
It appears there will be no movie made of the cult classic and longish running, campy-as-hell series
Xena: Warrior Princess. The relationship between Xena and Gabrielle was long rumored and insinuated to be more than just friends and partners in justice.
From
The Torch Online (thanks to @
AfterEllen):
Rob Tapert, the co-creator of television’s Xena: Warrior Princess, has given up hope that there will ever be a live-action feature film version of the classic show, at least not any time soon or starring series leads Lucy Lawless and Renee O’Connor.
“It’s something that just won’t happen,” Tapert told TheTorchOnline.com in an exclusive interview. “I don’t think it’s going to happen for Lucy and Renee. In twenty years or ten years, in some amount of years, like McGyver, like Charlie’s Angels, it [could] happen like that [with other actresses].”
I'm a not-so-closeted
Xena fan, and I used to watch the reruns late at night in college (though I prefered
Hercules, with Kevin Sorbo's hot body, but
Xena provided a lot of juicy men for you to watch... and, for the women folk out there, seriously -- isn't Lucy Lawless gorgeous?).
It is, indeed, a sad day for Hollywood, especially, as one commentator points out, movies can be made of much shorter run and less popular shows like
Reno 911.