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NCIS Producer Gil Grant Dicusses Gattaca TV Show
13 November 2009 8:36 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Sometimes, when you hear a movie is being turned into a TV show, you can’t help but cringe. It’s not always easy to make the transition from feature film to television show, especially when the movie has a loyal following. Some of the movies that have made the best transition into the TV world include M.A.S.H, Stargate, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Could Gattaca join that list?
Though often overlooked, Gattaca was one of the more interesting science fiction films to come out of the 1990s. Featuring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law, the movie explored a futuristic society where genetic engineering was the norm, creating a world where “Valids” (individuals who had been genetically enhanced before birth) live in a socially superior position to “Invalids” (average Joes like you and me).
Recently, the MTV Movies Blog caught up with writer/producer Gil Grant (NCIS:Los Angeles, »
- Rob Frappier
TV Tidbits: Gattaca Series Will Be a Police Procedural, ABC Eying Charlies Angels and Goes Crazy with New Sitcom, New Caprica Poster
12 November 2009 11:12 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Let's start with the most interesting TV news tonight: MTV got to sit down with Gil Grant (24, NCIS:La), writer of the upcoming Gattaca television series, and managed to get some fascinating info from him. If you were wondering how Andrew Niccol's film would be adapted to TV, I have two words for you: Police procedural. While it's far from a unique concept on television, the idea of making one of the cops an Invalid (a person born without the benefit of genetic diagnosis), and another a genetically superior Valid, does seem somewhat inspired. There's a reason police procedurals have taken off so much---they're simply perfectly suited to TV storytelling. It also works well for this particular project because being in a police station will give us an inside glimpse into Gattaca's society of genetic have and have-nots. Grant is also adding another concept not found in the film, »
- Devindra Hardawar
New Details on Gattaca TV Series Comes Forward
12 November 2009 9:34 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
A few weeks ago we reported that a TV version of Andrew Niccol's sci-fi classic Gattaca was moving forward, and now that project's writer revealed some new details. MTV Movies Blog recently spoke with writer-producer Gil Grant, who is writing the pilot for the series, about how he is opening up the world of the movie for this new police procedural.
"I came up with a world which is populated with Valids and Invalids, the same premise [as the movie], but taken into a police department where we're... integrating, using the analogy of the '60s Civil Rights struggle. Even though it's technically illegal to discriminate against Invalids, just like in the '60s people did," Grant continued. "So it's come to pass that [the government has] ordered the police department to hire their first token Invalid into the detective department. What we're doing is we're taking an Invalid and teaming him up with a Valid, »
Gattaca TV Show to Become a Generic Cop Show?
12 November 2009 9:32 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
The idea of a “Gattaca” TV show sounds like a winner when I first heard it, but the idea of turning Andrew Niccol’s perfectly honed world into another generic TV cop show on TV? Aw, man, I don’t know, that sounds, well, generic to me. In any case, Gil Grant, who has been assigned to adapt the movie into a TV show for producer Denis Leary recently talked to MTV about his approach to the show. Grant confirms that Andrew Niccol has nothing to do with the show, will probably have no involvement whatsoever, and for better or worst, Grant plans to introduce a more procedural cop show vibe into “Gattaca”. Grant is no stranger to procedural shows, having worked on the incredibly dull but unfathomably popular “NCIS” shows, as well as the more enjoyable “24″. “I came up with a world which is populated with Valids and Invalids, »
- Nix
Exclusive: 'Gattaca' TV Series Details From Writer And 'NCIS' Producer Gil Grant
12 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
A couple weeks ago, Variety ran a story about what's next for Denis Leary, Jim Serpico and Apostle Films after the hit FX series "Rescue Me" wraps up in 2011. Tucked away at the end of the story was a brief bit about plans to produce a future-set one hour police procedural based on the Andrew Niccol-directed "Gattaca." Writer/producer Gil Grant, whose previous TV credits include "24" and "NCIS: Los Angeles," was named as the scribe, but that was where the news ended.
"Gattaca," released in 1997, didn't explode at the box office. It's attracted quite a following in its home video afterlife however, and deservedly so. You've got Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law starring in a futuristic thriller set in a world divided between Valids -- people who were genetically altered in utero to "reach their full potential" as humans -- and Invalids, or those born through natural means. »
- Adam Rosenberg
tMF Featured Trailer: Ethan Hawke rocks in Daybreakers!
1 November 2009 6:36 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Ethan Hawke may not be as popular as Leonardo DiCaprio or even Jude Law, but there was a time when his name appeared first in billing followed by Law - that's in Gattaca of course! I can still remember the young actor when he played opposite Robin Williams and Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets' Society and who can forget Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset? Oh, how about Reality Bites? I could go on and on, but before I forget - two awesome films - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Training Day.
Now, of all characters, he's playing a vampire! Can he bring some kind of 'wonderful' for the beloved (and infamous) fictional character?
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- - - About the Movie: Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Featured Trailer: Ethan Hawke rocks in Daybreakers!
1 November 2009 6:36 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Ethan Hawke may not be as popular as Leonardo DiCaprio or even Jude Law, but there was a time when his name appeared first in billing followed by Law - that's in Gattaca of course! I can still remember the young actor when he played opposite Robin Williams and Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets' Society and who can forget Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset? Oh, how about Reality Bites? I could go on and on, but before I forget - two awesome films - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Training Day.
Now, of all characters, he's playing a vampire! Can he bring some kind of 'wonderful' for the beloved (and infamous) fictional character?
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- - - About the Movie: Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Featured Trailer: Ethan Hawke rocks in Daybreakers!
1 November 2009 6:36 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Ethan Hawke may not be as popular as Leonardo DiCaprio or even Jude Law, but there was a time when his name appeared first in billing followed by Law - that's in Gattaca of course! I can still remember the young actor when he played opposite Robin Williams and Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets' Society and who can forget Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset? Oh, how about Reality Bites? I could go on and on, but before I forget - two awesome films - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Training Day.
Now, of all characters, he's playing a vampire! Can he bring some kind of 'wonderful' for the beloved (and infamous) fictional character?
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- - - About the Movie: Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Featured Trailer: Ethan Hawke rocks in Daybreakers!
1 November 2009 6:36 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Ethan Hawke may not be as popular as Leonardo DiCaprio or even Jude Law, but there was a time when his name appeared first in billing followed by Law - that's in Gattaca of course! I can still remember the young actor when he played opposite Robin Williams and Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets' Society and who can forget Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset? Oh, how about Reality Bites? I could go on and on, but before I forget - two awesome films - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Training Day.
Now, of all characters, he's playing a vampire! Can he bring some kind of 'wonderful' for the beloved (and infamous) fictional character?
- - -
- - - About the Movie: Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Featured Trailer: Ethan Hawke rocks in Daybreakers!
1 November 2009 6:36 PM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Ethan Hawke may not be as popular as Leonardo DiCaprio or even Jude Law, but there was a time when his name appeared first in billing followed by Law - that's in Gattaca of course! I can still remember the young actor when he played opposite Robin Williams and Robert Sean Leonard in Dead Poets' Society and who can forget Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset? Oh, how about Reality Bites? I could go on and on, but before I forget - two awesome films - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Training Day.
Now, of all characters, he's playing a vampire! Can he bring some kind of 'wonderful' for the beloved (and infamous) fictional character?
- - -
- - - About the Movie: Two-time Academy Award nominee® Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Denis Leary To Bring The World Of Gattaca To Television
31 October 2009 4:56 PM, PDT | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
Denis Leary is good, but I wouldn’t have thought that Sci-Fi was his kind of thing. Maybe he just loves a good idea. The awesome world of a genetic caste society described in the awesome “Gattaca” starring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman is on the way to T.V. Mr. Leary’s Apostle Films has bought the rights and we’ll probably see it sometime soon after Denis’s run ends on Rescue Me in 2011. In “Gattaca”, you only get as far in life as your genetic strength foretells. That is, unless you’re smart enough to cheat. “Gattaca” is great stuff. Go rent it. Thanks Slashfilm. »
- endymi0n
Sony Developing a Gattaca TV Series
30 October 2009 1:49 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Andrew Niccol's Gattaca is one of my all time favourite science-fiction movies, so you can imagine how my ears might perk up at the mention of the film being turned into a television series. The details, however, are still a bit sketchy at the moment, and it's hard to say whether or not it will even come close to capturing the myriad of intriguing ideas contained within the film. Buried away within a Variety [1] article about Denis Leary, Jim Serpico and their Apostle Films production company is the following bit of news: "Next up, the company has secured the rights to the feature film "Gattica," which they plan to develop as a one-hour police procedural set in the future. The "Gattica" smallscreen adaptation will be written by Gil Grant and is being developed through Sony TV's international division." Yes, they misspelled the name of the movie (I guess they »
- Sean
Gattaca TV
30 October 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Buried in a Variety article today (but caught by the eagle eyes at Slashfilm) is the news that Denis Leary's production company is remaking the 1997 Ethan Hawke film Gattaca as a TV series. What's Gattaca, you ask? Oh, only the best sci-fi film ever that no one has seen. I need the TV show to incorporate three elements from the original movie, and then I'll be happy: that incredible Michael Nyman score, a stuffy Gore Vidal, and a handful of homoerotic swimming competitions. Good luck! [Variety] »
Gattaca to Spawn TV Series
30 October 2009 7:56 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We don't know a lot about this project yet, but buried in a trade break about Denis Leary's production shingle Apostle Films, which is developing a bunch of new shows to prepare for Rescue Me's scheduled 2011 end point, there's an interesting piece of detail. The company has bought the rights to Gattaca, Andrew Niccol's 1997 sci-fi film, and will develop it as a television series. Variety specifically says this: The company has secured the rights to the feature film Gattica [sic], which they plan to develop as a one-hour police procedural set in the future. The Gattica smallscreen adaptation will be written by Gil Grant and is being developed through Sony TV's international division. Ok, setting aside the misspelling, that's a weird bit of news. Gattaca, which created a society in which DNA determines a person's place in society, was a film about human determination and ability, class and discrimination. »
- Russ Fischer
Gattaca Heading to the Small Screen?
30 October 2009 7:17 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Could a 1997 sci-fi film be heading towards a TV series remake? According to Variety, Denis Leary's production company Apostle Films has acquired the rights to Andrew Niccol's film Gattaca for a small-screen adaptation.
Although the trade paper did spell the film wrong ("Gattica") there are no listings for such a film, and it was described as a dramatic police procedural set in the future, which would fall in line with aspects of the film.
Gil Grant is writing the pilot, which is set up at Sony Television's international division.
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Secret Identity: Five Actors Who Could Play Magneto In 'X-Men Origins: Magneto'
15 October 2009 2:46 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Given recent comments from Sir Ian McKellen about his involvement (or lack thereof) in the upcoming "X-Men Origins: Magneto" film from Fox, it's time to face the inevitable—Magneto is going to be recast. This was already a virtual certainty due to the story's purported focus on the Master of Magnetism's more youthful days, but McKellen's words confirm the need for a new, younger actor.
Recasting Magneto is difficult for a number of reasons. For one, McKellen already played him so expertly that an actor of his quality is absolutely essential—and not only that, but it'd be a good idea to find someone who looks like they could age into McKellen's likeness, which is very tricky. For that reason, I think it's more important to focus on finding an excellent, fitting actor for the role, rather than selecting an actor based on his likeness to McKellen.
When and if "X-Men Origins: Magneto" gets underway, »
- Josh Wigler
Tiff ‘09: Daybreakers
24 September 2009 8:19 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Daybreakers Directed by Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig In 2003 the twin Australian filmmakers, The Spierig Brothers, unleashed the no-budget, frenetic, zombie opus titled Undead onto the world. Now after a six year hiatus, they have finally returned with the world premiere of their new movie Daybreakers, at Tiff's Midnight Madness. Daybreakers tackles the vampire genre with all of the energy and enthusiasm shown in Undead, but now with a bigger budget, a more revered cast, and a better script. The vampire film has become almost as tired as the zombie film, but with even greater presence in the mainstream. It's saturated with things like Twilight and True Blood, taking the terrifying Draculas and Nosferatus, and transforming them into pop icons like Edward Cullen. Now the Spierig bothers are breathing some new life into the vampire genre with their extremely inventive second feature. In this world, power has shifted into the hands of the vampires, »
- Ricky
'Community': Get to know Yvette Nicole Brown (and how she got to know Chevy, Joel, Jude, and Gerard)
24 September 2009 1:22 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Fans of NBC's Community (Thursdays, 9:30 p.m. Et) know Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley, the sassy divorcée that Chevy Chase's eccentric Pierce has sexually harassed during Spanish study group. Fans of TV in general might remember her as a Daily Variety ad salesperson on Entourage, the Staples coworker who had an argument with Dwight on The Office, or the organ procurement person who didn't realize that the husband (Heroes' Greg Grunberg) she was speaking to didn't know that his wife was dead on House. Fans of movies (who don't blink) might recall her as a secretary in (500) Days of Summer and the only black woman a producer arguing for more fluff in the opening show-how-efficient-Katherine-Heigl-is sequence in The Ugly Truth. After meeting Brown, we know her as someone we'd like to have drinks with. The woman, whose big splurge when she finally got a promising network series »
- Mandi Bierly
Niccol gets The Host
24 September 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
The array of novel adaptations from writer Stephanie Meyer continue to grow as her latest book The Host gets the feature film treatment. Andrew Niccol will write and direct the adaptation, adding onto his credits which include Lord of War and Gattaca. The project was picked up by Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae and Steve Schwartz out of their own money Variety reports.
Meyer’s novel is a love story set in the near future on Earth, which has been assimilated by an alien species that call themselves “Souls.” They are benevolent parasites that subsume the conscious of humans and take possession of their bodies. One such soul, The Wanderer (so named because she has wandered among so many different worlds) is fused with a dying human named Melanie Stryder, in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth. The Wanderer cannot subsume the forceful Melanie, and »
- Melissa Molina
Producers Buy Rights to Stephenie Meyer’s Host
24 September 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Producers have purchased the screen rights to Stephenie Meyer’s new adult novel The Host and have attached Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) as the director. Meyer is best known as the author of the four Twilight books for teens, including the upcoming sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
The three producers acquired them with their own money and plan to independently finance the production, according to Variety. Niccol was selected because Meyer listed Gattaca and The Truman Show as two of her favorite science fiction films, both of which he scripted. Meyer will be part of the creative adaptation process, much like she was on Twilight.
The novel is a romance story (of course) set in the near future on Earth, which has been assimilated by an alien species that control human bodies. One of these “Souls” occupies the dying body of the protagonist, Melanie Stryder, who battles with her spirit »
- Jeff Leins
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