Showtime has opted to go on 4 in-development tv reveals, together with the deliberate Gattaca reboot from Homeland creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Gattaca reboot collection is now not transferring ahead on the Showtime. The identical may be stated for Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody’s Seasoned, which beforehand had a collection order on the Paramount Global-owned community. Showtime has additionally dropped two extra deliberate reveals: Split and Sweetness. Sony Pictures Television, which produces Gattaca and Sweetness, plans to buy each reveals to completely different retailers.
Why did Showtime go on Gattaca?
These revelations come after Paramount exec Chris McCarthy started overseeing Showtime final 12 months. McCarthy additionally oversees MTV, Comedy Central, the Paramount Network, giving him management of virtually all the corporate’s linear networks. Apparently, beneath McCarthy, Showtime is seeking to concentrate on IPs it owns, quite than licensed properties like Gattaca. Hence, why the community dropped the reboot collection from its slate.
Gattaca was initially a dystopian sci-fi movie starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol, it opened in theaters from Sony Pictures in October 1997. Sony was growing a future-set police procedural based mostly on Gattaca as of 2009, although the challenge by no means materialized. Niccol, in the meantime, went on to helm the 2011 movie In Time, starring Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake. Niccol described In Time as being a non secular successor to (or, in his phrases, the “bastard child” of) Gattaca.
Earlier this 12 months, information broke that Gordon and Gansa had teamed with Oscar-nominated screenwriter Craig Borten to develop a tv reboot of Gattaca. At the time, it was reported that the challenge was being eyed for a “sizable commitment” at Showtime. Furthermore, McCarthy — who’s reportedly an enormous fan of the unique movie — is claimed to have seen franchise potential.
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