UPGRADE is – to put it mildly – f*cking awesome! It's action-packed, bloody, humorous, and even has some clever plot points and a relatively decent heart at its core. It's basically everything you'd want in a badass sci-fi action romp! Now, writer-director Leigh Whannell, fresh off his success with Blumhouse's INVISIBLE MAN, is teaming up with the studio again to make a sequel TV series. Here's all the details we know about so far:
- Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are adapting Leigh Whannell’s 2018 sci-fi, thriller Upgrade into a television series for Whannell to direct.
- The series, which Whannell co-created and will executive produce along with showrunner Tim Walsh (Treadstone, Chicago P.D., Shooter), picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host – imaging a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity.
- A writer's room has commenced to write and adapt the series’ first season. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of The Purge, have joined Whannell and Walsh.
Honestly, I'm personally hesitant, as television adaptations of feature films are always very hit-or-miss. But I'm still willing to give Whannell a benefit of the doubt, as I loved both UPGRADE and INVISIBLE MAN. But we'll see.
Meanwhile, here's the official synopsis of the original 2018 film:
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
So what do you guys think? Fans of the original? If so, what do you think of the TV series idea? Either way, sound off below!
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