From Mad Men to sci-fi horror
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- October
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AMC is getting into the sci-fi game, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The network’s developing the “sci-fi horror thriller” 99 Stories.
The stories in question are the number of flights in a “multipurpose building” in some unnamed city. A group of strangers is invited to tour the building, which is new. They “find themselves trapped in it with no way out but up.”
David Seltzer, who wrote the original and remade versions of The Omen, as well as the screenplays for Shining Through, My Giant and Dragonfly, is creating it with James Middletown (exprod of The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Steven Banks (he’s written 14 episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants since 2005).
Seltzer’s writing it. I’m guessing the 99 stories sets them up for, what, five or six years worth of episodes? (Cable shows tend to have shorter seasons than their network brethren/sisteren).
In their fight for survival, the strangers are at the mercy of a technological brain that electronically controls every element of the building.
For example, the elevators, Seltzer explained, choose which people deserve to move up a flight in the building.
But the show’s not only about the folks trapped off in the building.
What’s going on there is not about the people trapped inside, it affects the rest of the world.
AMC, which aired one of its first original series, Mad Men (my husband’s absolute favorite show ever, I think), this summer, apparently has been looking for a horror series franchise to work with its Monsterfest (in its 11th year this year), AMC VP for original series and miniseries Christina Wayne.
“The 11th annual fest, which features 240 hours of nonstop horror films, is now under way, and for the first time, the marathon has expanded online, with full-length feature films available at amctv.com,” according to THR.
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Parker Stevenson was in a movie where his house was like that and it took over his life etc..
Its an old theme that recurs quite often.
Point in case .. Resident evil movie. The first one the HIVE’s brain took over…
You have the smart home of the sheriff in Eureka.
It gets tiring after awhile.