TIME BANDITS: GETS TAIKA WAITITI AS DIRECTOR OF THE PILOT SHOW…

Culturedemandsgeeks loves nothing more than traveling the cosmos (especially through time) and stealing treasure.

So we are pleased to announce, New Zealand’s own Taika Waititi has come aboard the in-development Apple series to co-write and direct the pilot. The long-proposed TV series based on Terry Gilliam’s dark time-travel fantasy Time Bandits came last year, but until today, we are deliciously excited with the news.

Apple last summer made a deal for the rights to turn the 1981 fantasy into a TV series. Gilliam’s Time Bandits is a dark, irreverent adventure about imagination, bravery and the nature of our dreams. It follows the time-traveling adventures of an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin who, one night, stumbles on six dwarfs who emerge from his closet. They are former workers of the Supreme Being who have stolen a map that charts all the holes in the space-time fabric, using it to hop from one historical era to the next in order to steal riches. Throughout the movie, they meet various historical and fictional characters, including Napoleon Bonaparte and Robin Hood, while the Supreme Being simultaneously tries to catch up to them and retrieve the map.

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Waititi was recently tapped as a director for the upcoming Disney+’s upcoming Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. and his next feature film Jojo Rabbit, comes out this fall. His TV series credits include HBO’s Flight of the Conchords and FX’s upcoming What We Do In the Shadows.