HBO has just landed the first TV series written by prolific producer J.J. Abrams since 2008’s Fringe, after a bidding war with Apple. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the premium cable network has handed out a straight-to-series order to the Westworld executive producer for sci-fi drama ‘Demimonde’, further expanding its relationship with Abrams.
The source notes that Abrams was impressed with what the premium cable network did with Westworld, making HBO the frontrunner for the series over deep-pocketed rival Apple. He has penned the script for Demimonde and will exec produce via his Warner Bros. Television-based Bad Robot Productions banner topper Ben Stephenson.
Shopped as a spec script, sources say the Abrams drama is about a family — consisting of a mother who works as a scientist, her husband and their young daughter — who all get into a terrible car crash. After the mother winds up in a coma, her daughter begins digging through her experiments in the basement and winds up being transported to another world amid a battle against a monstrous, oppressive force. Her father then follows her into this new world. HBO is only describing the series as “an epic and intimate sci-fi fantasy drama.”
Apple, which also aggressively pursued the project, has already picked up a space drama from Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore.
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Thank your lucky stars that Apple dodged Jar Jar Abrams after what he did to Star Trek and Star Wars.
yeah, because his movies do so poorly
Yeah shame on him for reviving two massive franchises into the billions of dollars……
Shame. If Apple won, this show might be worth watching.
Too bad HBO and Bell have decided that Canadians need to pay $30/month to watch the best HBO programming… Until it’s in the same price range as Amazon Prime, Netflix or the full HBO offering comes to CraveTV, no thanks.
Consumers last… sigh.
Crave is pricy as well, or can be. I use bell for internet, but man are they just pushing to get Netflix out of here so they can force crave on us. I just stream what I need. sure its a gray area but.. I don’t play their game
they had the cash, they should of bit higher, would of been worth it. especially if they are trying to bet their tv offerings off the ground.