Post by KNOWTHIS on Oct 4, 2010 17:39:23 GMT -5
Trent Reznor to make TV series based on Nine Inch Nails album
"It's exciting," Reznor said in an interview with the LA Times. "I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing [but] ... it's very much alive and incubating at the moment." The proposed project is a co-production between HBO and BBC Worldwide.
Year Zero, NIN's sixth studio album, presented a grim sci-fi portait of the year 2022, after a nuclear war between the US and Iran and the ascent of an American "Bureau of Morality". The LP was accompanied by an expansive online game and, eventually, a remix album. At the time, Reznor called it "the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist".
In a sense, that movie may yet come to exist. Reznor has partnered with Daniel Knauf, creator of the imaginative (and prematurely cancelled) TV series Carnivale, plus producers Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth) and Kevin Kelly Brown (Roswell). "It's been an interesting collaborative effort but I've learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace," Reznor said. "It cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we're writing drafts back and forth."
Describing a possible TV series in 2008, Reznor said it would "ideally" run for two years. "It's the most exciting thing on the horizon," he said then. "It's the thing that when I wake up in the morning it makes me say, 'God it would be cool if that happened.'"
"It's exciting," Reznor said in an interview with the LA Times. "I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing [but] ... it's very much alive and incubating at the moment." The proposed project is a co-production between HBO and BBC Worldwide.
Year Zero, NIN's sixth studio album, presented a grim sci-fi portait of the year 2022, after a nuclear war between the US and Iran and the ascent of an American "Bureau of Morality". The LP was accompanied by an expansive online game and, eventually, a remix album. At the time, Reznor called it "the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist".
In a sense, that movie may yet come to exist. Reznor has partnered with Daniel Knauf, creator of the imaginative (and prematurely cancelled) TV series Carnivale, plus producers Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction, An Inconvenient Truth) and Kevin Kelly Brown (Roswell). "It's been an interesting collaborative effort but I've learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace," Reznor said. "It cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we're writing drafts back and forth."
Describing a possible TV series in 2008, Reznor said it would "ideally" run for two years. "It's the most exciting thing on the horizon," he said then. "It's the thing that when I wake up in the morning it makes me say, 'God it would be cool if that happened.'"