‘The Wonder Years’ Reimagining in the Works from Lee Daniels, Fred Savage to Produce
The Wonder Years reimagining is in the works at ABC, Us Weekly has learned.The network has picked up a pilot for the half-hour comedy, produced by 20th Century Fox, which will focus on a middle-class Black family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the turbulent late 1960s — the same era as the original series — and how they “made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too.”Empire cocreator and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels will serve as Executive Producer, along with writer and producer Saladin Patterson and producer Marc Velez. Fred Savage, who starred in the original hit sitcom, will also executive produce and direct.