Shane Black is rebooting The Avengers (no, the other ones)
We might now have an idea of what Nice Guys and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black will be up to once he’s done reshaping the Predator series. Speaking with The Dark Side magazine (as relayed by Screen Rant), Black’s longtime writing partner Fred Dekker recently mentioned that the duo have scripted a TV reboot of The Avengers for Warner Bros. No, not those Avengers: Dekker is talking about the cult-classic British spy show, whose best known secret agents were Patrick Macnee as the Bowler-wearing John Steed and Diana Rigg as the iconic Emma Peel. “It’s The Avengers, with John Steed and Emma Peel,” Dekker said, according to Screen Rant. “We’re setting it in Britain in the ’60s, and our approach is The Ipcress File meets Doctor Who. At this moment, it’s my favorite thing we’re working on.”