Reshoots Underway for the V Pilot, Including Ending

According to V’s producer and showrunner Scott Peters, reshoots are currently underway to “tweak” the V pilot that will premiere later this year. Though a finished copy of the pilot was already shown at Comic-Con last week, Peters says they’ve gone back to add more Visitor “tech” to the showdown that takes place at the end of the pilot between the Visitors and a group of human underground resistance fighters.

I have to admit, although I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with the ending of the pilot that was shown at Comic-Con, it did feel a little rushed, and the Visitors didn’t really feel like they were aliens from outer space in the way they waded into the battle.

Says Peters (to SciFiWire):

“We’re doing a little bit of reshooting for the fight, because we feel like we want to make the visitors even more formidable and even more awesome.

The original intent was that they would come in with silent weaponry. They wouldn’t be [here] with guns, and they wouldn’t be with lasers, because if they ever got captured or anything happened, they didn’t want a piece of alien technology laying around. They also didn’t want to draw attention. So they’re very adept at hand-to-hand combat, which all makes logical sense. The feeling was it lessened their ability to seem as formidable as they are. So we’re going to be adjusting that a little bit.

We actually do want to introduce a tiny little bit of Visitor tech that comes in. What we’re determined to do is introduce a little bit, a new piece of alien tech, Visitor tech, try to do it every episode. Certainly try to give a little bit of culture, peel back the onion of what their mandate is, what’s really behind it, what’s really going on, and just see the political stuff that goes on aboard the ship, just like we have political stuff underneath the ship.”

He also promises more visits to the Visitor’s ship, and that the show won’t necessarily feature a big action confrontation between the human resistance fighters and the Visitors in every episode. Peters also announces that Laura Vandervoort, who plays the comely Visitor-human liaison Lisa, has been promoted to show regular, so she’s definitely going to be sticking around.

The new V show premieres in November on ABC.