Matrix and Babylon 5 Creators to Make New Netflix Sci-Fi Series
By Graeme McMillan
Wired.com
03.27.13 4:53 PM
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/netflix-sense8-wachowski/
For months now, it’s been an open secret that Andy and Lana Wachowski,
the directorial siblings best known for their work on The Matrix trilogy
and Cloud Atlas, were working on a high-concept science fiction
television series called Sense8 with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael
Straczynski (there was even a Variety story about it). But the project’s
official announcement today added an interesting new twist: It’s not
actually a television series at all: It’s a 10-part series that will
debut on Netflix Instant late next year.
Sense8 is being described by Netflix as “a gripping global tale of minds
linked and souls hunted,” created and developed by the Wachowskis
themselves, who reportedly wrote the first three scripts for the series
on spec because they were so excited about the concept. The Wachowskis
will act as joint showrunners on the series with Straczynski, who is
co-producing the series through his recently created Studio JMS
production house, and are reportedly looking to direct multiple episodes
if their schedules permit.
Studio JMS will co-produce the show with Georgeville TV. When news of
the project initially emerged last year, Georgeville’s Marc Rosen said
the show was “the kind of project that our company was set up to produce
— an idea so big in size and scale that it doesn’t make sense to try it
as a pilot. The only way to let the filmmakers realize their vision on
something like this is to do multiple episodes.”
“We’re excited to work with Netflix and Georgeville Television on this
project, and we’ve wanted to work with Joe Straczynski for years,
chiefly due to the fact his name is harder to pronounce than ours, but
also because we share a love of genre and all things nerdy,” the
Wachowskis said in a statement accompanying the show’s announcement.
They went on to hint what Sense8 is about, saying that “several years
ago, we had a late-night conversation about the ways technology
simultaneously unites and divides us, and out of that paradox Sense8 was
born.”
Sense8 is due to debut on Netflix in late 2014.
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