‘Event Horizon’ Series in Development at Amazon - "Where we're going, we don't need eyes to see - just a Prime account"

[Ahriman]

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Amazon and Paramount Television are developing a series adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi horror film “Event Horizon,” Variety has learned.

Adam Wingard is set to executive produce and direct the potential series. Wingard recently directed the film “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which is due out in theaters in March 2020. He has previously directed films like the recent “Blair Witch” reboot, “The Guest,” “You’re Next,” and the live-action version of “Death Note.” He also wrote and directed films like “Autoerotic” and “What Fun We Were Having.”

Wingard willl executive produce along with Larry Gordon, Lloyd Levin, and Jeremy Platt. Gordon and Levin both produced the film.

The film was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and written by Philip Eisner. The titled referred to a spaceship that disappeared after testing an experimental gravity drive capable of creating an artificial black hole that was meant to allow the ship to travel to distant points in the galaxy. A rescue crew and the gravity drive’s inventor are sent to investigate after the ship mysteriously reappears, only to discover that the ship traveled to a hellish dimension outside of the known universe that infects it with a sinister sentience, leading to multiple deaths.

It starred Laurence Fishburne as the captain of the rescue ship with Sam Neill playing the inventor of the gravity drive.

It was also recently announced that Amazon had boarded the Simon Pegg-Nick Frost series “Truth Seekers,” a comedy-horror series about paranormal investigators. The streamer is also currently prepping the horror anthology series “THEM” from Lena Waithe.

Among the many shows currently produce by Paramount Television is the Amazon series “Jack Ryan” as well as the Netflix shows “13 Reasons Why” and “The Haunting.”

Neither the director or the writer from the movie seem to be involved, and I honestly that guy Wingard sounds like a rather mediocre director, judging by his work... so I dunno.

Event Horizon is one of my all-time favorite science-fiction horror movies, I'm not keeping my hopes up at all.

The other thing I imagine is that they'll go full "liberate tutamet ex inferis", showing the full scope of what happens in the other dimension, but the movie was rather masterful in only showing you small glimpses of it, just enough to let your imagination run wild, which made it more horrifying in a way. My guess is that they're going to jump the shark and ruin that particular aspect of the "Event Horizon" mythos.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

This was one of my favorite movies in high school

 

[The Cunting Death]

If they up the sci-fi gore like the shit in the original movie that was sadly cut because of those bastards at the MPAA, I'll watch it.

And Wingard is extermely hit or miss. His work on the V/H/S series was pretty decent and I liked Your Next, but Death Note was awful and Blair Witch would have worked better if it was its own thing

 

[XYZpdq]

I totally love Hellraiser In Space, and its sets are super fucking great. I should go download a good HD copy of it.
I have no idea why you would want to make a series of it. Maybe an anthology of character studies, random ships encounter the Event Horizon at various points in time and space, and then they get Event Horizoned. Like the Loc Nar from Heavy Metal but a spaceship that runs off the Hellraiser box.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

I wish they would just clean up the cut footage and release a director's cut. I don't even give a shit if the cut footage is still rough, I've watched plenty of awful DVDs and VHSes.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

It’s pretty much early days 40K, they should just do that.

Spoiler

A ship tries to travel through the warp without a gellar field gets infested by daemons, comes back daemon possessed

 

[Schmeckel]

Liberate tute me ex inferis.

Man, I loved this flick. I can only hope that Netflix doesn't just absolutely drop the ball and make it a CW-worthy drama schlock with the occasional spooky moment.

 

[FaceOfTrueHorror]

Not against this, past few years have a number of good movies made into tv shows, as long as the team behind it is good and the budget is right got a feeling it could work well as a tv show.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Galaxy of Terror is a better execution of the core idea "People in space where their worst fears come to life." It also has a scene where a woman is raped to death by a giant maggot.

 

[Terminus Est]

Amazon will make it so woke that I won't need my eyes to see it.

 

[Miller]

I wonder how many hacks from Bad Robot will work on that show.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Interesting.

I like the movie as a sci/fi horror film.

But I first experienced it in a very, very weird way.

I woke up over my friend's house after smoking weed and doing mushrooms the night before. I'm in a chair, and the TV is on. In my half asleep state, I think it's an episode of star trek or something, you know, light scifi.

As I'm semi listening and semi sleeping, the crazy shit in the movie starts happening. As I wake up more fully it's the part with the dude with no eyes being all freaky and shit.

So I was really weirded out by the movie, and I think that's colored my impression of it. It's more a psychological thriller to me than it should be due to the circumstances I first saw it under.

 

[Nekoyama]

Honestly this could be a great show if its done right, just look at dead space that was heavily inspired by even horizon. If they dont make it a action filled shit show and work on world building and character development it could be great

 

[The Nothingness]

Can Sam Neill, in some capacity, be in it?

 

[mindlessobserver]

I really do love the 40k tie in fan theory. The original script writers have said it was never meant to be that but of course they cant say it was due to copyright! It will always be a 40k movie in my mind.

I am sure Amazon will manage to fuck it up.

 

[Terminus Est]

Can Sam Neill, in some capacity, be in it?

That would be pretty awesome

 

[UQ 770]

Other than the anthology angle I have to admit that I have no idea how the hell this is supposed to work. Event Horizon's backstory and setting are almost totally non-existent, the way the FTL drive works is inconsistently explained throughout the movie, even the WH 40K angle doesn't really gel with the movie since we don't see any literal demons, just psychological manifestations. The movie is really as simple as its premise, there's pretty much nothing for the writers to work with unless they want to take the August Dereleth route and just start making up new shit that probably won't work with the old shit.

Event Horizon reminds me a lot of Cube, actually. Big ideas, simple premise, the writers didn't know how they wanted to end it, critics divided upon release, cult classic. Pretty sure any sequels set in the same universe are gonna go the way of Cube's sequels.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Other than the anthology angle I have to admit that I have no idea how the hell this is supposed to work. Event Horizon's backstory and setting are almost totally non-existent, the way the FTL drive works is inconsistently explained throughout the movie, even the WH 40K angle doesn't really gel with the movie since we don't see any literal demons, just psychological manifestations. The movie is really as simple as its premise, there's pretty much nothing for the writers to work with unless they want to take the August Dereleth route and just start making up new shit that probably won't work with the old shit.

Event Horizon reminds me a lot of Cube, actually. Big ideas, simple premise, the writers didn't know how they wanted to end it, critics divided upon release, cult classic. Pretty sure any sequels set in the same universe are gonna go the way of Cube's sequels.

The thing with 40k Daemon Ships is that the ship itself is the Daemon. Its like a warp tainted weapon, its alive and making its crew go crazy. You don't see any Daemons, because the ship itself is one.

Its the best 40k movie ever made. Amazon will fuck this up though.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I could see this as a mini-series. If they don't go for the gore than it's pointless because that was the only mild plus side to the movie aside from Sam Neil (who was underused). Like I said, Galaxy of Terror is a better execution of the same idea.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Other than the anthology angle I have to admit that I have no idea how the hell this is supposed to work. Event Horizon's backstory and setting are almost totally non-existent, the way the FTL drive works is inconsistently explained throughout the movie, even the WH 40K angle doesn't really gel with the movie since we don't see any literal demons, just psychological manifestations. The movie is really as simple as its premise, there's pretty much nothing for the writers to work with unless they want to take the August Dereleth route and just start making up new shit that probably won't work with the old shit.

Event Horizon reminds me a lot of Cube, actually. Big ideas, simple premise, the writers didn't know how they wanted to end it, critics divided upon release, cult classic. Pretty sure any sequels set in the same universe are gonna go the way of Cube's sequels.

The 40k angle works because the warp demons are literally psychic entities that can only manifest if a direct link to the warp is present. Which they do in the movie incidentally. Whenever the doctor has his visions they show the warp drive portle starting up and opening. Plus his actions at the end were pretty typical behavior for someone high on Khorne making blood sacrifices. All he needed to do was call for skulls for the skull throne at that point.