As one of the most memorable television shows of all time, Xena: Warrior Princess has an incredible cult following and now, the show is to receive a reboot with Javier Grillo-Marxuach writing.
Xena: Warrior Princess
Speaking about the show and how it may change recently, io9 report he said: "Even for someone like me (and I can't say that at the time 'feminism' was the first thing I looked for in my first run syndicated action-adventure-fantasy) it was clear that this was something different, and that it offered not just the thrills and sex appeal, but also a genuinely different and, frankly, enlightening relationship at its core. Xena helped a lot of people - myself included - finally embrace the potential of female-driven shows in the genre space."
Though he's a big fan of the original series, he does realise he's going to have to change a few things in order to attract a new audience as well as the older viewers.
"It's a delicate balancing act," he explains. "You want to please the fans of the old and attract a new audience, who maybe only know the name of the show, with a story that will draw them in, regardless of their frame of reference - and one of the things I really insisted on in my pitch was telling an epic story that would be bingeable - but still feature several of the legacy characters in a way that makes sense to the totality of the story. So in answer to your question, that's the one thing I REALLY wanted to mess with."
Despite that the most important parts of the show will remain canon.
"There are a few things that are sacrosant: the Chakram and the quarterstaff, of course, Gabrielle's ambition to become a bar, and - most importantly - that Xena and Gabrielle be soul mates."
No information on just when Xena: Warrior Princess will be coming back to the small screen has yet been given, but rest assured we'll let you know here at Female First as soon as we do.