Ben Stiller is set to direct and star, with Cate Blanchett, in a movie adaptation of the TV series, The Champions, an espionage thriller from the 1960s.
The movie will pay homage, which is another word for stealing, to the 60s TV show from Dennis Spooner. It follows three United Nations agents whose plane crashes in the Himalayas. They are then rescued by an advanced civilization secretly living in Tibet, which is a country near China*.
They are then granted enhanced intellectual and physical abilities. When the agents return to the outside world, they use their new superhuman abilities to become champions of law, order and justice.
I can’t say I’ve heard of it, but it sounds like fun. The original TV series ran for 30 episodes, between 1968 – 69, in the UK on...
