The Sector - Blade Runner, the TV series?

[Temis the Vorta]

This seems familiar but I can't find a thread on it. Maybe I'm thinking of the Blade Runner remake discussion.

Sci-fi action-crime series The Sector, from Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Prods and Germany’s Tandem Communications, is no longer set up at Cinemax. There is talk about Discovery’s Science (formerly Science Channel) possibly picking up the action-crime series in the vein of Blade Runner and District 9 that centers on a commander of a paramilitary unit who pursues a dangerous new race of genetically-enhanced humans.

Too bad it's in trouble because it sounds like it could be cool. I hope Discovery Science does pick it up, even tho I'll have to Netflix it either way. Anyway it's nice to see Cinemax following Starz lead into developing scripted TV series, even if none of their current offerings sound interesting. The more the merrier, sooner or later they might stumble on something good.

EDIT: Looks like I renamed the series on my own initiative. Probably because The Sector is too boring to bother typing. I'll ask a mod to correct it.

 

[JD]

Hmm, are the Scotts actually involved with this, or is it just their company?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

The update.
A pilot rewrite is not good.
Cinemax getting into scripted is great though as they are HBOs little brother.
Ridley scotts company did that gettysburg tv movie or was that a miniseries. Id still like to see a scifi series from them though.

update

But now Cinemax, perhaps deciding to streamline its programming surge, has unceremoniously dropped The Sector, and Scott Free is reportedly looking for a script doctor to reshape the Benays' pilot teleplay for a new buyer. Many eyebrows were raised when Deadline Hollywood reported that one potential white knight for the title might be Science, one of the Discovery channels and a recent arrival on the sci-fi fan's peripheral vision for having picked up Firefly.

Science's browsing the scripted sci-fi series aisle could signal an interest in broadening its focus beyond the documentary, and in so doing boosting its overall presence in the same way that Reelz did when it picked up another abandoned project, The Kennedys.

http://scifi.about.com/b/2011/09/05/cinemax-drops-sci-fi-drama-will-science-rescue-it.htm?rd=1

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ridley scotts company did that gettysburg tv movie or was that a miniseries.

Just one episode that I saw, but it was very good. They should do a whole Civil War miniseries like that.

 

[theenglish]

I am sure that this series would be good, but I am tired of remaking old movies and series. Why not just come up with a new idea. There are plenty of dystopian alternate realities out there in imagination world.

 

[Harvey]

The article that I'm reading doesn't say anything about it being a remake of Blade Runner, simply that the movie is an influence upon it (District 9 is also cited as an influence).

 

[JD]

^Yeah, the quote just says "in vein of", so it's similar to, but not based on, the movies mentioned.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Wow! From Skinemax to Discovery Science Channel? Now that's range.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I am sure that this series would be good, but I am tired of remaking old movies and series. Why not just come up with a new idea. There are plenty of dystopian alternate realities out there in imagination world.

Trent Reznor is doing his best to accommodate your wishes. I hope Year Zero does end up getting made eventually, could be great.