Gattaca? The TV Series? Are You S@#$%ing Me?
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Um… I’m not sure how to tell you this, but, despite all logic and seemingly good sense, there’s going to be a Gattaca TV series. As in the 1997 movie starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman about genetics and space travel and murder and some shit. This makes no fucking sense to me. Like everything else on TV that’s not a hospital drama or a reality show, it will be a police procedural, just with the genetically perfect Valids clashing with the genetically crappy Invalids serving as racism or some such, according to writer/producer Gil Grant at MTV.
Chris Cummins sent me the tip in the midst of several hundred words of vile profanity; apparently he’s a big fan of the film, and is not that excited about the potential series. Frankly, I’m just disturbed that 12-year-old movie bombs with Ethan Hawke in them can still become contemporary TV shows. I hadn’t given this 2012 apocalypse theory much credibility before, but if this isn’t a sign that signals worldwide destruction in the near future, I don’t know what is.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.