David Cronenberg’s classic body horror Scanners is set to become a TV series on HBO.
Scanners told of a small group of super-powered people with a range of psychic, telepathic and telekenetic power.
One faction of scanners, as these people were labelled, was led by a power-mad man named Revok, played by Michael Ironside, who aims to take over the world. At the same time, a private security firm recruits its own scanners to stop him for its own, possibly shady, reasons.
The series is described as a visceral thriller set in the mind-bending world of Cronenberg’s film. It will focus on two women living on the fringes of modern society who are pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers and thus must learn to work together to topple a vast conspiracy determined to bring them to heel.
Cronenberg, who also wrote Scanners, will act as executive producer along with Michael Ellenberg, Lindsey Springer of Media Res Studio, Meredith Duff, and Sarah Sullivan of Wayward Films.
Scanners is being developed by showrunner William Bridges with Yann Demange directing.
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