Almost 50 years after its broadcast, the cult detective series “Starsky and Hutch” could soon be making a comeback on television in a new all-female version.
Starsky & Hutch, the cult series of the 70s, could soon make its big comeback on television in a female version. According to information from DeadlineFox is said to be working on a new version which this time will be worn by a female cast.
This modern reinterpretation of the series starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul will follow two female detectives, Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson. The duo will solve crimes in the town of Desert City, and try to find out who sent their fathers to prison for a crime they did not commit 15 years ago.
Sam Sklaver, who notably worked on Prodigal Son and Elizabeth Peterson, screenwriter on the medical series The Resident, will be the authors and showrunners of this new iteration. For the moment, the identity of the two actresses who will camp Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson has not yet been revealed.
Created by William Blinn and produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, the original series, broadcast on ABC between 1975 to 1979 – and in France between 1978 and 1984 on TF1 -, was centered on two detectives, David Michael Starsky (played by Paul Michael Glaser ) and Kenneth Richard “Hutch” Hutchinson (David Soul).
Together, they cruised the streets of the fictional town of Bay City, California in their red, white-striped Gran Torino and solved cases with the help of Huggy “Hot Tips” (Antonio Fargas).
In 2004, the police series had already been the subject of a remake at the cinema. Directed by Todd Phillips (Joker), this new version of Starsky and Hutch was led by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.