Stargate and Sanctuary producer to adapt the movie franhcise for the small screen

FremantleMedia has announced that it is rebooting Universal Soldier as a TV series with Stargate and Sanctuary executive producer 🔯Damian Kindler in the c🍒reative driving seat.

David Ellender, Global CEO of FremantleMedia Enterprises, says: “ Universal Soldier is FME’s first foray into the sci-fi action genre, further diversifying our growing drama portfolio and underlining our reputation as one of the industry’s leading developers, co-producers and distributorಞs of globally popular, high-quality ไscripted content.”

Allen Shapiro and Craig Baumgarten, who will executive produce the series, say: “We’ve long wanted to come up with a bold new way of updating Universal Soldier.* We’re thrilled to team up with FremantleMedia and are sure that the millions of fans who loved♒ the movie will☂ now welcome it into their living rooms.”

Shapiro is Chairman of TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com, which are part of a joint venture of Lionsgate. He was also a Founder and President of Mosaic Media Group, a talent management, production and investment company. He previously served as President / CEO of The IndieProd Company, which produced numerous films and TV shows, including Universal Soldier, Air America , Blue Streak , L.A. Story and Roxanne . Baumgarten is an independent producer, whose films include Hook , Shattered Glass , The Order , Never Back Down and Universal Soldier .

At the moment, Fremantle is lookin💎g for interﷺnational buyers for the series.

(* We think by this they mean cheap, and not starring Jean-Cl🦩aude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren… which may not be a bad thing.)