12 MONKEYS Goes to Series on Syfy
Syfy announced that they have ordered a 12-episode series version of 12 Monkeys, based on the 1995 Universal Pictures movie directed by Terry Gilliam. Originally starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, the film is a time travel/race against the clock scenario that made several people aware of Pitt for the first time.
The new series will star Aaron Stanford (Nikita, X-Men: The Last Stand, X2), Amanda Schull (Suits, Pretty Little Liars), Noah Bean (Nikita, Damages) and Kirk Acevedo (Fringe), and will follow a time traveler (Stanford) from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race.
Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven (who produced the original 12 Monkeys along with American Hustle, Man of Steel, The Dark Knight Trilogy) and Richard Suckle (American Hustle, The International), will Executive Produce. Jake Kurily will serve as Atlas’s executive on the series. Terry Matalas & Travis Fickett (Nikita), writers of the pilot, will serve as Co-Executive Producers with Natalie Chaidez (In Plain Sight, V, Heroes) as Executive Producer/Showrunner. Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights) directed and served as Executive Producer on the pilot.
The new series bows on Syfy in January 2015.
