Deadline reports that AMC – the TV network behind the critically acclaimed horror series The Walking Dead – is to branch out into the sci-fi genre with Thunderstruck, “an hour-long UFO project” from executive producers Paul Boardman, Scott Derrickson and David Eick.
Boardman and Derrickson will write the drama, which, according to Deadline, is “about powerful and enigmatic entities that begin appearing all over the world.” Of special note is the story’s geographical setting, which no doubt will ring a bell with students of UFO history... Deadline continues:
“After one shows up in the town of Great Falls, Montana, the local citizens must grapple with the dramatic effects and growing mystery of repeated visitations.”
Thunderstruck will be directed by Derrickson, whose 2005 horror The Exorcism of Emily Rose was considerably better than his dead-on-arrival remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). Production will likely commence sometime in 2012.
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