Episode GuideSpace 2099
Episode GuideMany old TV series have been rebooted. Familiar titles will attract audiences, even if the concept is radically changed. Producer Gerry Anderson tried to reboot Thunderbirds through much of his post 1999 career, including Rescue 4 (1975), ThunderHawks (1977) and GFI (1993). It was rebooted several times without involvement by Gerry or Sylvia Anderson, as a Japanese anime series Thunderbirds 2086/Scientific Rescue Team Technoboyager in 1982, a cinema movie in 2004, and a CGI animation series Thunderbirds Are Go in 2015.
Gerry Anderson rebooted his 1966 series Captain Scarlet as New Captain Scarlet (2005).
Two of the reboots have taken the title Space 2099, and all were based in North America.
This is a proposal from Blur Studio, run by Tim Miller. Blur Studio produces SFX for games and film. Miller is best known as director of Deadpool (2016) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), and executive producer of the Sonic the Hedgehog films and sequels (2020-). He is also the creator of the animated series Love, Death & Robots (2019-).
Almost nothing is known about this proposal, apart from some concept artwork from Chuk Wojtkiewicz, Senior Concept Artist at Blur. This includes a heavily armed "Eagle gunship" and a storyboard "thumbs" sequence titled "Lone hero" in which an astronaut carries a huge laser gun across a surface of wreckage, "unburied war dead" and "shattered alien helmet", with many Eagles flying overhead.
Announced February 2012 by ITV, this is the only reboot to be supported and promoted by ITV; it was active until 2014 (more details)
It was produced by HDFILMS, with executive producer Jace Hall, who had previously produced another reboot series, V (2009-2011). It was unclear how closely the series would follow the original series, in particular if the Moon would travel through space.
This is the only known attempt at a continuation of the series, rather than a full re-imagining. It was based on Johnny Byrne scenarios raised in Message From Moonbase Alpha (1999) and supported by Christopher Penfold.
Among those involved were Eric Bernard (who had created re-edited versions of episodes in 2000) and Robert E Wood (author of several 1999 books). Production design was by Eric Chu, who had worked on the Battlestar Galactica reboot (2003-2009) and did Space: 1999 posters for Anderson Entertainment in 2014.
It was not pitched to ITV, as they replied "that door is firmly closed". This is probably soon after the Jace Hall project stopped, which would not have helped.
The proposal was a 2 hour pilot movie, with 13 episodes. Set 25 years after Message From Moonbase Alpha, the Moon would return to the planet Terra Alpha. Some of the Alphans, including a new generation who only knew the planet, would decide to leave on the Moon to continue the journey through space.
This proposal was produced by FutureDude Entertainment, with executive producer Jeffrey Morris. Morris would later produce a documentary The Eagle Obsession (2025).
This was a 10 45 minute episodes, with a continuing story. It is set in 1999, uses the same Eagle, Moonbase and set design as the original series, plus many character names. The Moon does not leave Earth orbit or encounter aliens. This is an alternative timeline in which space travel in 1999 is routine. Characters from a second timeline (2019, more advanced, but with a different history) crash-land on the Moon. The main conflict is political, between the US and Russian space programmes, which over the course of the series breaks out into full-scale war. The alternative timeline concept is similar to For All Mankind (2019), with the time travel element echoing many other science fiction stories.
A concept image shows actor Lance Reddick as Koenig. Reddick, best known for his role in the John Wick movies, had worked with Morris.