Lee Majors and the late Nichelle Nichols will be featured in a science-fiction pilot that Manhattan Beach producers said Wednesday is being created entirely through generative artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
\u201cManhattan Transfer,\u201d based on a novel by John E. Stith, is in production at Skyrocket Studios and is intended as a pilot for a potential television series, according to the producers.<\/p>\n
Majors, 87, will play Matt Sheehan and will be presented as a younger visual version of himself through generative AI and authorized digital recreation, producers said.<\/p>\n
Majors became a television star in the title role of \u201cThe Six Million Dollar Man\u201d and later played stuntman Colt Seavers in \u201cThe Fall Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nichols, known worldwide for portraying Lt. Uhura in \u201cStar Trek,\u201d is credited as Nova Taylor, a world-renowned astrophysicist. Her son and executor of her estate, Kyle Johnson, said Nichols had discussed the role with series creator Sky Conway before her death.<\/p>\n
\u201cYears before my mom passed away, Sky talked with her about having a significant role in Manhattan Transfer,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cShe loved John Stith\u2019s book and was genuinely excited about being part of the series.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nichols died July 30, 2022, at age 89 in Silver City, New Mexico.<\/p>\n
The project was created, produced, co-written and directed by Conway and is being made by Skyrocket Studios in Manhattan Beach and the Manhattan Transfer Film Fund.<\/p>\n
The story begins after Manhattan is severed from Earth, placed under a dome and taken aboard an alien mothership containing thousands of other domed cities, producers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate enough to play some pretty memorable characters over the years, but Matt Sheehan is something different,\u201d Majors said. \u201cManhattan Transfer has a great science-fiction premise, but underneath all of that is a very human story.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cast also includes Herbert Jefferson Jr., Jason Faunt and Chalet Brannan.<\/p>\n
The pilot is more than one-third complete, according to the producers, who said they plan to offer it to television networks, streaming platforms and distributors after it is finished in about three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Majors and the late Nichelle Nichols will be featured in a science-fiction pilot that Manhattan Beach producers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[14474,76049,61701,134305,75,84,83,9,24,63,70194,108085],"class_list":["post-361600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-beach","tag-create","tag-featuring","tag-majors","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pilot","tag-producers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}