Any NIN fans in this piece?!?
Well, this next development may be for you! According to the L.A. Times, NIN frontman Trent Reznor is in talks with HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions to usher in his long gestating sci-fi epic “Year Zero,” a dark response to the geopolitical avarice demonstrated by the Bush administration. Okay then…
Word is producers Lawrence Bender (PULP FICTION, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and Kevin Kelly Brown (“Roswell”) are also on board, with “Carnivale” scribe Daniel Knauf currently hammering out pages for the sci-fi miniseries.
Here’s what Reznor told the Times:
“We are in [the development phase of] pre-production with HBO and BBC [Worldwide Productions] to do a miniseries. It’s exciting. I probably shouldn’t say too much about it except that I understand that there’s a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. It’s been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.”
Wow, sounds like it’s still a good distance away from actually being on the screen. You couple the last statement with Reznor’s assessment that “It’s been an interesting collaborative effort but I’ve learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace,” don’t expect to see “Year Zero” on the tube anytime soon.
Still, is it a project you can get behind solely based on the people involved? Or do you need to learn a little more about the project to fully support it?
For more on Reznor’s “Year Zero” click HERE.
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