‘Oblivion’ Director And ‘Pacific Rim’ Screenwriter Team For Sci-Fi Show On AMC
AMC is already a favorite TV destination thanks to shows such asBreaking Bad, The Walking Dead, andMad Men, and now the channel is getting an intriguing new project that has the potential to draw more of a genre audience.Ballistic Cityis a “futuristic drama” directed and exec produced byOblivionandTron LegacydirectorJoseph Kosinskiand written and exec produced byPacific RimwriterTravis Beacham.
The show is being called “Blade RunnermeetsBattlestar Galactica” and takes place in the criminal population of a ship cruising through deep space.
Deadlinehas the info, and describes the plot:
The “Blade RunnermeetsBSG” description is amusing becauseBlade Runneris one of the big sci-fi films that Kosinski’sObliviondoesn’t heavily riff on. So he can get around to it here. TheBSGcomparison, meanwhile, seems like it could easily fit, given that this show will have to delve into the population of a crowded but very confined ship.
All that said, there’s plenty of potential here, and no reason to get too hung up on the early description. More original sci-fi on television always seems like a good thing, so we’ll be interested to see how this develops.
In addition, AMC is announcingAshland, fromAllison AndersandTerry Graham, which is set in the anti-Communist political environment of ’50s Hollywood. It features “Del, the destitute and desperate wife of a blacklisted screenwriter who moves the family to Ashland, a tiny mining town in Kentucky, where she must hide her family’s secrets and find a way to support her three children at the height of the Red Scare.”
