NEW CAPTAIN SCARLET SERIES ANNOUNCED
17/3/03: Anderson Entertainment have just announced that production has commenced at Pinewood Studios on a new multi-million pound television series of Captain Scarlet.
Producer Gerry Anderson has been given the green light to produce a new 26 part series based on the characters and concepts of his original 1967 Supermarionation science-fiction adventure series, following the indestructible Captain Scarlet and the agents of Spectrum as they battle against the alien Mysterons from Mars.
“This is the most exciting project of my career,” says Gerry Anderson. “It is something that I have been working towards for several years and I am thrilled that we are going into production.”
Following on from Anderson’s earlier Supermarionation and Supermacromation filming techniques, the new Captain Scarlet series will be made in HYPERMARIONATION, a sophisticated form of computer animation.
“This means that the series will be made using Computer Generated Images,” says Anderson. “When I worked with puppets, I strived to make them as believable as possible. Now I can achieve this using Hypermarionation.”
The dateline for the Anderson Entertainment production is still 2068 (as in the original series), but in keeping with the changing times, female Spectrum agents will be joining the front-line battle against the Mysterons. Anderson is also promising that the characters in the new Captain Scarlet series will be less clinical than in the original programme.
“We are keeping the faces of the key characters, but we are re-designing the uniforms, developing totally new vehicles and Cloud Base will be bigger and better,” Anderson explains.
Top Supermarionation series director David Lane is heading the new team of directors on Captain Scarlet. Formerly one of the editors on Fireball XL5 and Stingray, Lane made his directorial debut on Thunderbirds and went on to direct the feature films Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), produced Joe 90 and The Secret Service and later worked with Anderson on UFO, The Protectors and Space:1999.
The associate producer of Captain Scarlet is Mark Sherwood, who previously worked with Anderson as post production supervisor on Space Precinct.
The new series follows a successful experimental test film featuring CGI animated characters made in 1999. Behind the scenes, downthetubes sources suggest Carlton has spent an estimated £5 million on various tests for new Gerry Anderson shows to date, including Captain Scarlet and his most popular show, Thunderbirds.
Aimed at a family audience, the 26 episodes will take two years to make and will be screened in 2005. Gerry Anderson exclusively reveals further details of the new Captain Scarlet series in the latest issue of the Fanderson club magazine FAB, which is currently scheduled to be mailed to members on 31st March 2003.
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