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Lots of Re-Animator news this week.
Fango is reporting that a weekly syndicated TV show is in the works and has the pictures and story breakdown to prove it.
William Butler's Transition Films is spearheading the project and Fango talked to him, read on:
I was actually brought on board by Meredith Red, who is the
show's main creator and executive producer, Butler tells Fango. I am
one of the many writers and producers on the show. We are talking to
some high-profile directors to do the pilot, including Stuart Gordon.
John Vulich [who created the FX for Butler’s FURNACE] is also involved.
When
you read the outline below, you'll notice that HERBERT
WEST RE-ANIMATOR: THE SERIES does not duplicate the action of
RE-ANIMATOR's copyrighted cinematic trilogy, but instead serves as more
of a prequel to Lovecraft's established literary West mythos. The main
thing we want to convey is that the series focuses far more on all of the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Butler reveals. It’s much more of a monster du jour
show rather than just the RE-ANIMATOR storyline, which will be the B
plot. The filmmaker could provide no further details on the images
slipped to Fango, but this site will deliver additional details on
HERBERT WEST RE-ANIMATOR: THE SERIES very soon.
What BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER was for Gothic storytelling, HERBERT WEST: RE-ANIMATOR will be for sci-fi and horror.
He’s a teenage Dr. Frankenstein in a modern-day younger world, filled with sometimes terrifying scientific intrigue.
Fall—Freshman Year—Miskatonic University
The
campus is finally reopening after 10 years of closure. It seems years
ago, a student suddenly possessed with an uncontrollable rage broke out
into a violent murder spree that left half the campus up in flames.
Officials never found out just what filled the young man with the
desire to kill so many.
Herbert West, a dark and mysterious
young man, arrives on campus, instantly shining as a brilliant young
student and the object of many of his female schoolmates’ desires.
We
soon learn that along with his medical school, Herbert also has a
secret passion that he relentlessly is pursuing. Late at night when
everyone else is gone, Herbert conducts groundbreaking experiments…to
learn the secret of life itself…to unlock the code that will allow him
to reanimate the dead.
Charismatic, sexy and dangerous,
Herbert's obsessions eventually draw his young colleagues, friends and
lovers into his dark world. They will all share in the rewards and
consequences of meddling with things that man was not meant to all the
while dealing with their own growing relationships and unfolding
subsequent storylines inspired by the fantastic works of H.P Lovecraft.
Soon,
the group of friends discovers that their campus is also becoming an
increasing hot spot for scientific and sometimes horrific phenomenon.
It’s as if the place is becoming a portal for the unknown.
Could it be that Herbert's secret experiments are the cause of these occurrences…or is it something much more indescribable?
Episode
by episode, Herbert West and his newfound schoolmates struggle to
unlock the secret to life as well as the unknown oddities that they
will discover along their journey.
Alliances will be formed and broken forbidden relationships will develop and complicate.
Some
will not survive and others will wish they hadn't. HERBERT
WEST RE-ANIMATOR is a fresh, contemporary take on all of H.P.
Lovecraft's immortal horror works.
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