ABC - TV SERIES MAY BECOME "SEQUEL" TO 2012

TV SERIES MAY BECOME "SEQUEL" TO 2012

While it may not be unusual for producers to be discussing a sequel to a blockbuster movie even before the original is released, it is unusual for them to suggest that the sequel ought to be produced for television. But that is the case with the disaster movie 2012, which opens next week and concludes with the destruction of the Earth. Entertainment Weekly reported on its website Wednesday that Roland Emmerich, the director/producer of the movie, and Howard Gordon, its executive producer, are already developing a TV series, to be called 2013, that picks up where the new movie leaves off. Emmerich told the magazine, "I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats, and 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." EW reported that Gordon, who is also the exec producer of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, may have already entered into talks with ABC to develop the drama. Gordon suggested that it could serve as a replacement for Lost . At the end of the movie, he told the magazine, "there are some people who survive and the question is how will these survivors build a new world and what will it look like. That might make an interesting TV series."

05/11/2009