You are not logged in. Login or Register for free.
Title only?
Strange sound and vision from here to the end of the world.
"We're fans first, journalists second."






  5 comments
  Email this

  


Posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009 19:38:30 GMT by: agentorange
Posted under: tv news scifi dystopian

Variety is reporting some odd news today. It seems that Denis Leary’s production company, Apostle Films (Rescue Me) have bought the rights to turn one of our favorite scifi films, GATTACA, into a one-hour police procedural television drama.

The man in charge of pushing the pen is Gil Grant, who besides a few episodes of 24, doesn't have much experience as a showrunner.

I don't want to sound like a spoil sport or anything, but a GATTACA television show that's seen from the point of view of cops doesn't sit well with me. The world of GATTACA is dystopian, where the cops are the enforcers of outrageous discriminations based on genetics. They seek out "invalids" (or those people trying to pass as genetically superior) and essentially destroy them. Seems to me, the company has bought a sellable name rather than a story they intend to be true to.

Another thing to note, is just how few of these movie-to-tv projects actually seem to get past the pilot stage. I mean, whatever happened to that Children of Men tv show anyway?

RSS Feed for comments

Comments

Main character investigator will secretly be an invalid, or something happens to make him sympathize and aid invalids, or something like that. Seems obvious to me.

Posted by: rek | October 30, 2009 04:54:31 pm | permalink

There has to be 20 CSI type shows already out and I hate them all. I doubt this will fair any different. I would however like to see a sequel to Gattaca.

Posted by: uncleB | October 30, 2009 05:23:12 pm | permalink

Who cares what you think?

Posted by: Tom g | October 31, 2009 08:02:33 am | permalink

Then again, a long time back some guys thought it would be a good idea to make a TV series out of the movie "Total Recall," which didn't sound like it would be a good idea at all...and then it turned out that they had secretly made "Blade Runner: The TV Series" instead, and that worked out okay.

I mean, not SUCCESSFUL okay by TV standards, but okay enough to get a few seasons out. Making a show that owes only its title to a feature film doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.

Posted by: Anonymous | October 31, 2009 06:02:59 pm | permalink

I really despise all those CSI and Law and Order shows. I always thought 24 was flat out tasteless.

Posted by: Anonymous | November 1, 2009 09:37:59 am | permalink

Post a comment

Name:
(default is Anonymous)
Contact:
(email or url, optional)
Comment:
(no html or bbcode)
Captcha:



Related articles
Posted on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 21:46:10 GMT by: quietearth |   1 comment

Posted on Monday, November 10th, 2008 18:14:19 GMT by: agentorange |   0 comments

Posted on Monday, December 15th, 2008 18:31:18 GMT by: agentorange |   3 comments

Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 21:53:17 GMT by: agentorange |   2 comments

Posted on Friday, November 7th, 2008 19:32:59 GMT by: agentorange |   3 comments




rss | subscribe via email | the team | contact us | mobile
© 2006-2009 Don Neumann (except where applicable)
We are looking for free hosting with a cut of sales, you'll get a link right here.
If you want news of your film posted, use our contact page and we'll check it out
Permission is granted to use material from this site if you provide a reference to us via a link and DO NOT HOTLINK.


GenreBanners.com Banner Exchange