Upon revisiting the film on Blu-ray, I definitely think a television series is a better route to take and, according to Aja, things are moving along.
I spoke with the man this morning here at Comic-Con and he says the series has a home, but he cannot divulge those details just yet.
“I think Cronenberg created a great world that is squeezed into two hours that don’t work,” he told me. “It’s an amazing concept for a TV show with this political contractor, a new kind of spy thing is perfect for television.” He says the current rise in horror fare on television is helping Scanners‘ chances in becoming a reality. “It took some time but we found the right concept, the right approach for a show.”
In the 1981 film, a man with extraordinary abilities is hired by a company to track down a “scanner” who is eliminating other scanners. Scanner recently made its Blu-ray debut via Criterion.
