Independence Day and Stargate Producer Lands New Syfy Series

What occurs when a visit into house to save lots of humanity wants saving itself? Dean Devlin goes to tell us. The Syfy Network has simply picked up a brand new present referred to as The Ark from the producer of mega sci-fi hits equivalent to Independence Day, Stargate, and Universal Soldier.

Set 100 years sooner or later, The Ark is about a gaggle of people who set off to colonize one other planet on a ship referred to as Ark One. On the way in which, the ship has a large catastrophe and the few remaining survivors should preserve themselves alive in the event that they need to save all of humanity. Devlin, who began his profession by writing and producing the aforementioned movies with Roland Emmerich, will write the sequence and function co-showrunner with Jonathan Glassner. Glassner famously turned Devlin and Emmerich’s Stargate into the vastly profitable Stargate SG-1. “I’m so excited to have the opportunity to partner with Syfy again and can’t think of a better collaborator than Jonathan Glassner to bring this series to life,” Devlin stated in an announcement to Variety.

Syfy has been on a little bit of a run recently, experiencing success with new reveals like Resident Alien and Chucky—and the community sees The Ark as extra of the identical. “The Ark is a perfect fit for Syfy audiences and we know fans will gravitate to this heart-racing story from Dean Devlin, one of the most accomplished and respected sci-fi writers working today,” Lisa Katz, president of scripted content material for NBCU Entertainment and Streaming, stated. “With the recent success of both Resident Alien and Chucky, the network is home to several of the most creative storytellers working in all of television.”

To begin, Syfy has order 12 episodes of the present, although you’d think about Devlin and Glassner would hope for extra. The story’s primary set-up, nevertheless, seems like a terrific place to start out: a crew of people who thought they had been going to repopulate one other world for humanity, now struggling to survive to actually have a likelihood at that? It’s nearly like house Lost and perhaps attending to the planet and seeing how that works is the season-finale hatch.

Are you down for a brand new Devlin present? Have you watched any of his different TV initiatives like Leverage, The Librarians, or The Outpost?

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