Blake's 7: AVON (Reboot Trailer)

[@petervandenbosch6353]

Best SF serie ever made. Now i'm 54 years old and i still watch once a year all episodes when i'm on vacation.

[@braxxian]

Glad you like it.

[@karagibson7534]

Me 😆

[@antpearson9676]

Couldn't agree with you more

[@davidbernards]

I hear you but you can keep the final episode! lol

[@vortexspinner4470]

This definitely need's to be remade, continued or rebooted. But please for the love of god don't let it anywhere near the assholes producing the latest Doctor Who series. For once draw inspiration from the Blake's 7 fan base. You won't be sorry, and won't go wrong. .😉👍👍👍👽

[@citizenerased7746]

If they fuck up a Blake’s 7 reboot I’m starting a riot, seriously. They have to recreate the bond between the main characters, and the actors HAVE to be believable. If done right a re boot could be a smash hit. If done wrong you’re offending hundreds of thousands of hard core fans

[@LUXXY1984]

You hit the nail right on the head mate, when you said they would have to make the acting believable and all the crew would have to have the same connection as the old school crew.

[@SteveInScotland]

The original was amazing, I watched it from episode one as it aired and I’ve stuck by it for 45 years but life goes on, things change, evolve, decay and can be reborn. It’s time to reimagine Blake’s 7, keep its soul and either move on or start again. We all love who and what has been but what can be could be so much more! I love Blake’s 7 and I don’t want to see it die with me, it’s too good for that!

[@xr6lad]

No. Never ever make a remake. In the current climate it would be a total disaster. Look how they have ruined Star Wars and Dr Who - a box ticking mess that have both lost their way.

[@thedad7313]

RIP Paul Darrow.

[@jeremyjasiak]

A show that sorely needs a remake, let's hope one day it'll be real.

[@EditsandStuff350]

Hopefully!

[@BenVaserlan]

Highly likely the current BBC would mess it up with their various activisms.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Yes, but not in this woke era. They will only seek to "repurpose" the show for "the message".

[@thefurrybastard1964]

The way the media, especially the BBC is now, it'd be nothing more than a woke agenda pushing pile of garbage.

[@benjaminsidneykidd-bentley3966]

No I hope never. You cannot ever replace the actors or the lovely wobbly sets or crap clothes, for once leave it be!

[@leokimvideo]

WAKE UP NETFLIX, these's a great Sci Fi to be re-told.

[@judeh8160]

The BBC hold the rights to it, not Netflix

[@SpikeXtreme]

@@judeh8160 Thank goodness

[@judeh8160]

@@SpikeXtreme Agreed. And anyway, Big Finish are doing a perfect job with the Blake's 7 audio dramas.

[@kreigrastalovich2577]

Stay the eff away from it, for the love of god, you've screwed up so many other classics.

[@SamuraiQuester]

This really is superb. Perfect, breakneck frenetic pace for a modern rebook, whilst retaining the genuine darkness of the vision of The Federation of the original series.

[@EditsandStuff350]

Thank you!

[@captainpoppleton]

@@EditsandStuff350 The new logo is really good.

[@victorsteerup4582]

The characters in Blakes 7 did not like each other, only stuck together out of a common threat, the Federation is trying to kill them. My favorite scene is where Avon is alone on the Liberator, something Blake had not allowed, knowing Avon would bolt. He is going to, but is told by ORAC he cannot defend against 3 Fed scout ships. You see him go insane and laugh, as he realizes he has to call the rest of the crew back.

[@greggarvin2663]

You got a thumbs up the moment Intergalactic Space Crusaders started playing

[@mrjosediaz]

I just imagined Avon ducking in the final scene and the Federation troopers surrounding him all firing at each other. So Avon still lives. Don't forget Orac is alive too.

[@SpikeXtreme]

Orac survived to be a time-traveled Oric-1 ... with a slighty, dodgy power supply

[@tranz2deep]

For years after that ending, Avon Ducked was a meme before the term was even coined.

[@wirralnomad]

I always imagined that, which is why he smiled as he did.

[@nannasallynelson3990]

fantastic trailer I'd watch this for sure

[@voxxclamantis9668]

You had me going, pretty awsome, now convince the Sci fi channel to bank on it. It must happen, it will happen, it has already happened, Blake 7 lives!

[@HippieDalek]

You had me at that first tease of "Intergalactic Space Crusaders" \m/

[@SciFiAssasin]

That was fun!

[@EditsandStuff350]

Thank you! I'm working on more Blake's 7 stuff so keep an eye out if you're interested!

[@michaeljw3602]

So wish this was true.. criminally underappreciated classic series.. they redid doctor who.. come on reboot or remake..

[@kyleashley]

Wow.. that was frikin sweeeeet!!! great job!

[@christopherclarke3022]

It Would be interesting to see a remake and to see what and how the story lines would proceed.

[@eldowning]

We can only hope!

[@andrewparkin4036]

I'd watch that! But then I like anything Sci-Fi. If they do a continuation rather than reboot I think it'd be better. Pick up after the season 4 ending, according to the late Terry Nation both Villa and Avon were meant to have survived if he'd done a follow up series, an official book I read once that I believe was cannon had both those characters surviving as it was set after the show and they had Orac with them. Can't remember what happened in the end of that though but I believe they lived to fight another day. A continuation could have Avon missing ultimately turning up dead. Servelan could be in exile for all her failures, Orac being searched for and if anyone was to survive it'd be Villa. A young small group of dissatisfied citizens learning of Blake's cause and seeking out secretly the truth stumble across Villa who has to brag about his time with Blake, inadvertently becoming their inspiration to fight against the oppressive Federation......

[@SesameR7sh]

I'd have Avon survive but captured. Vila and Tarrant escape. They retrieve Orac, and steal another ship, finding out that the pilot is Jenna. (Frightened by Blake's paranoia, Jenna let him believe she was dead). They eventually discover Avon is alive. At first they join a rebel group Jenna's been flirting with. Avon gets to hear of it and waits for rescue, yet it never comes, because they keep putting it off, especially when they break from the rebel group and start working with Amagons and Terra Nostra, focusing on building first wealth and then a power base. They start to become as feared as Amagons themselves. Tarrant keeps saying he will rescue Avon, but he doesn't actually want to: now he is a solid villain, the man in charge and Jenna's lover to boot. Embittered at being abandoned, Avon stops fighting the torturers and starts working with Servalan. But what does he really want? Vila is terrified of Tarrant and Jenna and the world he now inhabits. He is forced to stop drinking as it impaired his skills and he nearly got them all caught. His mind is brighter without liquor. Will Vila rescue Avon? Or will Tarrant kill him? What about Jenna? Will Avon kill Tarrant and rape and kill Jenna? Bleak enough?

[@wirralnomad]

@@SesameR7sh I would have it so that Orac whilst on the Liberator was able to get all of the schematics for the Liberator and has any survivors commission a whole new DSV (DSV3?) or a smaller derivative of it which is called Liberator II, also Orac would have downloaded a copy of Zen into its data banks which it could then upload to the Liberator II's new onboard computer system, hell, I would actually go as far as to suggest that Orac having been captured by the Federation willingly supplies the Federation with the schematics so that the Federation can build one as a fully functioning prototype which Orac is then placed onboard as the guidance system and whilst on trials Orac fools the Federation crew into teleporting (on a minor mission) whereupon Orac then pilots the Liberator II itself and heads out on multiple courses to different last known locations with the intention of picking up any surviving members of the crew that it secretly communicated with informing them to remain at their respective locations until it could complete "it's mission (to have the Federation build a new Liberator) and collect them"! Add in some of your suggestions and BINGO! Their first mission back on a fully functioning DSV could be to a) infiltrate the base that built Liberator II to wipe out all schematics that the Federation has of Liberator so that they cannot build copies and b) to then destroy the base that built Liberator II along with the unfinished DSV's that they had under construction. Could they bring back Travis? They could clone him and install a behavioural chip in his brain which has an explosive so that they can control him more, as for Blake? Well who knows, the Blake that we all saw die may just have been his clone that we saw in Series 2 of Episode 3 "Weapon" and so the real Blake could actually be out there somewhere, or maybe they find Blake's clone and he takes the place of the original Blake where only the crew know it's not the real Blake and creating a belief that Blake actually survived? There are so very many possibilities available here we could literally go anywhere with this storyline....

[@BulgyBoar]

Wonderful trailer, but Blake's Seven without Paul Darrow as Avon? (Shakes head)... not for me, thanks.

[@redsidebiker]

Unfortunately, Paul and Jaqueline (amongst others) have passed away. I say let the historic series live and be remembered as it is. Liberator is the best looking Starship, ever

[@realhorrorshow8547]

They would have to get both Avon and Servalan right. Cool idea though.

[@uxsanctuary890]

B7 had all of the great dark dystopian grit that today's SF stories try to have. It had complex anti-heros and storylines. It challenged your moral compass decades before Dexter was even conceived and it had the best spaceship design ever made - the Liberator (please DO NOT destroy the Liberator again). It did all this 40 years ago, well ahead of its time. If they're going to bring it back they HAVE to be very careful to integrate the original B7 universe into a modern day version. Paul Darrow is a terrible loss to the show and to a remake. Avon needs to be included somehow. The characters need to be true to the grit and personalities they had, not become politically correct Hollywood stereotypes. But it could be the best remake ever made if they do it right. I can't believe no one has picked it up and remade it - I mean they're starting to scrape the bottom of the Marvel barrel so...

[@braxxian]

Best to just leave it alone. Today’s world would just screw it up like they do everything else.

[@johngoodsell6641]

Liberator was a production line ship of 'THE SYSTEM' 'DS Class' ( DS=deep space ? )...others like it DO exist in the Blakes 7 world, so any survivors if the finales shoot out simply need to get in to System space & STEAL ONE !...LIBERATOR II

[@wirralnomad]

That's just it, there were no good guys in Blake's 7, there were bad guys against evil guys, "better the Devil you know than the Devil you don't"!

[@Zenconfirmed]

The Liberator was a huge ship it certainly wouldn’t jig about like a fighter shown here. Scorpio was a wanderer class planet hopper again not a fighting ship. No Paul Darrow this is dead in the water.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

A bit all over the place with everything _including_ the kitchen sink thrown in, but for a fan made piece, not bad. B7 would definitely do well as a reboot. Take a look at what rebooting (well, sort of) did for Doctor Who, for example.

[@GKProductionsEcht]

2 Guys watching old SciFi movies on KZbin..... Guy 1: 'Someone should make a remake of 'Blake's 7.' E.T.; 'Here, hold my beer......'

[@EditsandStuff350]

You're welcome! I've got a few Blake's 7 videos on my channel - I'm working on doing at least something with it. It's such a good show.

[@the7valleys]

Clips from every science fiction show in the last 5 decades squeezed into a 3 minute video

[@macsnafu]

Frankly, I think any Blake's 7 reboot at this point would necessarily change what the show was. It might indeed be a good show, but it wouldn't capture that low-budget magic. It would have to find its own way, like the Battlestar Galactica reboot.

[@waltonsimons12]

I think a BSG-style "reimagining" is precisely how a Blake's 7 reboot should be done. Take the basic premise and then let it become its own thing, rather than slavishly following the canon of the original.

[@janreznak881]

Imagine a BBC reboot in 2022: Blake would be a white male - but a homosexual. And the leader in name only. More interested in the massive wardrobe the Liberator carries, but is needed as the "leader" as the Federation is ruled by a patriarchy (despite the President being a "woman"). Avon, the real leader, would be a sassy black woman. Villa, a teenage white girl genius who has escaped from her abusive father. Avon will become her mentor. Jenna, a beautiful blonde, expert pilot and lesbian. In a relationship with: Cally, a telepath of Indian extraction. Gan, a huge black man. As strong, smart and loyal as they come. Zen, the computer, voiced by an old white man. Not a very smart computer, often ridiculed and completely outmatched by: Orac - an android, played by a Pakistani male. Servalan - Federation President. A beautiful white transgendered woman. Trying to make the Federation a better place, but being constantly thwarted by the Patriarchy. Eventually will team with Avon to "liberate" the Federation to usher in a new era of peace, prosperity, unicorns and rainbows. Travis - also a white male. But evil, stupid, ugly and cowardly. Treats the Mutoids as slaves (who are played by black actors exclusively). Gets his just rewards when the Mutoids finally take their rightful place as the backbone of the Federation, and lynch him. I think that's everybody. Not being hyperbolic by the way. Well, maybe a little. Nah, not really.

[@waltonsimons12]

You're looking at it all wrong. What's important in Blake's 7 is not the race, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual/romantic orientation of the characters. It's the personalities of those characters, and the way those personalities bounce off each other. It doesn't matter if Blake is white or Indian, only that he is an idealist who grows increasingly fanatical over time. It doesn't matter if Vila is a teenage girl, a middle-aged man, or an elderly non-binary person. It only matters that he's a coward and a petty criminal. It doesn't matter if Avon is straight or gay or pansexual, only that he is cynical, pragmatic, and highly intelligent. You get the idea. The characters and their interactions were a large part of what made B7 special, not their races or genders or age or whatever. So forget about insisting that a reboot match the races and genders of the originals. Just keep the characters' personalities the same, and then hire the actors who can best portray those personalities, regardless of race or gender. (Or orientation or anything else.) Then hire writers who can put those characters into situations where their mismatched goals and personalities cause conflict, and top it all off with modern production values. Voila! You've just created a successful reboot! By the way, I nominate Asia Kate Dillon to play Servalan. They look like they were BORN for the role. 😉

[@KiljiArslan]

Love the use of Ayreon’s song at the end.

[@hopebgood]

If it doesn't have a fucking Marvel superhero in it....I'm all for it!

[@stunny3]

sequel of Blake's 7, would be as disastrous, as the sequels of the original StarWars

[@evertonporter7887]

The only person I'd trust with a Blake's 7 remake would be Tony Gilroy, the man who gave us Andor.

[@waltonsimons12]

@@evertonporter7887 Not sure he's the ONLY person I'd trust, but that would definitely be a solid choice. Andor was AMAZING, and it shows that Gilroy has the ability to portray the sort of dystopia that is the Federation in Blake's 7.

[@CosmoShidan]

It would be great if the series had a continuation, with the grand-nibblings of Roj Blake and Kerr Avon leading the charge imho.

[@jackwilbers]

Love the original show and hoping for a reboot. Great to hear "Intergalactic Space Crusader" by Ayreon.

[@nickgreen4731]

I recognised that too! Technically Star One, but who's counting... :-D

[@bb001a]

They ruined Star Wars, Dr Who and Star Trek all my favorites. I'd prefer they left Blakes 7 to RIP.

[@evertonporter7887]

We already have a remake of Blake's 7. It's called Rogue One and Andor.

[@andreww4473]

If only! 🙏

[@venzybierxski7672]

That's a 2020 remake of the classic

[@richpelling3013]

This could have been amazing!

[@GMDetails]

Fan Fucking Tastic !!! Make It So!!, oh shit , wrong show 🤣

[@the7valleys]

Perhaps a sequel. Avon escaped had a son and the son picks up the action after his father's death? Maybe Christopher Eccleston could play that part?

[@mrb.5610]

Stuff Dr Who. Bring back Blake's 7.

[@xhagast]

Sigh. Name ONE remake even as good as the original? Lets enjoy the original and hope for better times. NOT for a remake.

[@MTBenVoorMvML]

I want it!

[@Damonpuss]

Fantastic, haha. If it ever happens it's gotta be British, and it's gotta be dark.

[@waltonsimons12]

Agreed about the darkness. B7 was about as dark as TV could legally get at the time. A modern B7 could portray evils that were only hinted at in the original. I actually disagree about it needing to be British. I can't really articulate why, but to me, it just doesn't seem to be connected to "British-ness" in the same way as, say, Doctor Who or James Bond.

[@Damonpuss]

@@waltonsimons12 That's a fair opinion; if one were to distil the story down to its bones it could be reimagined, though I do find it quaintly British nevertheless. There's a 'properness' that runs through everything, which I'd hate to see Hollywood, for example, completely obliterate as they do with everything they attempt to 'improve'.

[@waltonsimons12]

@@Damonpuss You have a point about that "properness;" I hadn't really considered that until just now. Perhaps B7 is more British than I gave it credit for, and I simply didn't recognize it because I'm not British myself.

[@Damonpuss]

@@waltonsimons12 Neither am I, but Iooking back at early British SciFi I'm always struck by the good English and manners, even the villains are awfully civilised really 😂

[@stephenevans6070]

let's hope that if it rebooted they dont gender/race swap characters, make all of the men look like idiots that have to be saved by a strong female diverse character and that they don't try and insert modern pronoun politics

[@ntal5859]

I am all for a reboot but not this style... it has to be done in the 70's style, gritty, callus, and hammed up like Blake and Avon did it. Look at Corba Kia they keep the vibe of the 80s and people love the totally incorrect political correctness of Johnny.

[@poisonousmarrownexsusgamin1804]

ill have a watch and see if i like it or not.

[@Drenov]

I love B7 but I hope they don't remake is as every reboot they make these days is garbage.

[@J4Z666]

Just watched S1E1 for the first time in 43 years - Can't find E2 :( Which led me here and it cheered me up though - I'd watch it. Agree with some of the comments Star Wars reboot is shot and so is female Who but think Trek movies are ok - a few dodgy tv spin offs though. Nice trailer thanks.

[@SesameR7sh]

It's been taken down. I believe it's on Forces TV in UK

[@J4Z666]

@@SesameR7sh Thanks Fiona - I managed to find it on Brit Box, watched a load of episodes then life got in the way and not got back to it yet, HNY.

[@waltonsimons12]

Give "Strange New Worlds" a try; it's a return to form for the Trek franchise. You should also consider watching Season 4 of "Discovery"; it's some of the best Trek ever to hit the screen, and I WILL die on that hill. 🙂"Lower Decks" is good too, although it's aimed at hardcore Trek fans and not a general audience.

[@thedavecorp]

I Wish.

[@robertpatrick3350]

Only if they get Matthew Rhys to play Blake or a descendant……

[@emetcole333]

Don’t u see this is George Orwell’s future come true☠️☠️☠️

[@stuartnelson431]

Ahh,,,,if only,,,

[@spartan.falbion2761]

I am happy we were spared from the 'new Who' woke reboot of Blake's 7.

[@lyreamoonchild2024]

Wish it was real

[@davidlindsay131]

Doo wiit! Doooooo wiiiiiit!

[@xr6lad]

No. Never ever make a remake. In the current climate it would be a total disaster. Look how they have ruined Star Wars and Dr Who - a box ticking mess that have both lost their way.

[@marleypumpkin4917]

Why do they fcuk up classics? Because they have no imagination.

[@JafarCalley]

This would be awesome as long as the cancer of 2020s gender bending established characters and token woke memes, gender and LGBT issues etc... Real world politics doesn't belong in SciFi.

[@hopebgood]

Spoken like a true member of the fascist Terran Federation.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Needs a reboot...but only after the woke madness has ended. It needs to be good, not representation.

[@meljen8592]

It can be reborn,but leave the woke shit at home please.

[@davidswift9120]

Sorry, but the CG spacecraft and matte paintings are embarrassing. This is the area where you could have really excelled on a low budget. I work in visual effects as a matte painter. If there's anything I know, it's this. I really love Blake's 7 and know what you really could have done. This display is amateurish and you could have done a lot better. I'd waited so long for this and can't tell you how much I'm disappointed. Who's behind it? Who's to blame? I want names. The Battlestar Galactica reboot 20 years ago was a lot better than this is visually.

[@EditsandStuff350]

Hi David, I'm an editor, if I'm anything, I'm not a VFX artist at all, beyond video tricks, rotoscoping, and that sort of thing. I can't animate things, there's an old Blake's 7 video somewhere on my channel with even worse CGI that I did myself. For this, I took the ship videos from Big Finish Audio trailers, which don't have the highest budget. I suppose they are to blame for the VFX and I am to blame for using it! If you want to do some Blake's 7 VFX I'd be happy to work with you though!

[@davidswift9120]

@@EditsandStuff350 I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have said what I said. I regretted it later. In fact I don't know if it was an official BBC thing. I guess that is because I grew up with Blakes' 7, I was hoping something good would be made of a reboot. I'm not hiding behind my comments and I'm not a troller. If I'm to break the vfx down though, the models were great. The animation is just spacecraft, so no change needed there. I guess it would be down to the texturing and in particular, the lighting. I'm no expert in that as I'm just a matte painter, but I work very closely with people in the vfx world. Thank you for replying. Let me say though that if you did the effects for this off your own bat, then you deserve credit. I wasn't thinking properly when I posted my comment. I was out of order. If I may ask, is this really a serious Blakes' 7 reboot? I do good matte paintings if I can help. www.swift-art.net . Once again, I deeply apologise for my unthoughtful comments.

[@EditsandStuff350]

@@davidswift9120 Don't worry. I'm flattered that you thought it was official! Sorry if I wasn't clear in my response though, they're not my animations, I know they're not that good but there's not much Blake's 7 stuff as you'd expect. I got most of it from here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4rLlWuLpthpmbc I'm not serious in rebooting it, though if we could get enough interested fans together to make something I'd love to be involved in it. I've been trying (slowly) to make a scene or two by editing interview footage and the like of the late Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce seen here (it's very rough at the moment, but coming along): kzbin.info/www/bejne/ammVi2x_iL13Zrc I don't think the BBC will ever reboot it, the last fan stuff I saw was from years ago now, I reckon that there would be enough interested people out there who love the show to do something cool though, just doubt we'd ever get organised enough! So I'd be serious if I could find more people to be involved in doing some sort of short film or whatever!

[@davidswift9120]

@@EditsandStuff350 I would do matte paintings for free if it's for a pitch for a new Blakes' 7 series.

[@davidswift9120]

@@EditsandStuff350 I'm on board if you think it could happen. I'm sorry that I spoke my mind in the way that I did. I'm here to help if you need.