The cable net announced today that it’s developing a pilot about a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race.
Production is set to begin in November on the script from Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (Terra Nova, Nikita). The pilot is cast contingent — meaning, if they can’t find actors to fill the roles originally played by the likes of Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt »
I don't think this is going to work considering Terra Nova episodes seem thin on plot (I always miss the beginning and none of the dialogue, which there is a lot of, seems to have much to it) and Nikita is not on Freeview so I haven't seen it but has a cheap cash-in look and feel to it from the trailer I saw, nothing like the original TV series or the film it was based on. Plus I don't think the film 12 Monkeys has enough story to fill a series; I did find that it could do with being more drawn out, maybe a quadrilogy or trilogy; but a TV series is too long for it and it would get boring fast. How are they going to fill out the story? Not with soap opera melodrama bullshit like many TV series are full of these days, I hope.
