Oct 10 2008'V: Final Battle' Ends Up Not Being Final Battle

Remember V, that miniseries from the '80s where human-like aliens come to earth and seem friendly enough until they start ripping their faces off to reveal that they're horrible lizard things, and also Beastmaster is there? Well, someone at ABC also recalls it, and recently said, "Hey, we should probably remake that." Another familiar turd in the bowl. From Variety:

"V," the 1980s miniseries about alien lizards visiting Earth, will invade primetime once again.

ABC is developing a new adaptation of the franchise — which spawned a second mini and TV spinoff — written by "The 4400" co-creator/exec producer Scott Peters.

Peters is set to exec produce, along with HDFilms principal Jace Hall.

Hall, the former head of Warner Bros.’ videogame division who has worked on titles including "F.E.A.R.," will help expand "V" into other platforms, including gaming.

It might be slightly less shocking when the aliens rip off their faces this go round, since we all now know that they're alien lizards who are going to tear their faces off, so here's what I'm thinking to keep things interesting: a second layer of face peel-off! Like in the original, we see the aliens' skin come off, and we're all, "Whoa, hold the phone. You guys aren't human at all. You're horrible lizard things." And they're like, "Whoops. OK, so we're a race of horrible lizard things. Still, though, we're peaceful." So we say, "OK, fine, let's move on." Only then they tear off the lizard faces too, revealing they were really lizard skeletons. At that point we're finally like, "I'm sorry, but that's too much. Let the Final Battle begin, V."