2013 won't be heading to TV anytime soon
Here's what he had to say about the no defunct concept:
It has been reported that you plan on turning 2012 into a television series. Where does production on that stand at this point in time?
Roland Emmerich: We tried to do that. But the TV people soon realized what we really wanted to do with the concept. They said, "You cannot do this on television." So I said, "Let's not do it. It was just too big for TV. What we wanted to do."
So that TV show is dead in the water?
Roland Emmerich: It's not totally dead. Mark Gordon is still trying to come up with an idea on how to make it cheaper. I don't think it will happen. I had a certain vision. We realized what kind of compromises we were going to have to make. Because of that, I said, "No thank you."
Is there any plan to turn that idea into a feature film?
Roland Emmerich: No, no, no. It was not a sequel. It was a story you could only tell once. There was no sequel to Noah's Ark. It would have been a great TV show. Because it would have dealt with the facts of arriving in Africa. We would have seen what happened had Cape Town survived. Those people already living there would be majorly pissed. Because the ships didn't take them. There was this whole political edge to it. It would have been a very political TV show. It had such big themes. It was about reaching for the stars. There was an economic reality that kept it from becoming a reality. We didn't want to compromise. We said, "Let's not do it."
2012 arrives on DVD and Blu-ray March 2nd, 2010.
2012 was released November 13th, 2009 and stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich.
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TheMime
they will either make or break it. It's all up to how they plan this through.
3 years agoby @themimeFlag
Mutant
I was hoping that this would be better as a mini series before any future plans for a TV series. Four to Five episode thing to test the ground.
Any future TV series should try this way out before going into it blindly. Invasion didn't do that nor half a dozen shows, once a year a set of a handful of episodes until any series gets its legs.
I still think that the Star trek franchise could have been saved this way. I'm happy that J.J did his version.
3 years agoby @zenderFlag
kylenin51
"The series was said to be similar in theme to ABC's Lost ..."
With all that's happened on that series, I hardly think that anything can be similar to "Lost". It's just too varied. And I hated it when people referred to new shows in the past (like "Heroes" and "Invasion") as "Lost" clones, when they had nothing in common.
3 years agoby @kylenin51Flag
Cripple
I was pretty interested in seeing a tv show of this. Hope they can work it out.
3 years agoby @crippleFlag
Err
hmm... no, i don't care.
sounds like it could have been a decent show, but i won't be losing any sleep over this.
3 years agoby @err2005Flag