, a live-action/CGI hybrid created in the 1980s, sponsored by toy manufacturer Mattel and largely written by comics star J. Michael Straczynski, is heading back to television soon.While the original series was a half-hour, weekly kids’ show, the new iteration–titled Phoenix Rising–is being conceived as an hour-long drama aimed at an older audience, exploring the darker and more mature aspects of the original series’ mythology.The series, set in the years after mankind went to war with intelligent machines and lost, set Captain Jonathan Power against Lord Dread, a formerly-human man who was friends with Power’s father until the two of them came to blows over how to best deal with the seemingly-inevitable victory of the machines. Dread allowed himself to be subsumed by the enemy, while Power chose to soldier on and try to save humanity.
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