You know what they need to do to really sell people who are on the fence? Just go ahead and do a quick little 5-10 minute short to give people an idea of what the reboot's gonna be like.
That's precisely the sort of thing that would make me bite.
There are plenty of remarkably talented people out there that could carry the torch, but I want to know that they are going to be remarkably talented and funny people before getting invested in this thing.