David Cronenberg’s ‘Scanners’ is being turned in to a TV series. The 1981 sci-fi horror film, which was essentially Cronenberg’s breakout hit, is in development at HBO
The film followed scanners that are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers.
It followed Darryl Revok, played by Michael Ironside, a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec, a weapons and security company. Another scanner, Cameron Vale, played by Stephen Lack, is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok. The series is set in the “mind-bending world” of Cronenberg’s film. Pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers, two women living on the fringes of modern society must learn to work together to topple a vast conspiracy determined to bring them to heel.
It will be exec produced by Cronenberg, Bridges, Demange, Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer of Media Res Studio, Meredith Duff and Sarah Sullivan of Wayward Films, René Malo and Fanny-Laure Malo, Pierre David, Clark Peterson and Aaron Gilbert.
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