Apple May Turn Fantasy 80s Movie 'Time Bandits' Into a TV Series

[MacRumors]

Apple is close to securing a deal for the rights to turn 1980s fantasy movie "Time Bandits" into a TV series, reports Deadline.

Directed by Terry Gilliam, "Time Bandits" featured the story of an imaginative 11-year-old boy, Kevin, who gets sucked into a fantastical adventure with a band of dwarves during the Napoleonic Wars in Italy.

Kevin and the dwarves travel through time using a magical map, visiting places like ancient Greece and the Titanic and fighting off an evil being intent on stealing the map for his own purposes.

The original film starred John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Kenny Baker, David Warner, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond, Jim Broadbent, and others.

According to Deadline, the new TV series based on the movie will be a co-production between Anonymous Content, Paramount Television, and Media Rights Capital. Gilliam is set to serve as a non-writing executive producer.

If Apple secures the rights to the "Time Bandits" TV spinoff, it will join the other more than a dozen television shows Apple has in the works, which span genres from drama to comedy to shows for children.

In other related news, comedy writer Regina Hicks has signed on to be a co-showrunner for Apple's upcoming animated television show "Central Park" alongside Loren Bouchard and Josh Gad.

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[ignatius345]

Oh god, don't ruin Time Bandits. That movie is great.

 

[Breaking Good]

I saw Time Bandits in the theater when it was released. I very much enjoyed the movie, but it does not need to be remade. It certainly should not be remade into TV series.

It was an endearing movie, but very much a one-shot deal.

 

[Centris 650]

Maybe we will get to see a pink bunkadoo!

 

[Tapiture]

It’s “Time Bandits” but it takes place in the back of James Corden’s Range Rover!

 

[dugbug]

Oh god please do this

 

[rillrill]

So long as Gilliam is in the mix. Apple, bring us a shrubbery too!

 

[Lek]

It's evil! Don't touch it!

 

[AvisDeene]

Next thing they’re going to ruin is The Goonies.

 

[hsoj1006]

Next thing they’re going to ruin is The Goonies.

How is making a spin-off TV series ruining a movie that already exists?

 

[iapplelove]

Lack if writing ideas, so someone says hey let’s make a remake of this and let’s remake that...

 

[EdT]

I saw Time Bandits in the theater when it was released. I very much enjoyed the movie, but it does not need to be remade. It certainly should not be remade into TV series.

It was an endearing movie, but very much a one-shot deal.

They can’t ruin the movie, but that doesn’t mean the TV show will be any good.

 

[jephrey]

Love Time Bandits. I bet it could become a good show, like any show, if done "right".

 

[scottinlexky]

how about Apple pick up Colony and keep that series going.

 

[fairuz]

Never heard of this movie, but now I'm going to watch it. Looks great.

 

[hsoj1006]

Lack if writing ideas, so someone says hey let’s make a remake of this and let’s remake that...

It doesn't work like that. It isn't that simple.

 

[MarkB786]

This might be the only Apple production to date that I might be interested in. Has potential. Could get me to plug my Apple TV back in.

 

[buddhistMonkey]

I'm usually loath to see a great film turned into a television show, but I think Time Bandits has the potential to make for an awesome series, and the plot possibilities are endless. I hope they keep the same dark, satiric timbre that made the movie so funny and smart. Fingers crossed.

 

[sracer]

I'm usually loathe to see a great film turned into a television show, but I think Time Bandits has the potential to make for an awesome series, and the plot possibilities are endless. I hope they keep the same dark, satiric timbre that made the movie so funny and smart. Fingers crossed.

No. Just no.

There is absolutely no reason to call this series “Time Bandits”. Just make a generic time traveling series featuring little persons and have at it. Time Bandits is part of a trilogy and needs to be left alone.

 

[Attirex]

I need fruit!

(MR's millennial staff is just confused--wonders if this refers to an Adele song or artisanal self-driving celery)

 

[dugbug]

No. Just no.

There is absolutely no reason to call this series “Time Bandits”. Just make a generic time traveling series featuring little persons and have at it. Time Bandits is part of a trilogy and needs to be left alone.

Shees relax and enjoy the ride

 

[guerro]

That's it? Apple has just given up on producing any kind of original content?

 

[sracer]

Shees relax and enjoy the ride

I'm relaxed. There's simply nothing to "enjoy" from a cynical money-grab.

 

[Breaking Good]

Time Bandits is part of a trilogy and needs to be left alone.

Huh?! What’s the trilogy? This is the first I’ve heard of Time Bandits being part of a trilogy?

 

[sracer]

Huh?! What’s the trilogy? This is the first I’ve heard of Time Bandits being part of a trilogy?

It is the (edit to change middle to first) first segment of Terry Gilliam's "Three Ages of Man" trilogy, consisting of Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen