Thread:SnowyMountain/@comment-30571613-20190917182018/@comment-24652145-20190918235043

I was under the impression that the 2017 Baywatch movie was a reboot of the 90s TV version. As far as I know, as I didn't actually see the film and just from reading the plot outline though; David Hasselhoff does appear in the 2017 film, he was listed as "the Mentor" and was Dwayne Johnson's former lifeguard instructor/superior or something ... and Johnson was the "Mitch Buchannon" of the film.

C.J. Parker was portrayed by Kelly Rohrbach in the 2017 film and simultaneously, Pamela Anderson appeared as "Casey Jean Parker" as a different role. They never bothered to explain and I get the feeling that this was an attempt to draw in old time fans by having their former stars pop in for the film. I would have renamed Rohrbach's character entirely to avoid the confusion but the studios might have felt the name recognition was too important.

I would simply create separate character pages for each; consider them as a new character with (Baywatch 2017) to differientiate between the original and the reboot characters. Consider rebooted characters to fall under the Other Versions section, not the Legacy Characters.

After all, a bunch of the characters of the 2017 film are new actors portraying old roles not just Stephanie Holden but Matthew Brody, Garner Ellerbee, Summer Quinn, and Don Thorpe were all from the original TV series too.

As far as the Sharknado connection; I'm pretty sure it was just an in-joke since David Hasselhoff has been coming out in the film series in a totally different role and not as "Mitch Buchannon". So, definitely create a separate character page for that.

I'd probably make a notation in the Character Trivia Section in the Baywatch and Sharknado versions as they wouldn't be an alternate version/reboot character or even a Legacy Character.