Emmerich making 2012 TV show spin-off. (2013 lol) "A bit like LOST."

[Regulus Tera]

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...hooNewscrawler

spoilers for the movie within

Originally Posted by MTV

Let's say you weren't one of the millions of people who showed up to see the end-of-times demolition-fest "2012" over the weekend, contributing to its $225 million global box-office haul. First of all, what's wrong with you? That flick is kind of amazing! Second, you should stop reading now because everything that follows explodes with SPOILERS.

"2012" ends with John Cusack, his family and a couple hundred thousand other survivors on a series of high-tech floating arks they've boarded to avoid the earthquakes and tsunamis that consume the planet. As the weather settles down and the clouds begin to clear, the arks set sail for the only remaining land mass still above water, the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. What will happen when they arrive?

That's a question director Roland Emmerich plans to answer in a new "2012" TV spin-off that will pick up in 2013, after the ships have reached Africa.

"It's a little bit like 'Lost,' " he explained in a recent interview with MTV News. "I kind of said, 'This would make an interesting TV show.' At the end of the movie — I don't want to give it away — but they find one continent that's left and they go there. I'm so interested in what will happen, because naturally on this continent there are survivors. What will they say when these arks show up?"

Don't expect to see Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton or any of the other stars from "2012" in the TV series. The small-screen cast, Emmerich said, will be a "whole new set of people," some plucked from the arks and those who survived in Africa (who never appeared in the movie). Entertainment Weekly recently reported that the show is being shopped to "Lost" home ABC, but the network refused to comment on the potential series.

If the show is anything like "Lost," the survivors and the original inhabitants are not likely to get along. As Emmerich put it, "It's this concept of, everybody thinks the future will be all pride- and conflict-free, and it isn't."

I loved the movie. I hated LOST. WHAT WILL I DO

[bluestarultor]

You can stick with the movie. Trying to make a TV series of any sort with that kind of thing as the base will never result in anything but a steaming pile unless you *gasp* drastically change it to fit the format, thereby either alienating what fans of the original expect, regardless of quality, or suffer from not changing it nearly enough and ending up with something that simply doesn't work.

This is why I hate when people complain about stuff getting changed in media ports. If you don't, you end up with a crappy product. You probably still will, anyway, but at least as much as the fans bitch, the common masses will at least call it passable.



Edit: Sorry, that was unnecessary. *gets off soap box*

What I mean is that there's no way this is going to be anything like the movie, so by the logic of the bitching fans, it will be crap for changing too much. It will probably still be crap, inasmuch as Lost is crap, but there will invariably be fans of it who see it based on its own merits.

[Archbio]

I loved the movie. I hated LOST.

Holy crap.

[BloodyMage]

I haven't seen the movie, but I like Lost (present tense guys, Lost is actually still running.) I expect though that this Tv series will be about as much like Lost as Lost is like survivor. It's going to be a bunch of people stranded in a certain place together, what happens from then out will probably be very different and story telling techniques may not be the same at all. So even though I haven't seen the film, I don't think a comparison to Lost is any reason to disregard a TV show before it's even begun. I doubt it'll be all that similar to Lost any more than I've already stated, so it's not really a reason to not give it a shot if you liked the movie.

[Mesden]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

I loved the movie. I hated LOST. WHAT WILL I DO

I honestly just don't understand this.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Sorry, that was unnecessary. *gets off soap box*

Yes, it was. My favorite part was how you went, "Sorry for going off topic to talk about this and I'll stop but wait let me talk about it some more!"

Honestly, I couldn't give half a fuck about this show because I almost never watch actual television, instead sticking to my computer, I feel safe in my assumption that the movie sucks, and feel even safer in my assumption that this series will suck.

[Regulus Tera]

I like 2012 for the same reason a bunch of you couldn't stop singing praises to the Transformers movies. Whereas Lost is a bunch of manipulative twist after twist without any direction whatsoever that started promising and ended underdelivering. At least 2012 was always honest about what it wanted to be -disaster porn.

[Marc v4.0]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

I like 2012 for the same reason a bunch of you couldn't stop singing praises to the Transformers movies.

Peter Cullen?

[Archbio]

At least 2012 was always honest about what it wanted to be -disaster porn.

The day I'm going to intentionally vomit in someone's pool I'm going to be real honest about it, so maybe I'll get paid eight to twelve dollars for it.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

I like 2012 for the same reason a bunch of you couldn't stop singing praises to the Transformers movies. At least 2012 was always honest about what it wanted to be -disaster porn.

I'd take this statement more seriously if you didn't hate Needless. Instead it just sounds like a bad excuse.