Sci-Fi Channel is getting busy!
The SCI FI Channel announced two new major original miniseries projects in development for 2004: a four-hour remake of the The Thing and a six-night event. The six-hour 6 Days ’til Sunday unfolds over six consecutive nights and tells the story of J.T. Neumeyer, who stumbles upon a mysterious briefcase foretelling his own gruesome murder in six days.
David Kirschner (Frailty, Earth: Final Conflict and The Flintstones) executive produces 6 Days, which is being produced by Lions Gate Films (USA’s The Dead Zone).
The Thing re-envisions John Carpenter’s 1982 feature film and its predecessor, 1951’s The Thing From Another World, which is based in turn on John W. Campbell Jr.’s classic SF short story “Who Goes There?” The story centers on a team of American scientists who discover a bloodthirsty alien life form in the frozen expanse of Antarctica. Swift, stealthy and cunning, this shapeshifting monster assumes the appearance of its victims with the aim of earning the scientists’ trust and decimating the group from the inside.
Gary L. Goldman (Minority Report, Total Recall) wrote the miniseries, which will be distributed by USA Cable Entertainment, a unit of Vivendi Universal Entertainment, which also owns SCI FI and SCIFI.COM. Other previously announced SCI FI projects currently in development include Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars, A Tale of Two Cities, MYST, The Forever War and miniseries based on Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy and her literary classic Left Hand of Darkness.
SCI FI also begins production on April 1 on the four-hour miniseries Battlestar Galactica, a re-imagining of the classic 1980s TV series. The project stars Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, among others, and is slated to premiere in December. Thanks Jr
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