The worldwide success in the 90s of the syndicated television series Xena: Warrior Princess, a mythological fantasy show about a female warrior on a road to redemption followed by her faithful companion Gabrielle, has led NBC to look at launching a reboot of the dynamic Greek duo for primetime.
NBC has ordered a pilot from The 100 screenwriter Javier Grillo-Marxuach. Many wonder if the new show will keep the lesbian subtext of the original or let the lead characters be out and proud, but according to Grillo-Marxuach, we can expect that closet door to be kicked down.
He wrote on Tumblr, “Xena will be a very different show made for very different reasons. There is no reason to bring back Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s.”
