Leigh Whannell’s Sci-Fi Action Thriller UPGRADE is Getting a Sequel Series!
Hot damn! Leigh Whannell’s 2018 Blumhouse sci-fi thriller Upgrade is getting a sequel series! I loved the first movie and I was hoping that we’d see a sequel one day, so the fact that we are getting that sequel in the form of a series it pretty freakin’ cool.
The series is being co-created and executive produced by Whannell and Tim Walsh (Treadstone) who will serve as showrunner. Whannell, who most recently helmed Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man, is set to direct.
The story for the film follows Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green), who is paralyzed after a brutal mugging and his wife was killed. A billionaire inventor offers Trace a cure, an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility, skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
The Upgrade series picks up “a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host – imagining a world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity.”
Blumhouse Television and UCP are collaborating on the adaptation, and writer’s room has been set up for the series. Whannell and Walsh are joined by writer-producers Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of Blumhouse TV’s USA Network horror series The Purge.
I can’t wait to see what comes of this series!
Source: Deadline