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That J.J. Abrams/Jonathan Nolan Pilot For CBS Turns Out To Be About A Scientist And A CIA Killer Who Team Against Pre-Crime!!
Way back on Sept. 17 Vulture reported that CBS was close to greenlighting a mysterious new crime thriller from screenwriter Jonathan Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) and producer J.J. Abrams (“Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol.”
Now CBS has not only confirmed the greenlight for “Persons of Interest,” it has revealed a premise that might remind some a little of Abrams’ “Fringe.” From Entertainment Weekly:
An ex-CIA hitman and a scientist team up to prevent crimes before they happen.
Until “Interest” is greenlit to series, CBS remains the only major network never to air an Abrams series. Abrams had “Felicity” at The WB, “Undercovers” at NBC and “Alias” and “Lost” at ABC, and still has “Fringe” at Fox. Nolan also co-wrote “The Prestige” and wrote the short story on which “Memento” is based.
Find EW’s story on the matter here.
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Sounds a lot like Minority Report
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Government victimizing people who haven't done anything yet. Hours of fine entertainment.
Also: Mission: Impossible: Colon: Protocol -
Probably fourth too.
I'm so awesome. -
The Prestige was pretty great also.
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No one loves the Nolan brothers as much as me, but isn't this just going to be an episodic version of Minority Report? I was so excited about this, now not so much.
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did abrams have a series on UPN?
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Will come out of this machine and 3 gay guys floating in milk will give them the leads.
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I retool other people's ideas and get called a genius for it! Fucking hack.
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Feb 10, 2011 1:42:26 AM CST
what? no apoplectic impotent hissy fit from assimovlives yet?
by chromedome
He must be re-watching his Glee Season 1 dvds....
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has generated a lot haters already. I remember Fringe getting something like this when it's premise as been announced. And now it's already becoming a cult classic.
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True, much of what JJ does is retooling. But if the original ideas were any good, wouldn't they have been produced as is? He may not be a genius original creator, but I think calling him a hack isn't really accurate, either.
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Now it's nothing like The X-Files and is the best thing on TV.
I am very interested in what Nolan/Abrams have to offer. -
Hey, I'd watch that.
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Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Alcatraz, ripping off Amblin movies, Minority Report... jesus.
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3..2..1..
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The monkey needs a sidekick who is a robot and also a vampire.
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Count Robotula
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Feb 10, 2011 7:53:31 AM CST
They should call one cop Interest and the other cop Loan
by redhead_redemption
Catch an all new Interest and Loan wednesday nights on CBS. Now with more laugh track
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Since the departure of Lost, Fringe is my favourite show on tv , and excluding some non thinking comedies the only thing I like on network tv, always hoping something else comes up
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Feb 10, 2011 8:26:17 AM CST
Prevention via psy (MINORITY REPORT) or stats (NUMB3RS)
by impossibledreamers
Or some kind of Usual Suspects thing?
How about lets solve the crimes that have already happened? Lord knows there are enough of them. -
The Human Centipede 3 chain should include Asimov, Spielberg, then Abrams, in that order.
Abrams is a master launching pad, but a mediocre rocket. -
Feb 10, 2011 8:39:31 AM CST
no friday night lights series finale talkback?
by hercvault_double_exclamation_point
I know you like friday night lights, Herc... the series finale was great... if i was teaching a course on writing for TV, i'd have friday night lights as a full semester case study... the writing is phenomenal as well as the acting, the music, the cinematography, the characters and the fact that they NEVER take the easy way out or use cliche characterization and cliche situations... brilliant, brilliant television.
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Does that not breach every principle of human rights...I mean, the crime has not been committed. Even if you have a machine that tells you that a murder takes place and who does it - it is surely against civil liberties to investigate people before the crime has taken place. So the premise is kind of twisted but I just can't see where they go with this. A CSI dept sitting, twiddling their thumbs until something happens?
My point: If a quality show like Fringe has struggled and fought its way to season three. Surely this won't get past the mid-season break? -
Feb 10, 2011 10:27:51 AM CST
Precrime is more of a reality now in our world- then it was when the film was made
by thejudger
So many thing we do now leave trails. Our Internet surfing and buying habits, our cellphone calls, and the cellphone itself as a tracking device, the camera systems in place in our cities, the computer chips in our cars that monitor our driving habits and times of operation. Systems that can identify stress levels in our handwriting, and voice conversations over the phone. Which also log keywords said over the phone. Image search engines that actually use images to find images that are similar or exactly the same over the Internet- Letting you trace down the origin of an image if it ever appeared somewhere online. Nearly everything we do is traceable now.
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Special programs in play to study the retained activity habits of captured criminals. Finding out what they have in common as a collective. Setting up a monitoring system that detects and logs anyone who preforms similar types of activity events.
Dropping these types of people into a watch group. When one of those "watch types" starts looking up words like "Preventing fingerprints by wearing chainmail butchers gloves" It time t go get em! Thereby stopping crime before it happens.
You don't think this is reality, you don't think it wont be fact one day. Ha! -
The ideas he's aping WERE made elsewhere. Granted no movie you make is going be 100% original. Everything will remind you of something, but with Abrams as soon as you hear one sentence you go "Oh, so it's Minority Report'. Oh so it's 'True Lies' but on TV. Oh, so he's basically remaking X-Files or E.T. I think his brainstorm sessions are basically like "let's redo this movie cause I like it. Only we'll come up with some kind of cocktease so people don't realize they're just watching something they've already watched.". Genius!
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I have no doubt they will market it as being from the writer of "The Dark Knight" and "Inception". Pilot will break records I trust, where it goes after that will depend on how good it is
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A"An ex-CIA hitman and a scientist team up to prevent crimes before they happen."
If we can do it large scale across the world, why not why not charge Nike for air space while we do it in our own homes? -
RIGHT?!?! Because that's the one I really want to see, along with Alcatraz...
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I think so.
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"So many thing we do now leave trails. Our Internet surfing and buying habits, our cellphone calls, and the cellphone itself as a tracking device, the camera systems in place in our cities, the computer chips in our cars that monitor our driving habits and times of operation. Systems that can identify stress levels in our handwriting, and voice conversations over the phone. Which also log keywords said over the phone. Image search engines that actually use images to find images that are similar or exactly the same over the Internet- Letting you trace down the origin of an image if it ever appeared somewhere online. Nearly everything we do is traceable now."
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sounds like how they created avatars in Caprica -
Justin Bieber Never Say Never (in 3D!).
The absence of his hissy fits and tantrums is pretty refreshing.
Keeping assimovlives occupied may be the only positive contribution ever made by Bieber... -
... but didn't the BBC (or was it ITV) try something slightly similar with their 'Paradox' series? Not that this new series will be a copy of anything, just pointing out that there are other ways to create a show that involves preventing future crimes without it being the same as 'Minority Report'.
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Feb 10, 2011 8:40:25 PM CST
Oh if this is the Terry O'Quinn/Michael Emerson show...
by yaroh_meringue
...I'm so there.
Pre-crime is still a disgusting concept, tho'. -
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COUNT ROBOTULA
What manner of creature are you? What are you doing here? These streets are dangerous?
MONKEY make monkey noises
COUNT
What's that? You are here to clean up the streets? Here to fight crime? You are trained in the arts of kung fu, muai thai and greco roman wrestling?
MONKEY makes further noises
COUNT
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Feb 11, 2011 4:33:30 AM CST
A creative cretine (Abrams) and a screenwriter genious (Nolan 2) teamed up to create a TV show. It will level out into bland averageness.
by asimovlives
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Feb 11, 2011 4:35:27 AM CST
"it has revealed a premise that might remind some a little of Abrams’ “Fringe.” "
by asimovlives
Because Abrams can never resist to rip off himself. And he does so because how limited he is in his creative skills. As it would.
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Feb 11, 2011 4:37:15 AM CST
chromedome, it's AsimovLives, you cretin. And i don't like that Bieber bullshit, idiot. It's you who is into that shit...
by asimovlives
... considering you loved the Justin Bieber version of Star Trek, the one Abrams made.
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Feb 11, 2011 4:54:53 AM CST
kukheart, i share your love for the Nolan Brothers, but...
by asimovlives
... the British Nolan decision to hire Zack The Hack Snyder to direct Supemran and the americna nolan decision to team up with Jar Jar Abrams has cooled me somewhat. Even the greats fuck up.
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One day i'll watch the SGU pilot, so to understand your enthusiasm for the show. I'll do it because of you.
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"Hi I'm J.J. I retool other people's ideas and get called a genius for it!"
Best description of Jar Jar Abrams ever made.
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I despise them honestly. I don't pretend to hate what i love. I love wha ti love and hate what i hate. I'm honest that way.
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Feb 11, 2011 5:15:58 AM CST
Super Monkey City. I'd watch that. Good job, [dioxholster], you are not using your potential.
by asimovlives
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Feb 11, 2011 5:44:19 AM CST
freebeer, Jonathan Nolan didn't wrote INCEPTION, it was his older brother Christopher.
by asimovlives
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Feb 11, 2011 5:56:38 AM CST
In the end, Abrams making a new TV show doesn't bother me much.
by asimovlives
Despiste all my pissing on FRINGE, i really don't care all that much if Jar Jar Abraams and his cronies are fucking around on TV. It's their fucking around on movies that really bothers me, speially when they make dumb down crap versions of former good properties, like Star Trek.
The only way Abrams can piss me off in his Tv work is if he gets his pawns on TV Star Trek or any other classic good TV show and make a whole TV show in the image of his fucking ST movie. Other then that, whatever! -
Feb 11, 2011 11:21:43 AM CST
What I wouldn't do to see a fan-made trailer for "Super Monkey City"...
by writefortheedit
...I can't imagine.
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Feb 11, 2011 12:59:32 PM CST
I want SUPER MONKEY CITY, and i want it now, dammit! [dioxholster], get working.
by asimovlives
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Hey JJ, how about a new show that doesn't sound batshit? And why is every CIA agent on TV an "ex CIA assasin"??! The "brains and muscle" team-up is getting cliche
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