TV Series of The Purge Soon To Be A Reality?
Cinemablend is reporting that popular movie series The Purge is being turned into a television show by series creator James DeMonaco. The movie series has had three highly successful films and the writer/director is very excited about the prospect of being able to tell these stories in a different format, specifically in ten, one-hour segments.
Speaking about the format idea, DeMonaco told Cinemablend, “… why I like the idea of a maybe 10 hour TV thing on this, the one thing you really can’t do on the films is, just because of mere real estate and time, is you can’t get into the nuance and complexity that would drive someone to commit a terrible act on this night. Whether it’s revenge or out of passion, but what might be interesting in a TV show is with a flashback narrative, if you start on Purge Night but you go back to show how people have gotten to where they are. Where you see a couple that’s gone haywire on this night, but let’s show everything that’s led up to this moment of a husband trying to kill a wife — the cheating or the accusations of cheating or money problems. It will be interesting to show those arcs, those dramatic and complex arcs that get people to where they pick up a gun or a knife and kill someone else. I think there’s something cool that we can do with the real estate of TV — 10 hours, potentially.”