More than 30 years after its creation, Dynasty continues to resonate with audiences. Following the trend set by the big screen remakes of series like Sex and the City, The A-Team, Charlie’s Angels, Starsky & Hutch and the planned 21 Jump Street film the writers Richard and Esther Shapiro are rebooting Dynasty as a new film franchise.
“The time is right,” said Esther Shapiro, co-creator of the series with her husband Richard. “Nostalgia has always been big, but we want to take it a step further. We want to go back to the beginning with these characters and use the film to trace their roots. We’re taking Blake Carrington back to his young manhood and when he met Alexis, and setting the movie in the Mad Men era of the 1960s. It will give us the opportunity to start fresh, without the constraints that television placed on our characters in the series.”
The script for the movie, which does not have a release date set, is currently being written by the Shapiro’s, with the intention of it being shot sometime over the next year.
Both Shapiro’s are quick to add that this will be a new take on Dynasty, with a nod to where the fans know each of the characters eventually wind up.
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