If the stars align correctly then about a year from now you could be watching the first episode of a Source Code television series.
Of course, this isn't the first time that a movie's premise has been used to launch a weekly TV series, or even a TV series about government employees using time travel to save innocent lives. But Duncan Jones' Source Code movie does have the benefit of being well-received by movie critics and modestly successful in its theatrical run, so some early trail-blazing has been done to get word out about the property.
It's Gray's Anatomy/Criminal Minds producer Mark Gordon who is developing the Source Code TV show for CBS. Steve Maeda, a writer on ABC's Lost and Fox's Lie to Me, is writing the pilot episode. According to the source that broke the story, the Source Code TV show follows the film's premise: three government agents work for a secret division which allows them to send the consciousness of a person back into another person's mind, to relive their last eight minutes of life. The agents can then use the knowledge that they learn to prevent a greater tragedy from happening, or to save other lives. Jake Gyllenhaal played the main character in the Source Code movie, and his mission was to learn the reason behind a fatal train crash so his team could prevent a larger explosion from happening in Chicago.
Having a Source Code show on the tube could envoke comparison to other similar TV action/adventures like the 1980s' Quantum Leap or the 1990's Seven Days, both of which used one man going back in time to make the world a better place.
"goofy like Quantum leap"?? "i could see this working" ??
Quantum Leap worked for many many seasons... what's wrong with that particular fomula (outside the fact that it's been used before and is not particularly original?) it's a decent formula that works for a long running series... so what if it was goofy... it was fun at times and serious in others, other times it was off the rails goofy, which is everything you need for a long show... but it aways worked...
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As long as they don't turn it into something goofy like Quantum Leap, I could see this working.
Really enjoyed the movie.