The writer/director team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are responsible for some of the wildest rides in cinema history - Crank, Crank: High Voltage, Gamer - and now the duo are bringing their same manic guerilla-style film-making to television with the new NBC show Zeroes. Neveldine and Taylor are writing the script for the show and are on board to direct the pilot.
The project is from Universal Media Studios and BermanBraun, who described the show as a high-intensity drama chronicling the last hour of a crisis situation. BermanBraun approached Neveldine and Taylor with the idea to do “a crisis show that doesn’t bore you with all of the buildup leading to the crisis.” Taylor told THR:
We want to drop right into it and sustain the absolute most berserk state of crisis, Zeroes refers to a fictional team of guys called in as a last resort who are absolutely ruthless in their use of force, when all of the options have been exhausted. We want to take that last 60 minutes and sustain it for the entire show.
With the right cast, combined with Neveldine and Taylor’s frenetic action direction, this concept should make for some high impact television. Although coming up with a crisis of the week will take some writing – here’s hoping Neveldine and Taylor can oversee production on the series, and hopefully bring the same crazy plotlines to the show as they have to their movies!
