A poster for the unique Metropolis by Laurent Durieux.Picture: Laurent Durieux/Darkish Corridor Mansion
Virtually ten years in the past, Mr. Robotic creator Sam Esmail started work on a ardour mission of his. Deliver Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, Metropolis, again to life as a long-form tv sequence. It was a dream that was very near changing into a actuality with Apple TV+ on the point of begin manufacturing later this 12 months. Nevertheless, because of the author’s strike, the mission has been completely shut down.
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Deadline reported the information, which was confirmed by the present’s manufacturing firm, Common Content material Productions. “Push prices and uncertainty associated to the continuing strike led to this troublesome resolution,” a consultant for UCP instructed the commerce. This principally means the corporate was paying individuals to not work because it waited for the strike to finish however will not be doing that. Scripts weren’t full when the strike began final month and so many departments had been ready in Australia as manufacturing was supposed to start out this summer season.
Metropolis was first introduced approach again in 2016 however, on the time, Esmail nonetheless had two seasons of Mr. Robotic to complete. Right here’s the way it was described then:
Like the unique movie, the small-screen adaptation will happen in a future society the place rich industrialists rule the huge metropolis from high-rise tower complexes, whereas a decrease class of underground-dwelling staff toil continually to function the machines that present its energy. Risking every little thing they know, two star-crossed lovers from reverse sides of the divide should discover a option to deliver down the entire system.
And now, properly, a system did get introduced down. Solely it was the one we had been hoping to see dropped at life on Apple TV+.
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