Interest in Xena script?

Posted by Ok_Space_8792@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 14 comments

Hello, I would not consider myself a Xenite or even a general Xena fan, though I did enjoy the show. My wife is, however. Long story short-- after she requested that we watch the entire series in 2020, I decided there needed to be a reboot. Think Game of Thrones but let them be gay.

It never crossed my mind to do something myself. But one day the first scene came to me and from there I taught myself screenwriting and then proceeded to create an entirely new world based off of Xena and even write a pilot. I am most of the way through the show bible, but the pilot itself is complete. Being that it's not my IP and that I'm not in the industry nor trying to be, it feels like a waste that nobody will see it. I figure this is probably the only space where I can share it and some people might find some enjoyment from it. Or y'all may hate it as you're the fans! Anywho, thought I would first ask to see if there would be any interest from y'all to see the script? Keep in mind that this is a reboot, so though I tried to call back Xena cannon, I did create a new world, with new lore.

If there's enough interest, I will post it.

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Ok_Space_8792@reddit (OP)

Thanks y’all. I am aware that it is called fanfic. I came here because I don’t have much interest posting it in a fanfic forum. Thought the Xena community might be interested. Solely because otherwise it will just sit mostly unread in my home. This is generally fine, but since it took me so long to write/create, I thought I’d test the waters here.

Flaky_Fix_6020@reddit

Half the people here have probably written stuff lol, and if everyone who did made a post to gauge interest we'd be inundated. I support your creative endeavors, but posting to a fanfic site is the way to go.

Okey dokie.

Latte-Catte@reddit

I would love to read it if you're willing to share.

I believe there was a planned reboot that got axed ten years ago, simply because Tapert jumped ship and quit right after a dude finished his first episode script. I'm not sure what was the internal dramas going on, but I can guess it was because Tapert was working on Evil Dead and couldn't spare his focus on any new project.

But the guy made a script that's akin to a dark Xena version of a reboot, something something about making Hercules a villain in this one. Which made some old fans mad, but imo, if they read the mythology Herakles was based on, Hercules was that villainess. It wasn't any new ideas 😅. My only nitpick was that the guy made Xena and Gabrielle lovers as early as episode 1, instead of the slow burn romance development we got to see in the original series. The entire script was like 100 pages long too.