Donaldson, Tabori helmed the SyFy Channel’s “mockbuster” of Cowboys vs. (In another Star Wars twist: the 1998 version also starred mainstay U.S Television actor Kristoffer Tabori as John the Savage, who later provided voice work on several Star Wars video games. The poor reviews are attributed to its script being a greatly abridged version that was “loosely based” on Huxley’s concepts and not a straight adaptation of the novel. Their second, previous version released in 1998 as an 87-minute telefilm starring Peter Gallagher ( While You Were Sleeping, NBC-TV’s Law and Order: SVU) and Leonard Nimoy ( Star Trek, Baffled!) was derided by critics and sci-fi fans as being “bland” and “boring” and inferior to the 1980 version.

As of September 2019, the currently in-production series is slated to air on the conglomerate’s recently launched online streaming service, Peacock. Initially developed for NBC-TV’s SyFy Channel imprint in 2015, the production moved to NBC’s USA Network division. Set to premiere in 2020, the Universal co-production with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, unlike Universal’s first two TV movie productions, is being produced as a weekly series.

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