Here’s something you don’t see every day – Sony’s given the green light for a remake of the short-lived TV series, Cupid, despite the fact that the original’s star, Jeremy Piven, isn’t gonna be able to reprise his role. The show only lasted a few months back in 98/99, but it’s got a pretty loyal fanbase and was a bit of a critical hit to boot, much like the longer lived “Veronica Mars,” also created by Rob Thomas.
“For the last couple years, I’ve been talking to ABC about how to do an anthological romantic comedy a la ‘Cupid’ or ‘Love Boat,’ ” Thomas said. “We kept beating around ideas and kept coming back to ‘Cupid’ as the best of the group. So they said to me, ‘Why not go back and do ‘Cupid’ again?”
Thomas said he was “shocked” by the request — in a good way.
“I’m getting a chance to do what writers never get the chance to do, which is to go back and try” to improve a work, he added.
Scribe said that while he’ll write a completely new pilot, “I’m not going to reinvent it. What they’re buying is the show.”
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