{"id":15955,"date":"2011-07-24T13:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=15955"},"modified":"2011-07-24T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:18:19","slug":"scanners-tv-series-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/scanners-tv-series-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanners TV series in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15957\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/scanners-tv-series-in-development\/attachment\/scanners\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15957\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"scanners\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scanners-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scanners-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scanners-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scanners-616x487.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scanners.jpg 1332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A proposed Scanners reboot, scripted by<em> The Dark Knight Rises<\/em>&#8216; David S Goyer, has fallen by the wayside, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/07\/dimension-to-develop-scanners-tv-series\/\">but Deadline has revealed<\/a> that David Cronenberg&#8217;s classic sci-fi schlock fest is being revisited as a TV series under the helm of <em>Switchblade Romance<\/em> and<em> The Hills Have Eyes<\/em> director Alexandre Aja.<\/p>\n<p>Given a mandate to &#8216;develop&#8217; the project, Aja may also be directing the pilot, with Rene Malo, <em>Monster<\/em>\/<em>Wishmaster<\/em>&#8216;s Clark Peterson and original <em>Scanners <\/em>producer Pierre David as executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror&#8217;s rising star Alexandre Aja takes charge of a classic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":15957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[2044,312,2043],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/scanners.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}