being developed for TV
Kevin Smith (of "Clerks", "Mallrats" and "Tusk" fame) is in the works of developing the classic 1984 movie about nuclear physicist/pop star Buckaroo Banzai battling creatures from the 8th dimension who have taken over humans (including John Lithgow as Dr. Lizardo; and Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Bigbooty), featured 80s king Peter Weller, and a young and handsome Jeff Goldblum in a cowboy costume. The film was done in a comic book style.
-MGM approached K.Smith because they heard a podcast where he was talking about watching the movie with Jeff Goldblum
-They wanted to unbury this movie and bring it to TV like they did with Fargo
-He wants to use the movie as the guide for Season 1, and do the sequel proposed in the end credits as season 2.
-He will begin shopping for additional backers in the near future.
-He wants to bring the whole cast in as potentially the bad guys, the original writer for more ideas
-Kevin wants to play Bigbooty.
Source Hollywood Babble-On Podcast starting at 12:12 minute mark to 19:30 minute mark. The rest is insufferable.
My weird young self loved this movie. I'm not thrilled it's Kevin Smith, and I wish it was Bryan Fuller who would fully embrace the weird and not push the irony to death. I was only made aware of this today when 80s princess Valley Girl/April Fool's Day star Deborah Foreman tweeted to KSmith that she wanted in!