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Gattaca to Spawn TV Series
/Film — ... We don’t know a lot about this project yet, but buried in a trade break about Denis Leary’s production shingle Apostle Films, which is developing a bunch of new shows to prepare for Rescue Me’s scheduled 2011 end point, there’s an interesting piece of detail. The company has bought the rights to Gattaca, Andrew Niccol’s 1997 sci-fi film, and will develop it as a television series. Variety specifically says this: The ...

GATTACA is getting a TV series Adaptation!?
GeekTyrant — ... to develop it in a one-hour police procedural set in the future. The Gattaca smallscreen adaptation will be written by Gil Grant and is being developed through Sony TV’s international division. It doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a TV remake of the movie, it sounds like it will take place from a different vantage pint.  I think it’s a great idea, and I can see the potential that it has. What do you all think about a Gattaca TV series? Source: Variety

A Fistful of News
Collider — ... The fantastic 1997 sci-fi film “Gattaca” may become a television series in the vein of “CSI”.  I don’t know how that works since the police would probably be the genetically-engineered humans while the interesting, true-born humans would be the ones hunted down. ...

Denis Leary's Company Ramping Up A TV Series Based On GATTACA!! And Writer Gil Grant Talks About It...
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — ... [image] other than I saw it at a shitty theater with a hot date I desperately wanted to score with, but didn't. Nonetheless, the movie developed quite a following subsequent to it's lackluster theatrical release - so the news that a TV series is being built around the world depicted in the film isn't terribly surprising (revealed HERE ). Gil Grant (a writer/producer on 24 and NCIS) is scripting the spinoff for Denis Leary's Apostle Films (who brought us RESCUE ME). He recently spoke with MTV about how he approached writer/director Andrew ...