Fox has given a series order to Minority Report, a TV series based on the Steven Spielberg film.
NewsFox's small-screen adaptation of Minority Report is now officially on the fall schedule.
The network announced cancellations on Friday for The Following and Backstrom, paving the way for a series order for the futuristic pre-crime drama.
Via TVLine:
Minority Report meanwhile picks up 10 years after the end of Pre-crime in DC, where one of the three Pre-cogs, Dash (Inside Llewyn Davis‘ Stark Sands) struggles to lead a “normal” human life, haunted as he is by visions of the future. But then Dash meets a detective (Deception‘s Meagan Good) who just may help him find a purpose to his gift.
Original story published on 9/8/2014:
Several weeks ago, news came that Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television was developing a new TV show based on Minority Report with a script by Max Borenstein (Godzilla). Now, it has definitely been confirmed since Fox had put a pilot commitment on the project with the aim of developing a potential series for next year.
Produced by 20th Century Fox TV and Paramount TV, the series is based on the Spielberg directed film of the same name. Minority Report was the well-received Spielberg actioner that starred Tom Cruise as a man possibly wrongfully accused. In actuality, he has been predicted to become a murderer by psychics used in future crimes. Indeed, Cruise’s protagonist was the lead officer of “PreCrime” until the precogs suggested that he would murder a man believed to have killed his son. The film was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick and earned more than $350 million worldwide. It also won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film of that year.
