The Champions tv series to be remade as film

"Cult British science fiction TV series The Champions is to be re-made for the big screen."

...from the BBC.

Not more unoriginal remakes I hear you cry. But wait, the writer and director is to be Guillermo del Toro, which suddenly makes everything sound much more hopeful.

Here's the setup:

The Champions were agents whose lives were saved by an advanced civilisation when their plane crashed in the Himalayas. The civilization also bestowed them with superhuman abilities, including the ability to communicate over long distances by mental telepathy and the ability to foresee events.