THR is reporting that a TV adaptation of the 1995 Bruce Willis/Brad Pitt sci-fi film 12 Monkeys is near a series order at Syfy.
The pitch, which came from producers Chuck Roven and Richard Suckle, was for there to be a 90-minute “backdoor” pilot that would eventually lead to a straight-to-series order – much like Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica. The original Terry Gilliam film involved a time travel trek to the past in an attempt to unravel the origins of a mysterious virus which wiped out almost all of humanity.
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