FOX has announced plans to develop a modern ‘reimagining’ of famed 1970s cop series “Starsky & Hutch” which will gender-swap the lead roles and follows two female detectives – Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson.
In the series, the new Starsky and Hutch solve crimes in the offbeat town of Desert City while staying true to their friendship and somehow also trying to unravel the mystery behind who sent both their fathers to prison fifteen years ago for a crime they didn’t commit.
William Blinn created the original series, which ran from 1975-79 on ABC and starred David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser in the title roles, and the pair drove a cherry-red Ford Gran Torino with a white stripe. Antonio Fargas’ informant character Huggy Bear also became a signature element of the series.
Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment are producing the project which is being developed on a script-to-series model – meaning should the scripts be approved, it will skip a pilot and go directly to series.
Sam Sklaver (“Prodigal Son”) and Elizabeth Peterson (“The Resident”) are serving as writers/showrunners on the project with two scripts expected to be delivered before Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn makes a decision on whether to go to series.
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Snoop Dogg starred in a 2004 feature film based on the property. The new series joins several other shows in the works at FOX right now including Barbie Kligman’s “Doc” and Marc Cherry’s “Jenny Is a Weapon”.
Source: THR
