Syfy Buys Action Sci-Fi Drama Spec

COMMENTS (14)

• This is a rip-off of Rian Johnson’s LOOPER. That’s just sick and sad, SyFy.

  Comment by flixnut — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 5:27am PST  Reply to this post

  • No it isn’t.Looper is about a guy in the present who kills people sent back in time by the mob.He realizes his current target is his future self and lets him get away.

    This project is about a soldier who travels to the present to recruit his younger self in order to save the world.

    They both share the concept of time travel and meeting one’s past/future self(as do several other projects), but the stories are completely different.

    Comment by renner — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 9:49am PST  Reply to this post

• Looking forward to this. Liked his work on SOA

  Comment by Chet — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 7:08am PST  Reply to this post

• Can not wait for covert affairs season 3

  Comment by Joe — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 7:10am PST  Reply to this post

• Interesting idea, but it’s also very similar to Robert Kirkman’s recent comic book series, The Infinite.It’s about a soldier in his 40′s who must travel back in time and recruit younger versions of his army(including his 20 year old self) in order to save the world from Imperius, an enemy that has ravaged the future/his present.

  I wonder if they’ll possibly be some litigation involved in this.While time travel stories are very common, you rarely, if ever have one where a character actually teams up with his future or past self.And both projects are about military groups with high-tech weapons.

  I honestly would like to see this show because I really like that concept.Hope there are no bumps in the role.

  Comment by tanner — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 7:15am PST  Reply to this post

• This sounds interesting, but somewhat similar to Terminator in terms of whether everything occurs along a straight line or if you can go back in time and alter your life. Speaking of which, Syfy should’ve picked up that show after FOX canceled it.

  Comment by Sareeta — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 7:31am PST  Reply to this post

• This seems like something that will need a really good budget to produce a quality execution. So is SyFY going to be willing to spend more money that it isn’t spending on other shows.

  Comment by George — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 8:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Yeah clearly Barry J and SyFy’s execs are clueless about the current comic book scene — this is exactly like Robert Kirkman’s THE INFINITE (which us an awful book but at least you can say it’s from the creator of THE WALKING DEAD).

  Comment by INterested Observer — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 8:41am PST  Reply to this post

• It’s truly unfair to call something a rip-off when it’s just the reality of developing projects. This writer could have been forty pages into his when he heard the other project sold with a similar concept. Just the way it is.

  Comment by Frank — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 9:04am PST  Reply to this post

• Let’s just celebrate the fact that SyFy is looking to add another science fiction show, instead of crap like WWE Smackdown, Hollywood Treasure, or the new uggghhhh, Total Blackout.

  Comment by Bob — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 10:23am PST  Reply to this post

• This sounds great to me. I hope Sy-Fy goes with the pilot and see the final result. Should be great

  Comment by Bob — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 11:53am PST  Reply to this post

• I’ll second that — SyFy buying anything original is a major coup. Let’s see if they can turn it around…

  Comment by Marcy May MouthOff — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 11:56am PST  Reply to this post

• It’s a very cool script and really isn’t a ripoff of any of these things. One vague logline does not capture what the series is. Happy for Brett, who’s a good writer and a good guy.

  Comment by JDoe — Friday February 17, 2012 @ 6:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• Syfy will do what they always do, spend money on the pilot then slash the budget on the series and blam viewership when they cancel it for dismal ratings.

  Comment by Aleric — Monday February 20, 2012 @ 11:34am PST  Reply to this post