Are You Ready to get LOST IN SPACE?

Deadline reports that Legendary TV has decided to move forward with a remake of Irwin Allen’s Lost In Space for the small screen.

Matt Sazama and Buck Sharpless, who wrote Dracula Untold (which opened with $1.3 million in late night box office sales), will pen the adaptation. They will also executive produce along with Kevin Burns of Synthesis Entertainment, who holds the rights to the original series though Space Prods. Inc.

The original Lost In Space ran on CBS for three seasons starting in 1965. There’s even a rumor floating around that CBS executives developed Lost In Space after picking Gene Roddenberry’s brain and then rejecting Star Trek. However it came about, the show began as a pretty straightforward Swiss Family Robinson type of affair, with the Robinson family lost in the wilderness after the Jupiter 2 is sabotaged by stowaway Dr. Smith. The show quickly devolved into “The boy, the clown, and the Robot” and took a more comedic approach by the time it ended its run, although the unaired pilot is much darker and more dramatic.

The show got its obligatory big screen adaptation in 1998, but didn’t quite perform to fans’ expectations.

According to the report, Lost In Space has been a “passion project” for Legendary TV for a while, so much so that the entire division was closed when efforts to develop the show fizzled the first time out. Prior efforts to reboot the show landed a pilot at WB in 2003, but it never went to series.

What do you think? Ready for Lost In Space back on TV? And would this intensify the conversation about the return of Star Trek to the small screen as well?

Or maybe it’s time for a remake of The Lost Saucer…