Fox’s long-planned “In Living Color” reboot appears to be dead.
“The bar for ‘In Living Color’ is so high that, if I didn’t feel like we could sustain that, then I did not want to move forward,” Keenen Ivory Wayans, the classic comedy’s creator, told The Post yesterday.
“I just feel like we’re in a different time,” he said.
“The talent pool is different, and I don’t think that type of show works nowadays. The level of talent required doesn’t exist.
“Not that this generation isn’t talented, but they’re just talented in a different way.”
“The stars just didn’t align,” Kevin Reilly, Fox’s president of entertainment, said. “I think the pilot [made last year] was pretty funny, but it just didn’t feel like we had the players.
“Also, it didn’t feel like a series prospect, and I didn’t want to just do a one-off special. It was a lot of things.”
The main problem was the network’s desire to create a new cast for the show even though members of the original cast — including Jim Carrey and Jamie Foxx, according to Wayans — were set to contribute.
“They were all aboard if I wanted them to do something on the show,” said Wayans.
“And the [new] cast was really good,” he added. “They were young and hungry . . . But the decision not to move forward was really about me saying, ‘Okay, but can we sustain?’
“I didn’t want one season and then realize I might have to start over again.”
Wayans, meanwhile, is set to make a rare guest appearance tonight on the TV Land sitcom “Happily Divorced,” starring Fran Drescher.
“They happened to catch me at a time where I had said, ‘I’m going to just say ‘yes’ to things,’ “ he said.
Wayans plays a former beau of Fran’s best friend, Judi (Tichina Arnold), on the show.
He hasn’t been on a sitcom without one of his famous siblings since appearing on a 1986 episode of “Benson.”