TORONTO — A TV series based on the Brad Pitt movie 12 Monkeys will be made in Toronto.
U.S. cable channel SyFy has ordered a 13-episode season to begin in January 2015.
Production of the series will start in Toronto in early August.
The small screen version of 12 Monkeys will star Aaron Stanford (Nikita), Amanda Schull (Suits), Kirk Acevedo (Fringe) and Noah Bean (Nikita).
12 Monkeys follows a man from the post-apocalyptic future who travels back to present day to investigate the source of a deadly plague that will destroy humans.
The 1995 movie, directed by Terry Gilliam, earned Pitt a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor as well as an Oscar nomination. It also starred Bruce Willis and Madeleine Stowe.
Toronto is home to another new series about a deadly virus. Production is about to wrap on The Strain, an FX series from Guillermo del Toro about a team probing an outbreak that threatens New York City.
In Montreal, SyFy is about to start work on a second season of Helix, which follows a team of scientists investigating a mysterious disease outbreak.
Though not available in Canada, the NBC Universal-owned SyFy network makes a lot of its shows in the country.
The made-in-Montreal Being Human and Toronto-shot Warehouse 13 are ending their runs on SyFy and the network airs the made-in-Toronto series Defiance and Lost Girl as well as the Vancouver-filmed series Continuum and made-in-Nova Scotia drama Haven.
SyFy recently announced the mini-series Ascension will be made in Montreal.
In Canada, Helix, Warehouse 13, Defiance, Lost Girl, Haven and Continuum air on Showcase (owned by Global News parent company Shaw Media).
Comments