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"There's great TV around but a lot of it is
really depressing," Stephens told Reuters at the series premiere
in Los Angeles ahead of its Friday release.
"What's great about this show is that it's very aspirational.
... it also has this positive message about family and humanity,
which I think we need at the moment," said the British actor
best known for playing a James Bond villain in 2002's "Die
Another Day."
Stephens plays family patriarch John Robinson, commander of the
spaceship Jupiter 2, which crashes on an unknown planet light
years away from Earth.
The year is 2046 and the Robinson family and other Jupiter 2
passengers encounter an alien environment.
Like the 1965 series, "Lost in Space" is based loosely on Johann
David Wyss' 1812 adventure novel "The Swiss Family Robinson."
The series also keeps the popular catchphrase "Danger, Will
Robinson," the robot warning given to the youngest of the
Robinson clan.
The 10-episode first season reworks some characters' back
stories and family relationships and the scheming Dr. Smith is
now a woman, played by Parker Posey.
"There is definitely a different dynamic," said Mina Sundwall,
who plays daughter Penny Robinson. "We're very complicated,
we're very messy. You see marriage problems between John and
(wife) Maureen.
"We're also a mixed family and we have (sister) Judy from
another marriage of Maureen's, which I think brings another ...
dynamic between them," Sundwall said.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross Writing by Eric Kelsey Editing by Peter
Cooney)
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