Just how do you adapt
Terry Gilliam's mind-bending, time-hopping 1995 movie
12 Monkeys into a TV series?
That's the burning question that
Syfy hopes to answer this television season as it re-imagines the science fiction thriller which originally starred
Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and
Brad Pitt (earning the latter a
Golden Globe win and an
Oscar nomination).
The thirteen-episode series will follow the general premise of the dystopian future movie, a man called
'Cole' (played by
Aaron Stanford) is sent back into the past to prevent a terrorist group,
The Army of the Twelve Monkeys, releasing a virus which decimates the world's population, but there will be several significant differences (although you'll have to watch to discover what they all are, although chief amongst them is that
Pitt's original crazy role will now be played by a woman,
Emily Hampshire).
With the recent, and still ongoing,
Ebola epidemic in
West Africa, this visual of a man in a surgical mask and the threat of a pandemic virus is more poignant than ever. The new
12 Monkeys logo on the mask also has that nice hazardous, foreboding feel to it too.
These billboards for the
12 Monkeys TV remake were first spied along
Sunset Boulevard in
West Hollywood on January 6, 2015, then the next day at the intersection of
Melrose and
Highland Avenues.
For other examples of TV shows inspired by a movie, be sure to check out these
billboards for Hannibal,
billboards for Sleepy Hollow and these
Teen Wolf billboards.
It's not the first movie to be adapted for television, and we're sure it won't be the last either.
Let's hope that when we watch this reimagining we won't want to
'unmake history' as if it had never happened.
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