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Xena will be openly gay in new reboot

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’90s smash hit ‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ is in line for a brand new reboot and one of the top staffers on the show has dropped major hints that the new Xena will be out and proud.

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The original series was dripping with subtext, with repeated hints at a relationship between Lucy Lawless’ Xena and her flaxen-haired companion Gabrielle. This time around, it may not be so tongue-in-cheek.

Writer and producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who is currently working on the pilot of the new series, responded to a question about the death of a gay character on another series he works on (‘The 100’) and how that would shape his writing for ‘Xena’.

“I am a very different person with a very different world view than my employer on ‘The 100’ – and my work on ‘The 100’ was to use my skills to bring that vision to life,” Grillo-Marxuach wrote.

“‘Xena’ will be a very different show made for very different reasons. There is no reasons to bring back Xena if it is not there for the purpose of fully exploring a relationship that could only be shown subtextually in first-run syndication in the 1990s.”

“It will also express my view of the world – which is only further informed by what is happening right now – and is not too difficult to know what that is if you do some digging.”

 

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