grumpy Guy]

I'm personally glad they're doing it.  With the original writer/director yet.  Good stuff.

[Fearless Freep]

Be nice to see Marc Singer and Robert Englund in some more noticeable roles

[Ash]

The only scene I can remember from the entire series was when that girl had the baby and it stuck it's lizard tongue out right after it was born!

[Grumpy Guy]

ASHTHECAT wrote:

> The only scene I can remember from the entire series was when
> that girl had the baby and it stuck it's lizard tongue out
> right after it was born!

That scene gave me nightmares for a week.

[Damien01]

The only scene I can remember from the entire series was when that girl had the baby and it stuck it's lizard tongue out right after it was born!

That was in V part 2... its a 3 part story, and I think that happen at the end of the first part.

[AndyC]

Funny, Ash, I thought you were going to say the scene where Badler unhinges her jaw and swallows the guinea pig. Everybody was talking about that scene when it came out. Twenty years later, it looks pretty cheesy.

I agree about the alien baby. I can remember peeking through my fingers in anticipation during that birth scene.

[AndyC]

Yep, that was V: The Final Battle. The half-alien baby was the key to the visitors' downfall. Put the resistance onto the whole red dust thing.

[Neon Noodle]

I remember being REAL p**sed when they killed off Ham Tyler in the television series. ASH was right on with the alien baby - people talked about that more than the Challenger!!!

Let's hope they don't get Marc Singer doing the subliminal Nike ads again...

[Conrad]

I remember merely seeing the title "V" in the newspaper television listings and thinking "oh WOW!  They're going to screen a film series of my fave Thomas Pynchon novel!"

Sadly, I was to be disappointed.

[AndyC]

I remember one of the brainy kids in my class trying to tell everybody that the title was "five." We immediately set him straight, that it was "V for victory," and suggested he actually try watching it. He shut up at that point.

[Ash]

Actually I remember V standing for "visitors".

Am I wrong?

[Chadzilla]

Yeah.  It was V for victory, taken from old WW2 resistance graffiti (or so said writer/producer/director Kenneth Johnson when it first aired).  There was a big scene in the first mini-series where a holocaust survivor taught a new generation the V for victory symbol.

The whole thing was meant to be taken as a retelling of WW2 jewish resistance to nazism in a sci-fi format.

Looking forward to a sequel.

[JohnL]

>I remember merely seeing the title "V" in the newspaper television listings and
>thinking "oh WOW! They're going to screen a film series of my fave Thomas
>Pynchon novel!"

I saw the commercials for it and my first thought was that they filmed the novel Childhood's End (there was supposed to be a version being worked on).