"Gulliver’s Travels" Contemporary TV Remake in Works

Jonathan Swift’s classic satirical adventure "Gulliver’s Travel" is getting a contemporary reimagining for the small screen.

Emmy and BAFTA-winning writer Tom Bidwell (“Watership Down”) has created and written a six-part TV series — entitled “The Gullivers” — and is working alongside producers Xavier Marchand and Casey Herbert for Moonriver TV and Leo Becker for Federation Studios.

The fantasy adventure series is in development with a major European broadcaster, according to the producers, and follows on the heels of Moonriver’s recent series “Nautilus,” inspired by Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea,” currently on Amazon Prime in the U.K., Stan in Australia and France 2 and awaiting rollout by AMC in the U.S. Federation is no stranger to Verne’s universe either, having previously adapted “Around the World in 80 Days” for Masterpiece PBS, BBC and the European Alliance.

Bidwell’s take on the story is described as being told: “through the eyes of Gulliver’s 21st-century wife and children as they embark together on a lifesaving mission.”

“The Gullivers” is a co-production between Moonriver TV (“Nautilus”, “A Gentleman in Moscow,” “Mrs Harris Goes to Paris”) and Federation Studios (“The Agency,” “The Bureau” and “Around the World in Eighty Days”) with Bidwell creating and writing the series.