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03-28-2013, 07:17 AM
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Lana and Andy Wachowski are working on a sci-fi series for Netflix called Sense8.
For months now, it’s been an open secret that Andy and Lana Wachowski, the directorial siblings best known for their work on The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas, were working on a high-concept science fiction television series called Sense8 with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski (there was even a Variety story about it). But the project’s official announcement today added an interesting new twist: It’s not actually a television series at all: It’s a 10-part series that will debut on Netflix Instant late next year.
Sense8 is being described by Netflix as “a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted,” created and developed by the Wachowskis themselves, who reportedly wrote the first three scripts for the series on spec because they were so excited about the concept. The Wachowskis will act as joint showrunners on the series with Straczynski, who is co-producing the series through his recently created Studio JMS production house, and are reportedly looking to direct multiple episodes if their schedules permit.
Studio JMS will co-produce the show with Georgeville TV. When news of the project initially emerged last year, Georgeville’s Marc Rosen said the show was “the kind of project that our company was set up to produce — an idea so big in size and scale that it doesn’t make sense to try it as a pilot. The only way to let the filmmakers realize their vision on something like this is to do multiple episodes.”
“We’re excited to work with Netflix and Georgeville Television on this project, and we’ve wanted to work with Joe Straczynski for years, chiefly due to the fact his name is harder to pronounce than ours, but also because we share a love of genre and all things nerdy,” the Wachowskis said in a statement accompanying the show’s announcement. They went on to hint what Sense8 is about, saying that “several years ago, we had a late-night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us, and out of that paradox Sense8 was born.”
Sense8 is due to debut on Netflix in late 2014.
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Lana and Andy Wachowski are working on a sci-fi series for Netflix called Sense8.
For months now, it’s been an open secret that Andy and Lana Wachowski, the directorial siblings best known for their work on The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas, were working on a high-concept science fiction television series called Sense8 with Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski (there was even a Variety story about it). But the project’s official announcement today added an interesting new twist: It’s not actually a television series at all: It’s a 10-part series that will debut on Netflix Instant late next year.
Sense8 is being described by Netflix as “a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted,” created and developed by the Wachowskis themselves, who reportedly wrote the first three scripts for the series on spec because they were so excited about the concept. The Wachowskis will act as joint showrunners on the series with Straczynski, who is co-producing the series through his recently created Studio JMS production house, and are reportedly looking to direct multiple episodes if their schedules permit.
Studio JMS will co-produce the show with Georgeville TV. When news of the project initially emerged last year, Georgeville’s Marc Rosen said the show was “the kind of project that our company was set up to produce — an idea so big in size and scale that it doesn’t make sense to try it as a pilot. The only way to let the filmmakers realize their vision on something like this is to do multiple episodes.”
“We’re excited to work with Netflix and Georgeville Television on this project, and we’ve wanted to work with Joe Straczynski for years, chiefly due to the fact his name is harder to pronounce than ours, but also because we share a love of genre and all things nerdy,” the Wachowskis said in a statement accompanying the show’s announcement. They went on to hint what Sense8 is about, saying that “several years ago, we had a late-night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us, and out of that paradox Sense8 was born.”
Sense8 is due to debut on Netflix in late 2014.
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