Afrigather Scanners, the 1981 horror cult traditional from David Cronenberg, is getting the HBO sequence therapy.
William Bridges, who received an Emmy for co-writing the “USS Callister” episode of Black Mirror, is appearing as author and showrunner for the sequence, which is in improvement, with Yann Demange, who helmed the pilot for HBO’s Lovecraft Country, directing. Each will exec produce.
This mission will probably be a co-production between HBO, Media Res Studio and Wayward Movies.
Scanners instructed of a small group of individuals with a variety of psychic, telepathic and telekinetic powers. One faction of scanners, as these individuals had been labeled, was led by a power-mad man named Revok, performed by Michael Ironside, who goals to take over the world, whereas a personal safety agency recruits its personal scanners to cease him for its personal, probably shady, causes.
The film was a Canadian manufacturing that was on the forefront of a slow-moving wave of homegrown fare geared toward competing with U.S. content material. It was additionally the primary mainstream success for Cronenberg, who went on to determine a horror, after which artwork home, profession properly into the Nineteen Eighties and past.
The sequence is being described as a visceral thriller set within the mind-bending world of Cronenberg’s movie. It’s going to deal with two ladies dwelling on the fringes of recent society who’re pursued by relentless brokers with unimaginable powers and thus should be taught to work collectively to topple an unlimited conspiracy decided to carry them to heel.
Cronenberg, who additionally wrote the unique film, will act as govt producer together with Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer of Media Res Studio and Meredith Duff and Sarah Sullivan of Wayward Movies.
Extra govt producers embrace René and Fanny-Laure Malo, Pierre David, Clark Peterson and Aaron Gilbert.
Ellenberg’s Media Res has been growing Scanners for over 5 years. The corporate is understood for taking its time to completely bake exhibits that then generate buzz and acclaim. Media Res spent 4 years engaged on Pachinko earlier than the Apple TV+ sequence change into one of the critically praised dramas of 2022. The corporate can be behind The Morning Present, now capturing its third season, and HBO’s Scenes From a Marriage, and is in publish on local weather change anthology Extrapolations.
Demange made his characteristic directorial debut with ’71, a drama set in Northern Eire through the battle referred to as “the Troubles” after which helmed crime drama White Boy Rick starring Matthew McConaughey. He directed the primary episode of Lovecraft Nation and was an govt producer on the present, setting its layered pulpy and gory tone. The supernatural horror sequence solely lasted one season, however throughout that run it tackled hot-button points and garnered appreciable acclaim, accumulating 18 Emmy nominations.
Recognized for working in character-based sci-fi genres, Bridges wrote two episodes of Black Mirror, the well-regarded twenty first century echo of The Twilight Zone, in addition to a season three episode of Stranger Issues. He created, with Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein, the sci-fi anthology present Soulmates that aired on AMC.
Bridges is repped by WME, Grandview and the U.Ok.’s Curtis Brown Group. Demange is repped by CAA, Goodman Genow and the U.Ok.’s Unbiased Expertise Group.
