My Thoughts On The News Of A Worzel Gummidge Reboot

Now this is something that not alot of people know about me but I watched Worzel Gummidge growing up no i'm not that old I watched them on VHS so i'm old but not that old. So when I happened to read that the the BBC was looking into the possibility of doing a new adaptation of the books I was of course quite interested and then we got nothing for years and years that was until last week were we got news that the BBC was not making a new series instead rather two TV films and well instead of doing this post straight after finding out I thought i'd wait a week or so and let the news sink in before talking about it so here we go. 

First of I really do hope that they keep the films scary and I don't mean like they have to make them like a horror film but they have to at least scare kids. I say that because the first ever episode and several others episodes of the original 70's show are quite creepy and this isn't just the little kid inside of me saying that this is the fully adult me who got scared when watching one of the episodes a few years back , but tho I can very easily see them not making the films as scary or at least the first just because of when it might be aired which i'll get into later.

Along with the announcement of the films we also got the confirmation that the films will be starring , written by and for at least the first one directed by Mackenzie Crook. Again when the show was rumoured to be coming back a few years ago he was the only person attached to the role and when I read it back then I jumped for joy because he is the perfect person to play Worzel even if you look at a picture of him without any make up on he kind of looks like a scarecrow so it's only fitting that he plays the lead role.

As for the look of the character that one i'm still on the fence about and that was the only reason why I put of doing this post as soon as I found out because I wanted ,my thoughts on his look to be clear one way or other. Sadly tho that's not the case I will say that based of the image that was released by the BBC he looks pretty bad but that design might indeed work for this new version of the character so we'll have to wait and see but so far he looks more creepy then friendly and I think that both works for and against him and i'll go into why that is later.

I don't know if anybody reading this knows this or not but in the original 70's show Worzel had a love interest called Aunt Sally who in the books was his actual Aunt. So it makes me wonder which way they'll go with her character should she be introduced in the new films because they could go either way here so it really does depend on if there going introduce more elements from the books or if there just going by the 70's show.

As someone who grew up with the show i'd like it if they stuck with the series just because that's what I grew up with but i'd understand if they chose to go and adapt more things from the books. If they did go down the book route then it would mean that they could introduce Worzel's wife I forget what her name is but it would make this new reboot standout a bit and I dare say make it a bit more mature.

Now before I mentioned the look of the new character and how the new look makes the character look creepy it works for the character because the character is a scarecrow his job is to well scarecrows so making him look creepy does work in that regard. However he's also meant to appealing to kids and that's where the design doesn't quite work because he looks to scary but like I said before it might work in context with the new films.

Now there is a rumour that the first of these films will debut at Christmas i've read the entire press release and they don't mention when it will debut. The only thing they did confirm was that there's going to be two films and the first one will be sixty minuets long and that's all that was confirmed so if you here anything regarding a release date take it as a rumour unless it comes from the BBC themselves.

So there you have it guys that's my thoughts on the news of a Worzel reboot and you can bet i'll be reviewing both of these when they air and if you guys think this is a good idea I might review older episodes so let me know down below if that's something you'd be interested in seeing.