, a movie that is writer Drew Pearce 's tribute to the original show, his love of stunts, and to the shaggy detective dramas that influenced himas a kid. It broadcast in the late Saturday afternoon slot, between televised wrestling and inane game shows, in the slot reserved for imported American action shows.
It’s also arguably the show that helped him into show business. “One summer,” he says, “I decided I was going to be a stunt man. … We had a little back yard, and for my birthday that summer I brought a crappy digital watch from the market, but it had a stopwatch on it. So I built a stunt man circuit in the back yard, and every day, for hours, I would time myself around the circuit.” However, he adds, “This was before I discovered I have a crippling fear of heights.
So he changed tracks and became a scriptwriter, and eventually met up with director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick. They formed a strong working relationship on, as well as a handful of projects that never got made. So when producer Guymon Casady approached the three of them about reviving, “I think they thought I’d be like, ‘Ooh, a remake of a TV show but from the Eighties?’ but obviously my reaction was ‘Let me at it.
And that Trojan horsing is important to Pearce, and a big part of what attracts him to blockbusters. That’s why the eagle-eyed may spot the influence of British activist documentarian Adam Curtis in
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