ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: There's another remake for us to talk about, Fox's American redux of your sitcom Spaced [which he co-created with costar Jessica Stevenson]. You've expressed your frustration at not being contacted by anyone involved in the show. [It will be produced by Granada America, Warner Bros. TV, and McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision.] Have you heard from anyone yet?
SIMON PEGG: There was an attempt [but] the damage is completely done.... What they have professed is they were such big fans of the show. Well, if they were, they would've found us straightaway. I'm sure Robert Rodriguez called Frank Miller
at his house the second he decided to adapt
Sin City. To go ahead and actually write the script without even consulting us — particularly when every reference, every joke comes from something very personal to us — it just drives me up the wall. I saw the front page of the script and it said: ''
Spaced by Adam Barr.'' And I just thought,
Spaced isn't by Adam Barr.
Spaced is by Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson. It also said: ''Based on the BBC series.'' It was never on the f---in' BBC, so it just shows how much they've done their research.... I just feel like creative people should stick together and be in touch with each other.... I don't want the
Spaced remake to take place, because I don't particularly think there's any point to it, but if someone was gonna write something
in the spirit of it, and take on our mission statement, then I would have no objection. But
Spaced was written for very specific reasons, by specific people, and to see it as a commodity that can be bought up as just some sort of high concept format is galling to me. [
Editor's note: Warner Bros. and Barr, a veteran American-TV writer and producer who won an Emmy on Will & Grace
, had no comment. Granada and McG had not commented by press time.]
Your Spaced will finally be released on DVD in the U.S. in July, right?
Nearly 10 years after it came out in the U.K. We've just been in the studio here in L.A. We had Matt Stone, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, and Diablo Cody do commentaries on it. We've got new artwork, some amazing quotes from some amazing people. I think, basically, they kind of underestimated the wrong fan base.
i have specail dvds now 
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