The Last of Us Director Peter Hoar Is Working on a Reboot of the Classic BBC Series Blake's 7

Peter Hoar, the Emmy-nominated manager of The Last of Us, is moving connected a reboot of the British sci-fi cult classical Blake’s 7.

The caller mentation of the communicative volition beryllium produced by Hoar’s caller outlet, Multitude Productions, which helium has precocious started with West End shaper Jason Haigh-Ellery and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder exec Matthew Bouch. The reboot volition soon beryllium shopped astir to buyers, and Bouch would “love it to spell to the BBC,” according to Deadline, wherever the task past aired 45 years ago.

The outlet besides notes the series, which primitively aired for 4 seasons from 1978 to 1981, volition apt question fiscal enactment from American streamers and European studios. Hoar volition nonstop the reboot pursuing his enactment astatine the helm of “Long, Long Time,” the critically acclaimed occurrence of The Last of Us that won him large praise.

The bid was primitively created by Terry Nation, whose different large assertion to fame is his instauration of Doctor Who's iconic Daleks. Blake's 7 followed "the exploits of governmental dissident Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), who leads a tiny radical of rebels against the forces of the totalitarian Terran Federation that rules the Earth and galore colonized planets," Deadline noted.

Hoar compared the reboot to the acclaimed Andor bid “because of the integrity, wit and sophistication” some shows have, not the wealth it takes to bring them to life.

“The Blake’s 7 communicative is legendary due to the fact that they were fixed the [British constabulary show] Softly, Softly slot that was intended for constabulary play with a fund intended for 1 large acceptable and a fewer determination shoots,” Hoar explained successful a statement. “At the clip it felt similar it meant something. Those shows got into my veins. I could archer they didn’t person wealth but I was capable to compartmentalize and bask the thrust knowing that the sets wobbled.”

No connection connected a merchandise day yet for the reboot, but hopefully we’ll spot it harvest up successful 2027.

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