EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Smiths TV version of cult flick The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension looks like it has found a home with Amazon. MGM and the streaming service are close to locking a deal that will see the Mallrats director bring the 1984 sci-fi adventure comedy to the small screens sometime in the next year, I hear.
There is no specific episode commitment yet for for the series at this development stage. Still, picking up the iconic Buckaroo will certainly increase Amazons Comic-Con cred, with the streamer already making a large San Diego footprint with its downtown Amazon Village and panels today for Thunderbirds Are Go and The Man In The High Castle.
If final negotiations close in the next day or so, the deal could be one of many topics the never-short-for-words Smith addresses at his Comic-Con Hall H appearance Saturday. Since revealing that MGM gave a green light to his series pitch earlier this year, Smith has already said hed like to see original star Peter Weller and cast members John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, and Jeff Goldblum show up in the TV adaptation of the movie directed by W.D. Richter and penned by Earl Mac Rauch. A longtime fan of the film, Smith has also said he sees the first season of any potential Buckaroo series as a new look at the plot of the pic, using a second season to take the story to new places.
