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There's Gonna Be A PUSH TV Series!?
Merrick here...
David Hayter, writer of the first two X-MEN films, the WATCHMEN movie, and the voice of Solid Snake in the METAL GEAR games, is putting together a series based on the recent feature film PUSH. Coincidentally, I've got the Netflixed Blu-Ray of this on top of a pile that's waiting to be watched.
The series will purportedly be an extension of the science-fiction thriller, centered on people with paranormal powers who band together to take down a corrupt government agency.
[EDIT]
Screenwriter David Hayter, who penned "Watchmen" and two of the "X-Men" movies, will script the series pilot. E1 and Dark Hero Studios, co-owned by Hayter and producing partner Benedict Carver, will jointly produce the series based on the screenplay created by David Bourla for Summit.
...says THR HERE.
The film, which was released in early 2009, starred Djimon Hounsou, Dakaota Fanning, and Chris Evans & was directed by Paul McGuigan (LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN, WICKER PARK). Several other high-profile films are currently being eyed for series adaptation, including CHILDREN OF MEN from GALACTICA's David Eick (is this still in the wind?) and Gil Grant's reworking of GATTACA.
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[EDIT]
Screenwriter David Hayter, who penned "Watchmen" and two of the "X-Men" movies, will script the series pilot. E1 and Dark Hero Studios, co-owned by Hayter and producing partner Benedict Carver, will jointly produce the series based on the screenplay created by David Bourla for Summit.
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SNAAAAKKEEE!!!!!
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Film looked horrid, and no I won't bother to watch this shit
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It was called Heroes and it didn't work out too well.
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Just Jumper re-written even worse with nothing but cack and plotholes filling the gaps between action sequences.
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It was called Mutant X and it didn't work out too well.
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INTO SHOWS, it will only sully the GREATNESS that both are! Now, PUSH as a TV show sounds cool.The movie wasn't great, but it was somewhat cool(thew powers didn't seem soo exagerrated or unreal),SO TO CONTINUE ON AS A SHOW-IS EXCELLENT.
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Fox Americanizing Torchwood... ...
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Hollywood get some new ideas.
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A TV show based on a movie that was total garbage. Where do I sign?Having said that, It worked for Stargate.
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...that emberassing open letter in which he begged everybody to see "Wachmen", after it didn't made as much as expected at the Box Office?
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isnt it about time someone finally make the show that all these others are based on?
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alot of other movies that would make better series. I'd love to see a live action Ghostbusters series. Let the movies be about the originals, then run a series with 'the next gen' that the studios seem to want with a franchise branch elsewhere in the country. There's enough background mythology to build a fantastic series, and every once in a while have one of the originals guest star.
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Push was just too unlikable.
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Jan 19, 2010 2:34:57 PM CST
So it's not about the heavy set African American girl?
by jaylenotookmyjob
Because that'd probably be a better show than this Heroes knockoff.
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Didn't even make it to the end. I tried but I figure when you're 2/3 of the way through a movie and couldn't give two shits how it finishes then why waste another 40 minutes?
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For a moment I thought this was a reference to the 2002 series from Ben Affleck and Sean Bailey. That was a fun, stylish little show which never got it's due.
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But I think you're kidding yourself if you don't think Gattaca could make a pretty sweet series. I'd watch a show that took place in that universe. If done right, imagined correctly, it could be seriously awesome sci-fi tv.
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God damn director thought he was Paul Greengrass or Stephen Soderberg, but he wasn't near their level. This sounds to close to Mutant X or even Sanctuary to make it to series.
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I think that you misspelled "Wild Cards" or "Squadron Supreme"
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somebody had to say it
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Throw enough shit at the wall and something is bound to stick eventually.
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Now that his run on Dr Who is over, Russell Davies is in talks to develop a US version of Torchwood that deals with more global threats rather than just those on the British Isles - John "Captain Jack" Barrowman is very likely to return in the new version.
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Certainly not the worst sci fi movie every made, was an acceptable time killer.
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Trash movie, but it might make a good tv show.
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So, anything is possible. Hopefully now we'll get a good show about people with super powers because that definitely is not Heroes.
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The movie played like a 2 hour season opener of a tv show. They can definitely do the special effects on a tv budget. This will be a good fit for tv. I'll even watch it.
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Not great, but not shit. I'd give the pilot a go.
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and I'll watch it. I liked the movie, but it suffered from being a Part 1 story. Still, waaaaay more enjoyable than X-men 3. It's what Heroes should have been.
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John Barrowman seems as if he might be too campy for American tastes. I like him well enough, but he comes across as Barbie's gay friend Andé.
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Not terribly original premise, but the global locales, and Memento-esque take on defeating precognition was interesting. Has promise as a series, methinks.
Especially any of you who actually LIKED Transformers 1 OR 2.
If so, your whining is henceforth INVALID.
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Agreed. Love the movie so much, I'll watch anything based in that world. There were a lot of hints in the movie about this future (six fingered musicians, extensive space program, wired matchmaking booths etc.). If done right, with the theme of human spirit vs. genetics, I would watch the shit out of that series.
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They should call it APUSH and it can be Advanced Placement United States History.
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with a side helping of meh
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I agree with this. As long as it doesn't devolve like Heroes did.
Dakota was great and I liked the world they made in the film.
sign me up. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATt_jYt3_AY
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Jan 19, 2010 5:30:29 PM CST
"a US version of Torchwood that deals with more global threats"
by scratchmonkey
I wonder how many characters in this version will end up being terminally bisexual horndogs who are about as likeable as the average rapist?
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and all stories of the paranormal are utter crap.
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...if you didn't expect too much from it; and I actually think this has some potential...I will look forward to it.
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I was personally surprised by it, I liked Jumper as well, since people compared the two, but Push had more variety to it. We definitely need something more watchable than Heroes which is just shit now.
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I think JUMPER was a better movie than PUSH too. PUSH had stronger lead actors, but since they won't be in a TV show, that leaves the mythology, which was tangled and convoluted. But I'd look forward to either film's TV incarnation.
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but with the right creative team (with at least one person on hand with a strong sense of logic and organization), it has a good chance of working as a TV show. The universe is certainly uncomplicated enough to do whatever they want with it. Though if they get an incompetent idiot like Kring running things or choose to make it a drawn out drama/snooze fest then they should save everyone's time and drop it now.
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It could happen. No idea how execu-fucked the Push movie was. Just look at Buffy. They tied Joss' hands badly. Push TV may turn out decent.
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Jan 19, 2010 10:33:15 PM CST
movie not bad, not great, but could be decent tv series...
by prof. pop-cult
especially if heroes goes off the air. push the movie reminded me more of the kind of novels/plots that the late philip k. dick wrote than a typical superhero story.
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Seriously, it had potential when it started, but it ran out of gas so fast it was like WTF? Not to mention it was all over the place. Making a tv show of it with Hayter working on it gives me some hope that it could turn out pretty decent.
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Just replace Dakota Fanning with an older young actress, like Natalie Portman (Dick had a thing for tow-head haircut brunettes), and set it in a future version of an American city, and the result would be very PK-Dickian. (In Western B-movies, Hong Kong often serves as a cheap, low budget stand-in for a "futuristic" type of city.)
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That'd be an interesting trick making a whole series out of that.
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Maybe every week she has another rape baby? ...was that too much? not enough? discuss!
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Can't be worse than heroes.
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how hard can it be to plagerise comics and make a great superhero tv show ie season one of heroes...
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...was the modern Dreamscape. Almost. Make of that what you will.
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Dreamscape on here, in awhile, that I can think of!
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...or "Heroes", or "Mutant X", or...
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Here's hoping they dont screw it up like heroes.
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syfy doesnt like genre shows like this. maybe spike, tnt, or g4 will bid on it.
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... that it wasnt a pilot when i watched it recently on cable??
oops!
no seriously, i thought that it was a decent enough movie to begin a tv show. basically, not interesting enough for a sequel but it would work for tv.
there was still the issue with dakota fanning's mom that they left open, a shady company, a bunch of grouped mutants (pushers, sniffers, watchers), a main bad guy (djimon was good on his role, cmon you know this). so hmm yeah, im all for this as a show. if it stays within the mythology instead of inserting new mutants every week like heroes season 2 and the special effects are half decent, instead of the laughable mutant x, it could be good. i'll watch it. -
Hope I don't get fooled again.
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doesn't have to be the first class, just do one set in the X-verse. Heroes, 4400, Mutant X - no new ideas, but maybe someday, someone will get it right.
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Imagine how easy to make that would be (not a lot of special effects), and how much ass it would kick if done right.
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...that wouldn't scream unless they took their shades off?
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I'd rather watch Push the series than Heroes. Hopefully the series will pick up where the movie left off -- they could just get other actors to fill in the roles.
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Why this crap and not a decent super hero T.V show ????????
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It wasn't great but it did have a decent vibe to it. I loved the score and the opening 15-20 minutes. After that it was watchable.
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Because it won't have any Godmode characters where each season is written around finding an excuse for them to be too occupied to fix everything in one episode.
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In the uk we have a superhero show called Misfits and its the nuts as we say. Doubt it will make its way to the states but if you can catch it check it out.
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