Chicago Tribune’s “The Watcher,” Maureen Ryan, is keeping tabs on the latest on Farscape and its production crew after the recent news that the Sci Fi Channel just made a deal with the Jim Henson Company, in association with RHI Entertainment, to bring back some of the “Farscape universe.” Farscape‘s revival will be in the form of ten webisodes that will be “a few minutes long” each. Mark Stern of the Sci Fi Channel stated that they’re still not sure who’ll be starring in the new on-line series, but he made the observation that Browder just finished the two direct-to-DVD movies for Stargate and that “he’s available.”
On the question of Browder’s availability, Ryan notes:
Browder has another project to keep him occupied, at least part of the time: Sci Fi also announced that it had picked up “Going Homer,” a miniseries he developed with “Farscape” director Andrew Prowse.
Here’s Sci Fi’s description of the project: “Greek and Roman deities walk among us, but only 12 year old Homer Ulysses Jones can see them for what they truly are. When Homer and his father are forced to flee a custody battle that would likely separate them, they journey from Los Angeles to the home of their ancestors — in Ithaca, N.Y. As they travel through the heart of Americana, Homer’s eyes will be opened to a mystical landscape of capricious Gods; some will help our heroes, some will divert them and others will try to kill them to prevent them from reaching their ultimate goal — home.”
“We’re really in early days,” with that project, Stern said. “We’ve bought the concept we’re going to be attaching a writer to work with him and we’re going to see where it’s going to go. It’s probably going to be a 6-hour miniseries. He and his partner have a full on story and an outline of where they want to go,” but the script has yet to be written, so there’s no projected air date for the miniseries.
NOTE: The SCI FI WIRE article (quoted in an earlier article on Solutions) stating that Browder will star as Homer’s father has been modified to reflect that Browder is the executive producer (along with Prowse), rather than stating outright that he is the mini-series’ star.
To read the full article at the Chicago Tribute website, visit The Watcher: ‘Farscape’s’ unlikely but welcome return.
[Thanks to Dream-a-Little and Morgana for the heads-up.]