A series adaptation of the David Cronenberg film Scanners is in development at HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The iconic director will reportedly produce.
1981 horror cult classic about a small group of super-powered people with psychic, telepathic and telekinetic abilities. The plot of the film centers on the efforts of the rebel Daryl Revok – played by Michael Ironside – to fight against the arms and security corporation CONSEC, which wants to use people with these powers for their own purposes.
With the version currently in development at HBO, William Bridges (Black Mirror) will show and write for the series with Ian Demange (Lovecraft Country), who will direct. Both will executive produce. A description of the series doesn’t tell us much, but in addition to confirming that the series will take place in the world of Scanners, it also reads: “Chased by relentless agents with unimaginable powers, two women living on the fringes of modern society must unravel a vast conspiracy destined to bring them to heel. Learn to work together to overcome.”
If Scanners gets the greenlight, it will be the second series adaptation of a Cronenberg film in recent years Amazon is also developing a series version of her 1988 film Dead Ringers, with Rachel Weisz in a dual role as a pair of twin sisters.
This past summer, Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future hit theaters and featured many of the director’s familiar themes. A synopsis of his latest film reads: “As the human species adapts to an artificial environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. Along with his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser, publicly displays the transformation of his limbs. Garde performance. Timlin, an investigator with the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, when a mysterious group emerges… their mission–to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next stage of human evolution.” As Cronenberg predicted, people walked out of the premiere of Crimes of the Future within the first five minutes because of a “particularly weird” scene.
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