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05Nov2009

Roland Emmerich Working on '2012' TV Spin-Off

DateThursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:09AM
I'm not sure whether or not this requires a spoiler alert, but director Roland Emmerich says he's planning a TV spin-off to 2012. So I guess that means the world doesn't totally come to an end in Emmerich's latest movie about, well, the end of the world. What a relief!

While on the red carpet for his new flick, Emmerich told Entertainment Weekly, "The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster; it is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating." OK, I'll grant you, Mr. Disaster Pants, that is a compelling setting for an episodic drama. They've tried similar ideas before and most of them have never really worked.

But this would have what could be a pretty powerful lead-in. Of course, the movie could go the way of last year's Day the Earth Stood Still, and then any talks of a TV off-shoot would dry up pretty quickly.

Emmerich would be working with Mark Gordon, who is better known as a TV producer anyway but did have a hand in making 2012. And that's kind of where it started:

"We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

Entertainment Weekly says Gordon picked up his hotline to ABC and is working on finding a home for 2013 over there, presumably to take Lost's spot in the rotation. But first things first: Let's make sure the mythology in the movie is worht revisting.

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