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Post-Apocalyptic Tale THE HUNDRED Developing At CW!!
If “Revolution,” “The Walking Dead,” “Falling Skies” and Syfy’s upcoming “Defiance” aren’t sating your lust for post-apocalyptic hourlong mayhem, The CW is developing “The Hundred,” the tale of a hundred juvenile delinquents charged with saving the human race by repopulating a long-abandoned Earth.
It carries the smell of “Hunger Games,” if you’re asking me.
Set in the far future, the script is from Jason Rothenberg, who scripted the channel’s 2009 “Body Politic” pilot, which followed twentysomethings working in Washington, D.C.
Rothenberg also wrote the proposed “Twilight Zone” movie being developed at Warner Bros.
Find Deadline’s story on the matter here.
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I bet everyone will be clean and wonderful looking.
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You shouldn't be allowed to write sci-fi, if you don't have the tiniest bit of sci in it.
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The hair and outfits will take longer than the script.
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There is no end to the diversity we have from just those two alone!
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Just to make the appeal of the series more apparent.
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I thought you only needed 14 pairs to avoid inbreeding in a population?
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Which should be populated with slack jawed yokels, and other hillbilly stereotypes due to the ridiculously low breeding pairs they had in there. Was it 8 women and 20 men? It would be 6 fingers and hermaphrodites within 4 generations.
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...but what it does sound like is "stupid."
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Oct. 5, 2012, 8:49 a.m. CST
Will it be filmed with that organey background so popular with Dawson's Creek and Smallville.
by Drew
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Oct. 5, 2012, 8:51 a.m. CST
Also I'm sure these 100 deliquents will know about farming, hunting, butchering meat, basic 1st aid, how to deliver a baby, and sanitation.
by Drew
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Oct. 5, 2012, 8:53 a.m. CST
SPOILER: the ultimate villain in the final episode who brought them all there is...
by TheBaxter
Jerry Sandusky
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Oct. 5, 2012, 9:12 a.m. CST
col. tigh-fighter, true, but at least there will be a population my professional friend
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Since if you gave it shot, well you know. ; )
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Oct. 5, 2012, 9:13 a.m. CST
Am I the only one around here who's first thought was Lord of the Flies?
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
I'd say I'm dating myself, but since it's a classic maybe I'm the only well-read one here.
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Provided breeding managed to every child borne by a woman is fathered by a different male. And while you don't need a man for each woman, having multiple males good for diversity sake. I understand what dude means about Hunger Games vibe, purely from the disposable adolescent angle. But he completely misses that in HG, the kids are a tribute, taken from loving parents powerless to stop it. These delinquents would be considered expendable, surplus population. So really, other than teens dying left and right, not really HGish. On the plus side most of the juvenile delinquents I've met have few full-blood siblings, and a pile of half-siblings and step-sibs. So maybe these characters will be used to having 5 kids by 4 different baby-daddies. So WooHoo breeding program!
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100 boys enter. 100 emotionally devastated adults exit. Coming to the CW this fall!
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Oct. 5, 2012, 9:31 a.m. CST
I can think of a show at least 44 times more interesting than this....
by Jarek
Now if I can only remember the title?
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But in so many respects, Lord of the Flies is like Thunderdome. Here, the teens have a job rather than being stranded. Also, the fact that there will be females will go a long way to mitigating the male hostility. Stabbing a pig won't have to be a surrogate for a gang-bang. Younger readers: is Lord of the Flies still required reading in High School? Is reading novels still required in High School? Actually this reminds me I never did see the 1990 film. Seen the 1963 a few times.
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Oct. 5, 2012, 9:41 a.m. CST
himbo, but if they are on an abandoned earth, then they are stranded.
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
I've not seen the 1963 film, but the 1990 was pretty good.
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Bring plenty of bananas! And frogs!
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Oct. 5, 2012, 9:47 a.m. CST
Wouldn't 100 merely just die off from disease, starvation, infertility, etc. You know, like in the real world?
by kidicarus
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Oct. 5, 2012, 10:32 a.m. CST
So which Canadian parking lot or park will they be using?
by HollywoodHellraiser
Cause alot of trees grows in Canada!
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In Flies, kids are stranded by chance. Presumably here, the kids ARE stranded, but they are chosen. Maybe even offered the choice, dirty-dozen style. Also these kids might have a chance at a better life if they can survive long enough to build it. Flies, the kids situation just gets worse and worse. Unfortunately neither version is available on Netflix. The 1963 version is creepy and moody and understated, and uses the B&W photography to great effect.
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...opinions on this vary. For instance, Tristan da Cunha (current population 264) was populated from eight men and seven women. Pitcairn (current population 50 after extensive emmigration) did the same with 15 men and 12 women. Both islands are extremely isolated and survived for 200 years. Only Tristan da Cunha had problems with inbreeding and they were relatively mild (asthma, which three of the original 15 suffered from). So there are two 200 year samples that would tend to indicate that a relatively small initial breeding population could be viable. However, there are a huge number of variables that could impact this. I've read somewhere that for intergenerational starships a number between 600 and 2,000 was considered optimal. And on a gut level I agree with you, because even the 2,000 number seems perilously low.
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...my opinion of this show. 100 teenagers, stranded on a hostile, abandoned planet. As a plan it is as stupid as any I can imagine. As a show it is...pretty much in-line for what the CW's all about.
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But on CW, it's going to be even worse.
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As for the Zion repopulation, I always figured that once the people where chosen by the One, the machines would take samples of their DNA and probably use some elements from past DNA stock to smooth out the rough edges in terms of inbreeding. The machines would want to get a decent amount of people grown and plugged back in to repopulate both the city in the matrix and Zion. Wasn't it something like every 25-30 years the matrix had to be rebooted? I'm guessing the city plus Zion had a million or two people populating them.
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a kiwi/brit production about the results of a plague that kills all the adults and leaves the kids
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Oct. 6, 2012, 10:42 a.m. CST
Or Jeremiah, which had killed anyone who hit puberty, and the kids
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
grew up in anarchy in the aftermath.
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CLASSIC EARLY 00's CINEMA!!!! No, but...no.
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