Oh, the pain! Parker Posey will play the sniveling stowaway on the Lost in Space remake series.
Never fear, Smith is here. Parker Posey will be playing the doctor, not space explorer, Dr. Smith on the Lost In Space remake series that is coming to Netflix in 2018.
Dr. Smith is the stowaway who changes the weight of the vessel and the trajectory of the Robinson family cruise.
Posey is known for her roles in such films as Josie and The Pussycats, Christopher Guest’s Mascot and Woody Allen’s Café Society.
The Lost in Space reboot is being produced by Legendary Television. The series will be written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who wrote the movies Dracula Untold and Last Witch Hunter. Zack Estrin from Prison Break will be the showrunner. Several episodes will be directed by Neil Marshall, from the production house Applebox, which is producing alongside Synthesis Entertainment’s Kevin Burns and Jon Jashni. Marshal helmed The Descent, Doomsday, and episodes of Game of Thrones and Hannibal.
For those who only remember when Gary Oldman lost his compass, the original 1965 TV series by Irwin Allen ran for three seasons. Loosely based on the Swiss Family Robinson, the series followed the Robinson family as they hurtled through the icy darkness of space after their unwitting and unwilling stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith, played by Jonathan Harris, sabotaged their navigation system.
The original CBS series was set in 1997. The Robinsons’ spaceship was called the Jupiter 2. But the breakout star of Lost in Space originated in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s classic science fiction film Forbidden Planet, the robot is a cousin to Robby the Robot, the clinking, clanking, caliginous godfather of C3PO and R2D2, who was voiced by Dick Tufeld. As any Rocky Horror Picture Show fan knows, Anne Francis starred in Forbidden Planet.
The 1998 feature reboot starred William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham and Mimi Rogers.
Here are the details we have on the rest of the cast...
Netflix Lost in Space Cast
The Space Family Robinson were settlers, not explorers.
When Maureen Robinson was a little girl, she had a very special friend name Mr. Noodles who lived in her teddy bear. Now she's all grown up and lives in a tin can hurling through the stars with her family. They are on a mission, not to explore strange new worlds, but to settle one. Molly Parker (House of Cards) will play Maureen Robinson, the mom on Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode Lost In Space series remake.
Maureen Robinson was played by June Lockhart in the Irwin Allen series. The character is being described as a “fearless and brilliant aerospace engineer.” The dad, astrophysicist John Robinson who leads the expedition, will be played by Toby Stephens (Black Sails).
Maxwell Jenkins will play Will, the youngest Robinson child, played by Billy Mumy in the original series. Judy Robinson,
John and Maureen’s oldest child, will be played by Falling Skies actress Taylor Russell. Judy was played by Marta Kristen in the 1960s. Judy Robinson was played by Heather Graham in the 1998 Lost in Space feature film.Russell played Lark Voorhies in Lifetime network’s Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story and appeared in the series Strange Empire (2014). Russel also appeared in the film Dead of Night.
“The original series so deftly captured both drama and comedy, and that made it very appealing to a broad audience,” Netflix vice president of original content Cindy Holland said in a statement. “The current creative team’s reimagining of the series for Netflix is sure to appeal to both fans who fondly remember the original and to create a new generation of enthusiasts around the world.”
