It’s a rumor that’s been going around Nine Inch Nails fans for years and today … we have official confirmation. Trent Reznor spoke to the LA Times this week and officially confirmed the news that he is in development of a TV series based on the 2007 Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero. In a [...]
It’s a rumor that’s been going around Nine Inch Nails fans for years and today … we have official confirmation. Trent Reznor spoke to the LA Times this week and officially confirmed the news that he is in development of a TV series based on the 2007 Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero. In a nutshell, Year Zero is an album themed around the idea that a future America is enslaved by a government led fundamentalist theocracy and the small groups of freedom fighters rallying against the system. As I understand it, the Year Zero TV series will be set in that future America, circa 2022, and will tell that story on the small screen:
Trent Reznor says HBO and BBC America are moving forward with the development of “Year Zero,” the grim sci-fi epic that Reznor has chronicled in his music as well as in a celebrated Alternate Reality Game (ARG). “We are in pre-production with HBO and BBC America to do a miniseries,” Reznor said Monday. “It’s exciting. I probably shouldn’t say too much about it except that I understand that there’s a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. It’s been an interesting and very educational process and it cleared the HBO hurdle a few months ago and now we’re writing drafts back and forth. So it’s very much alive and incubating at the moment.” Reznor is working with the team of Lawrence Bender, best known for producing Quentin Tarantino films such as “Pulp Fiction,” “Inglourious Basterds” and ”Reservoir Dogs“ as well as the documentaries “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Countdown to Zero,” and Kevin Kelly Brown, who was executive producer on “Roswell.“ “BBC America was the first to show interest and came on as the studio,” Reznor explained. “Our writer is Daniel Knauf from ‘Carnivàle’ and he’s busy with pages right now and revising the overall world Bible. It’s been an interesting collaborative effort but I’ve learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace.”
This is the effing best news ever. Year Zero is among my fave NIN albums, particularly because the thematic structure of the album is so entertaining. When the album was released, the accompanying Alternate Reality Game that existed online was almost as entertaining as the album was. I’ve always felt that the world of Year Zero would make great fodder for expansion … a TV series that is being made in conjunction with BBC America and HBO is sure to remain as true as possible to Reznor‘s original vision. I’m certain that TR and his creative partner Rob Sheridan are planning on being as involved in the process as possible … which means that we are prolly gonna get an amazing new TV series. It’s impossible to know when exactly we might expect the Year Zero series to debut but the fact that the show is now in pre-production is a very positive sign. I am quite confident that these brilliant minds will put together a series that will not only satisfy NIN fans but will satisfy sci-fi fans overall. It’s like a dream come true … and I cannot wait to hear more!
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