ABC may be working to bring back Charlie's Angels to the small screen, but another show from that network is now headng to the big screen.

Dynasty, the hit 80's TV show which starred Joan Collins, John Forsythe and Linda Evans, is being developed into a motion picture. Show creators Richard and Esther Shapiro and working on the script.

"The time is right. Nostalgia has always been big, but we want to take it a step further," Esther teased. "We want to go back to the beginning with these characters and use the film to trace their roots. We're taking Blake Carrington (John) back to his young manhood and when he met Alexis (Joan), and setting the movie in the Mad Men era of the 1960s. It will give us the opportunity to start fresh, without the constraints that television placed on our characters in the series."

Richard is confident the series would work well as a film.

"In a way, these characters were prisoners in television. We were always constrained by the smaller budget of a TV series, and all the standards and practices that governed the content of the show," he explained.

"In the movie, if we want to have some James Bond-style action, we can afford to do that. If we want to have a steamy love scene, we can do that. If we want to go a few steps beyond what they would allow on 1980s TV, we can move ahead those few steps, and then some."