Frequency is getting the reboot treatment by NBC, which is remaking the story of time traveling radio signals into a TV series.
Is it just us, or have television networks all of a sudden decided that movies from about 10 to 20 years ago are the perfect age for “rebooting” as serialized fiction? That certainly appears to be the case for NBC, which has just revealed its plans to make Frequency into a TV series.
It has broken that NBC is making a “character-driven” drama that adapts the 2000 film of the same name, which starred Jim Caviezel and Dennis Quaid, as an hour-long weekly program.
Set to be adapted for the small screen by Jeremy Carver (Supernatural), the series will follow the conceit of the 2000 film’s screenplay, penned by Toby Emmerich. In that original film, a young NYPD detective (Caviezel) comes into contact with his long-dead father via an old CB radio. This is especially ominous as the younger man realizes that their radio connection is linked by 30 years to the day—and his father’s firefighting death anniversary is later that week.
Frequency will be executive produced by Emmerich and Carver, as well as John Rickard, as well as Lin Pictures’ Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz.
As The Hollywood Reporter helpfully reminds us, this only adds to the long list of movies getting the television “reboot” treatment this upcoming pilot season, including, Rush Hour, Big, Minority Report, Limitless, Hitch, and The Illusionist, amongst others. If only we could find a CB radio that let us go back in time 20 years to talk to Hollywood filmmakers then. We could warn them!
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