Denis Leary’s Apostle Films has acquired the rights to 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca for a possible TV adaptation of the story. Variety reports that the company plans to develop the property as an hour-long crime series set in the future. NCIS writer/producer Gil Grant has been tapped to pen the project, which is being developed through Sony TV’s international division.
The film version of Gattaca was directed by Andrew Niccol and starred Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Oscar winner Alan Arkin and Ethan Hawke as a genetically inferior man living in a world where genetic engineering of humans is common…
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