Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. McG's SPACED was doomed from day one. It would have had to have been phenomenal on top of hugely successful to shake any of the negativity surrounding it right now.

I don't lay all of that on McG's feet. From what I understand he always intended to include Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson in the process, but was advised against it in the early days of the option. If that's true, then it's a shame, but still... McG should have known better. That one little thing could have made the difference here. And from what I understand it took him over 6 months since the option to gather up the nuts to contact any of the original creators... strangely timed immediately after Moriarty's "Fuck McSpaced" article.

According to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, who has had a fantastic line on the business for years now, Fox has just turned down the pilot.

If it wasn't for Wright and Pegg's continuous statements on their displeasure for this project and the fan community surrounding them on it, would Fox have made this call? Who knows? I'd like to think it did, but not because Fox cares about fans (what they've done to their superhero and sci-fi franchises proves that), but because the series remake really is surrounded by a Pigpen-like black dust cloud of negativity.

Spaced was always made by fans for fans. That was the appeal of the show. Without the fan support I can see how unattractive the project looks.

What do you folks think?

PS Remember, producer Robert Green said this:

"i’m just so sick of all the bullshit coming out of simon and edgar’s camp directed towards McG, who has acted completely honorably all the way on this. that idiots on websites swallow that load without even having to wipe their chins surprises me not at all."

Nice. Well, maybe on the next one they'll give more of a shit about what the fans say and treat the creators of what they're trying to remake with a little more respect, no? Maybe I'm just an idiot wiping Simon and Edgar's cum off my face... (I would have included Jessica in that, but none of the remake producers ever did, so why start now?)