Original ‘Starsky & Hutch’ Star David Soul Wants in on Reboot With Co-Star Paul Michael Glaser
thewrap.comTHR, would focus on two female detectives called Sasha Starsky and Nicole Hutchinson who solve crimes while trying to find out who framed their fathers for a crime they didn’t commit and sent them to prison.Every article mentions the ‘original’ actors by name.
So why not just reboot Paul and me—as a couple of old farts solving piddly-ass crimes at the assisted living facility where we would now live?
Who can do Starsky and Hutch better than him and me?No decisions would be made before the scripts come in, but it sounds like Soul and Glaser, who are both 79 now, could be written in as their original characters.
In 2018, Glaser said a reboot might work if it wasn’t trying to recreate the ’70s setting. “Starsky and Hutch,’ like most iconic shows, belongs to a time and a period and you won’t be able to recreate that time or period, so you’re left with realizing a chemistry between two people.
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