Sequel Series Based on the 80s Sci-Fi Flick D.A.R.Y.L. Coming to Cable This Fall Starring Tony Hale
Remember the 80s movie D.A.R.Y.L. about the young boy who turned out to be a top-secret, military-created robot with superhuman abilities? Well, TBS and TNT parent company Turner does, and they think the story is recognizable enough to create a sequel series to the film. Tony Hale, best known for his comedic roles in Arrested Development, Veep, and as the voice of Forky in Toy Story 4, has signed on to play the aged robot in the series, with less direction and more humor than the original, it looks like.
Here’s the synopsis for the series:
A half-hour comedy that picks up where Paramount’s 1985 feature left off. What if a top-secret, 10-year-old human weapon grew up to be a 44-year-old guy just trying to keep up with a world that he was never designed for? And what if the story morphed from an ’80s sci-fi adventure movie about a child with a computer in his skull … into a single-camera comedy starring Tony Hale? The boy everyone wanted … has become the man no one needs … in the TV adaptation nobody asked for.
The show will be written by Jody Lambert (People Like Us), with Matt Oberg in his directing debut. This sounds like it will be a funny series. Hale is hilarious, and it sounds like they’ve got a fun and fresh take on an originally serious story.
The report from TheWrap also says TNT and TBS are also working on a few other series, including:
The Fall: “A captivating paranoid thriller about a woman whose dark secrets start to unravel her seemingly perfect life. Inspired by the Albert Camus tale of the same name.”
Liar’s Club: “Part comedy, part pulp thriller, Liar’s Club tells the story of a woman leading two very different lives — one adorned in the trappings of Connecticut country clubs, and the other drenched in the murkiness of the underground gambling circuit in NYC. It’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel meets Breaking Bad.”
Space: “On the verge of a break-up, long-term couple Rob and Marin are granted the ultimate “space” to figure out their future when they suddenly begin jumping into the bodies of other couples. It’s a hilarious, romantic, oddly relatable Quantum Leap.”
Are you looking forward to checking out any of these new series?
via: TheWrap