Possible 2012 TV series in the works

Entertainment Weekly’s EW.com has learned that the team behind the upcoming disaster movie 2012 are planning a TV version of the apocalyptic story.

The 2012 movie will be released on the big screen on Nov. 13.

Director/producer Roland Emmerich confirmed to EW that there was “plenty to do in a TV show” and that 2012 executive producer Howard Gordon, an executive producer on TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice – would be involved.

“The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster,” Emmerich told EW. “It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (2012 writer/producer) Harold Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’”

“After the movie, there are some people who survive and the question is how will these survivors build a new world and what will it look like. That might make an interesting TV series,” Gordon said.

As if the movie trailer isn’t scary enough, a TV series is in the works? I will have to watch the movie to see if I can see this as a possibility — a possibility I’m interested in watching.