The big picture
- Sam, Clover and Alex return in a live-action version of Totally Spies, battling supervillains and navigating college life.
- Will Ferrell's Gloria Sanchez Productions highlights themes of female empowerment in the upcoming co-production with Amazon and Banijay Kids & Family.
- The reboot of the long-running animated series will bring back the trio of superspies with a focus on empowerment and friendship.
Get ready to WOOHP. With its return of a long-running animated series and imminent seventh season, very late Totally spies is making the jump to live action. Will Ferrell is producing a live-action remake of the action-comedy series about a trio of teenage superspies. Variety reports that Amazon MGM Studios has the reboot in the works.
The YA series will focus on the show's central trio of Sam, Clover, and Alex as they juggle their first year of college with their glamorous adventures fighting strange supervillains. It will be a co-production between Amazon and Banijay Kids & Family, the latter of which is the French production company that first released it. Totally spies more than twenty years ago. The series will be produced by Ferrell's Gloria Sanchez Productions, a production company founded to highlight stories starring women; his previous productions include Booksmart, Hustlersi may december. Says president Glòria Sánchez Jessica Elbaum“Gloria Sanchez was originally founded to tell stories about complicated characters and empower female voices and storytellers. As longtime fans of the animated show, we couldn't think of a story more suited to our ethos. The themes of girl power , never sacrificing friendship, fun, or your true self to succeed resonated with us then and feels ripe to revisit now.”
What is 'Totally Spies'?
A co-production between Canada and France, Totally Spies premiered in 2002 on ABY Family, then moved to Cartoon Network. It centers around three teenagers in Beverly Hills, California, who moonlight as jumpsuit-wearing superspies; cool headed sam (Jennifer Hale), the distracted clover (Andrea Taylor), and good-hearted Alex (Katie Leighand later Katie Griffin). All three are members of the WOOHP (World Organization for Human Protection), a spy organization led by the crusty British spymaster Jerry (Jess Harnell), and travel the world fighting strange villains, even as they battle their arrogant rival Mandy (Hale) in their civilian lives. The series ended in 2015 after six seasons and over 150 episodes; also spawned a theatrical prequel film and a spin-off series, The amazing Spiez, which ran for two seasons. Last year, a seventh season was announced that continued the series (albeit without the original voice cast). It has already aired in France and will be released in North America later this year. It has already been renewed for an eighth season.
Ferrell and Elbaum will executive produce the series through Gloria Sanchez Productions, as will Alix Taylor. CEO of Banijay Kids & Family Benoît Di Sabatino will also executive produce the series.
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Amazon's live action Totally spies The reboot has yet to set a creative team or a release date. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
