A series version of the David Cronenberg film “Scanners” is in development at HBO, Variety has confirmed.
Per the official description, the series is “set in the mind-bending world of David Cronenberg’s seminal film. Pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers, two women living on the fringes of modern society must learn to work together to topple a vast conspiracy determined to bring them to heel.”
William Bridges will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the series. Yann Demange will direct and executive produce via Wayward Films. Cronenberg, who wrote and directed the original film, will serve as an executive producer. Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer will executive produce on behalf of Media Res Studio. Meredith Duff and Sarah Sullivan of Wayward Films will also executive produce along with René Malo and Fanny-Laure Malo, Pierre David, Clark Peterson, and Aaron Gilbert. The show is a co-production between HBO,...
Per the official description, the series is “set in the mind-bending world of David Cronenberg’s seminal film. Pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers, two women living on the fringes of modern society must learn to work together to topple a vast conspiracy determined to bring them to heel.”
William Bridges will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner on the series. Yann Demange will direct and executive produce via Wayward Films. Cronenberg, who wrote and directed the original film, will serve as an executive producer. Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer will executive produce on behalf of Media Res Studio. Meredith Duff and Sarah Sullivan of Wayward Films will also executive produce along with René Malo and Fanny-Laure Malo, Pierre David, Clark Peterson, and Aaron Gilbert. The show is a co-production between HBO,...
- 9/21/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Variety reports that Universal will release an update of David Cronenberg's Videodrome—despite the fact that the original was a box-office flop for the studio upon its first release in 1983, only to subsequently become a cult classic. Ehren Kruger, who penned another video-themed horror redux, 2002's The Ring, as well as its sequel The Ring Two, has been set to script.
Kruger will also produce the new 'Drome with partner Daniel Bobker, and the trade reports that this version will—groan—"modernize the concept" of a pirate cable station devoted to sex and violence that can warp the minds and bodies of those who view it, "infuse it with the possibilities of nanotechnology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller." Cronenberg himself is not involved as of now, but René Malo, the Canadian distribution veteran who owned the rights to the original, is on board as an executive producer.
Kruger will also produce the new 'Drome with partner Daniel Bobker, and the trade reports that this version will—groan—"modernize the concept" of a pirate cable station devoted to sex and violence that can warp the minds and bodies of those who view it, "infuse it with the possibilities of nanotechnology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller." Cronenberg himself is not involved as of now, but René Malo, the Canadian distribution veteran who owned the rights to the original, is on board as an executive producer.
- 4/27/2009
- Fangoria
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