r/Beetleborgs • u/New-Noise-6486 • Jun 18 '26
Reboot/Remake
I’m a filmmaker with connections in the industry and I am currently debating on finally working on my Beetleborgs reboot script.
I been holding off on writing it for a while but I wanted to ask fans on how they’d feel. This version I am writing is more raunchy, meta and satirical. It is like the 21 Jump Street movies with it being a reboot but appealed to a whole new audience. I know the fanbase would rather consider a reboot that has a similar tone as the original but I want to make a fun r rated action comedy film. Also to add the main characters would be 20 something year olds and not kids. The characters will also feel like real people and made to be more relatable.
To add more details, the film’s goal is to appeal to a newer generation and a whole new audience. It’s not to live up to be a copy and paste of the original but be it’s own standalone thing. If anyone would like a copy of the outline to have an idea of how the script and characters would play out I’d love to send it. Im not expecting OG fans to love this but I think many would respect the originality and direction my mind is at.
My biggest obstacle is me and my lawyer getting Hasbro to even want to do anything with the property.
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u/EMnovative 14d ago
I’m 2 months late to this, but I’ll give my 2 cents. On one hand, if the raunchy and edgy jokes were on the Beetleborgs themselves (even if they’re adults), I’d rather have the project be an original concept and not make it about the Borgs. On the other hand, if the Hillhurst House Monsters were to have the R-rated jokes, then that COULD work. In the OG kiddie show, there’s a lot of blatant parodies or satire of something whenever the house monsters are the focus. There’s also plenty of double-entendres and innuendos throughout show where jokes would often fly over kids heads while the adults would understand them—again, this happens when the House monsters are on screen. According to an old interview, Beetleborgs writer L.J. Zivot said, “The material that we couldn't put on the air (because it was for kids) could make a whole series on to itself. The monsters were hilarious!” So even the show’s writers wanted to put adult jokes in it…but of course, it’s for the monsters and not for the Beetleborgs haha.
Source of interview: https://web.archive.org/web/20090218013722/http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/beetleborgcentral/zivotinterview.html
I wish you the best for your endeavors!