Max Headroom, The Strange Pre-Internet AI Phenomenon, Is Getting Rebooted

Grab your floppy discs, crank the Duran Duran, and crack open some ice cold New Coke. Max Headroom, the perplexing fictional character played by Matt Frewer in a variety of television forms, is coming back, as per an announcement in Deadline. Halt and Catch Fire co-creator Christopher Cantwell, working with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah’s company SpectreVision, will bring the series to AMC. While a reboot of an old “oh, I know that!” IP can often lead to rolled eyes, anyone who has seen a SpectreVision project knows this group comes correct. (Stream Mandy or, better yet, The Greasy Strangler,… Read Full Article