Everything is becoming a TV show nowadays, but I would 100% watch a series based on Alex Proyas’ moody 1994 film Dark City.
After scoring a hit with his 1994 action film The Crow, director Alex Proyas spent the next four years dreaming up Dark City, a thrillingly original sci-fi film about a city where it’s always night, a group of mysterious creatures known only as “the Strangers,” and a man on the hunt for his own memories. It’s moody, tense, and the twists are so good that even over 20 years later I’m loathe to spoil them, but if you’ve never seen the movie consider queuing it up sometime, because it’s a trip.
And now, Bloody Disgusting reports that the movie is in the early stages of becoming a series! Proyas said as much during a Q&A at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival, where he was premiering a 20-minute short called Mask of the Evil Apparition.
“Dark City right now is really an intriguing one to me because we’re developing a series, a Dark City series,” Proyas told host Joe Lynch. “e’re in the very early stages but I’m having to reanalyze in order to construct a new story. I’m having to go back and kind of jog my memory as to what we actually did and what I think worked and what I think didn’t work and reevaluate my own film, so that’s been a very interesting experience as well, which I’ve not done before.”
So it sounds like things are very in utero with this show, but I can see a Dark City series working. There are a lot of tones to play with: you’ve got the horror bits, the sci-fi bits, the film noir bits…surely Netflix or HBO Max or someone would be interest in that. Maybe they could even get some of the original cast — which included Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland and William Hurt — to return.
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