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Apple's TIME BANDITS from Taika Waititi (TBD)
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Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker Taika Waititi has boarded Time Bandits, the TV series adaptation of the beloved Terry Gilliam-directed movie, which is in development at Apple.

 

Waititi will co-write and direct the pilot for the potential series, co-produced by Anonymous Content, Paramount Television and Media Rights Capital. He also will serve as executive producer alongside Gilliam and producer Dan Halsted (People Of Earth).

 

Apple last summer made a deal for the rights to turn the 1981 fantasy into a TV series. 

 

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On 6/29/2022 at 7:35 PM, D84 said:

🙏 let this never happen. I don't want that :censored:hat remaking a classic.

Between the Russo Brothers and Taika Waititi, they are now associated with so many projects there is no way these happen.

Remember the Russo Brothers are also working on the Grimjack movie as an 80's dream come true.

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The Friends Emmy winner will head the cast for Apple TV+’s Time Bandits, Taika Waititi’s series adaptation of the 1981 Terry Gilliam film. The show has also cast seven other actors: Kal-El Tuck, Charlyne Yi (Always Be My Maybe), Tadhg Murphy (Conversations With Friends), Roger Jean Nsengiyumva (Tomb Raider), Rune Temte (Captain Marvel), Kiera Thompson and Rachel House (Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople).

 

Time Bandits, which Apple began developing in 2019, is described as “a comedic journey through time and space with a ragtag group of thieves and their newest recruit: an 11-year-old history nerd” named Kevin (Tuck). Waititi is a co-writer on the series and will direct the first two episodes.

 

Paramount Television Studios, Anonymous Content’s AC Studios and MRC Television are producing Time Bandits. Waititi executive produces with frequent collaborator Jemaine Clement, Iain Morris and Garrett Basch along with Handmade Films, which produced Gilliam’s 1981 movie.

 

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According to a new whisper, renowned comedian and entertainer Terry Gilliam is not happy with Taikia Waititi’s upcoming Apple TV adaptation of his 1981 cinematic fantasy film Time Bandits.

 

In September 2022, Apple announced that it had not only officially greenlit a ten-episode television adaptation of Gilliam and Palin’s film, but that they had tapped the Thor: Love and Thunder mastermind to direct and executive produce the series.

 

As per an alleged crew member who reportedly spoke to World of Reel‘s Jordan Rulmy, Gilliam abruptly ended and walked off of a December 2022 visit to the series’ New Zealand set after finding himself massively disappointed with Waititi’s handling of his original vision.

 

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Review: 'Time Bandits' reboot with Lisa Kudrow is full of tired jokes

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They say comedy is all about timing, not time travel.

 

Alas, if only there was anything funny at all in Apple TV+'s "Time Bandits," a rehash of the 1981 Terry Gilliam film. That cult-classic romp came from the minds behind Monty Python and was witty, inventive and surprising. Its successor? Not so much.

 

For Apple's version, the Python brain trust has been replaced with a more current crowd: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. The pair are behind FX's superb "What We Do in the Shadows," and each has plenty of comedy credentials in his own right, from Waititi's sadly canceled "Our Flag Means Death" to Clement's long "Flight of the Conchords" career.

 

But even if the recipe was right, something went wrong in the oven. "Bandits" (streaming Thursdays, ★½ out of four) is a slog. The story of a history-obsessed kid who's whisked off to travel in time with a group of hapless thieves just doesn't work in this new version, which stars Lisa Kudrow as the head hapless thief in charge. It's boring, the jokes are tired and predictable, the stakes are down in the basement, and the actors are entirely lacking in chemistry.

 

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I'm still waiting for a Krull remake! Waititi lost a few points from me after he did Thor: Love and Blunder. 

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