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Why Original V Star Marc Singer Thinks The Time Is Right For The Remake..

Marc Singer, who played reporter, and our ” Hero,” Mike Donovan in V: The Original Mini – Series through to the last episode of V: The Series, told SCI FI Wire that he would love a chance to take part in ABC’s upcoming re – imagined series, which is slated to debut after January 2010..

SCI FI Wire: For someone who was a major part of the original series in all its forms, I’m dying to know what you think of V returning to television..

Marc Singer: I think a good story can always be retold, and I think it is a good story. I think its relevance is as powerful today as it was then. The same forces of subversion and the same sort of fascist tendencies are afoot, and I think it’s a cautionary tale that bears retelling.

Marc

SFW: Everyone who watched the original show knows the ending.. Do you think it can work even with that knowledge?

MS: Well, I do … I don’t know if they will keep the original ending or perhaps modify it.. I think it’s more in the telling of the tale of society being subverted.. And society being wooed into channels that are disruptive and dumbed down.. I believe that those are the ways in which the story’s retelling sort of supersedes that plot line, because it’s the human interaction.. It’s the failings and dangers of our own nature that lie at the heart of this story..

SFW:Last time I spoke to Robert Englund [ Who played Willie in the original series ], he said he’d like to do a cameo in the new series.. Would you be interested in doing one?

MS: Oh, sure.. I think it would be fun to do a cameo.. I think it would be fun to do more than a cameo and see where that leads us.. The nice thing about a program like V is that it’s open to all sorts of add – ons and interpretations.. The possibilities are definitely there.. I am certainly an admirer and friend of Kenneth Johnson, so it’s possible that that sort of thing might actually occur..