In response to a question posed to a SyFy representative on Twitter, David Hewlett has revealed he is taking back the rights to his sci fi comedy concept, Starcrossed.
David declared (see his Twitter page):
SyFy tells me that they’re going to give the Starcrossed rights back to us…once paperwork clears we shoot it!
A few minutes later, in response to another question about whether it will still be a made-for-web series, David said:
really depends on what SyFy allows with the paperwork…I want a 2 hour pilot!
Starcrossed grew out of Hewlett’s movie A Dog’s Breakfast, which featured a character playing an actor on a science fiction space opera.
Sci Fi Channel announced they would make the concept into a web series, as we reported here. The idea of the show is to take a comedic look at the backstage happenings of a TV science fiction production.
We hope David will get to take Starcrossed before the cameras soon, and that we’ll see some familiar faces in the production.