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LeoNatan
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 Posted: Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 21:46 Post subject: 12 Monkeys ['SyFy'] |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/12-monkeys-adaptation-series-order-590140
| Quote: | Original movie producers Chuck Roven and Richard Suckle are on board the project, which will be written by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett.
Syfy is continuing its push into the post-apocalyptic landscape.
The cable network, which previewed Ron Moore's Helix at Comic-Con, is adapting Terry Gilliam's 1995 feature 12 Monkeys, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The movie starred Bruce Willis as James Cole, a convicted criminal in a post-apocalyptic future where the Earth's population is forced to live underground after a deadly virus. In a bid to earn a pardon, Cole will use an imperfect science of time travel to help collect information on the virus released by the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
Feature film producers Chuck Roven and Richard Suckle from Atlas Entertainment -- one of the production companies on board the Universal film -- submitted the pitch, which is being eyed as a 90-minute backdoor pilot that would eventually lead to a straight-to-series order in a fashion similar to Syfy's Battlestar Galactica. Terry Matalas (Nikita, Terra Nova, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Travis Fickett (Nikita, Terra Nova) will pen the script, with 24's Jon Cassar on board to direct. "We have a great pilot, we're now flushing out what the rest of the series might be," Syfy president of original programming Mark Stern told The Hollywood Reporter.
Willis, Brad Pitt, Jon Seda and Madeleine Stowe starred in the feature, which earned Pitt an Oscar nomination for his supporting turn. The film grossed $168 million worldwide. For its part, the film was inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short La Jetee.
12 Monkeys comes as Syfy looks to beef up its original scripted fare following the successful launch of pricey drama Defiance. The network is looking to add five to six new original scripted projects for 2014 to join Helix, which also was picked up straight to series.
"We're looking at short orders, maybe eight to 10 [episodes] as opposed to 13," Stern said. "Some may be [split runs of] 10 and 10. Our goal is to do five or six original scripted series a year and a big tentpole event miniseries that could also possibly serve as a backdoor pilot to a series as well the way that Battlestar Galactica did. It's an exciting time for us."
"We're really trying to figure out what our next year is going to be," he added. "We have Helix in January, we're trying to figure out what our summer series is going to be. We have a lot of different options. We know that Defiance is going to come back in the summer, the last six episodes of Warehouse 13 are going to be back along with Defiance. Then there's this big gray zone after that of what follows. We definitely have a miniseries we want to try to do for December of 2014 -- Jamie Foxx's is a series of half-hours we might do for Halloween of 2014. We're looking to do a big four-hour miniseries -- a tentpole mini -- at the end of 2014 and we're trying to figure out what that's going to be."
"We have a half-dozen scripts that are all pretty amazing in their own way," Stern said of Syfy's development pipeline. "It's a return to our roots in terns of science-fiction: cool, interesting push-the-genre science fiction. Some we're looking at doing straight to series because you really want to give them the flexibility and do a closed-ended arced run. Some of them are going to be traditional pilots, then we'll decide and they may be a bit more episodic." |
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Saner
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| Posted: Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 23:04 Post subject: |
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Fuck me April has come around fast
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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Sin317
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| Posted: Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 23:37 Post subject: |
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"SyFy"
enough said ... just look at their last masterpiece .. defiance ... beurk ...
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Everything since they became Syfy has been shit to average :/ I expect zilch, hopefully I'll be surprised.
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WaldoJ
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| Posted: Mon, 22nd Jul 2013 23:58 Post subject: |
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sounds interesting. syfy has some talent there, but their current focus is making low budget b-movies that get press. They have had some real nice gems.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Jul 2013 03:11 Post subject: |
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Most of their shows feel cheap and amateurish which always puts me off..if this time they manage to gather some monies for the budget, it could be a good concept (with the producers on board). Hope they don't screw this up too much 
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If it's half as good as the movie I'll watch it. (The movie was dat good!)
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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