‘Blake’s 7’ Reboot In The Works From ‘The Last Of Us’ Director Peter Hoar & ‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ Exec Matthew Bouch

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• Hoar, who directed the critically-acclaimed “Long, Long Time” ep of HBO’s The Last of Us, plans to direct the Blake’s 7 reboot, which will go out to buyers soon.
• Bouch would “love it to go to the BBC” and will likely seek co-pro funding from the American streamers and European players like RTL.
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• The show, which exhibited numerous tropes of the traditional space opera, followed the exploits of political dissident Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), who leads a small group of rebels against the forces of the totalitarian Terran Federation that rules the Earth and many colonized planets.