Kevin Williamson is one of the most famous , influential film and idiot box writers of the preceding several ten . From Scream and Dawson ’s Creek , to The Faculty and Vampire Diaries , he ’s got a knack for playing with genre conventions , and that ’s exactly what he ’ll attempt to do with his late fender .
The pilot is name Time After Time , based on the 1979 Kari Alexander Christian Bible which also became a movie starring Malcolm McDowell . The story centers on Time Machine and War of the Worlds writer H.G. Wells , who in this mankind not only writes about a time machine , he ’s invented one . Most of his friends are skeptical , economise for one , who ends up actually being Jack the Ripper . The murderer steal the machine and ends up in modern times , set up up an adventurous , meter - travelling detective story .
Variety reports that ABC has given a pilot film edict to the show , which “ use that story as a starting point , chronicle the epic escapade of young H.G. Wells and his Time Machine . ” I can totally see the book being the basis for season one and then get the melodic theme of H.G. Wells travel all through metre to dissimilar places in subsequent season . A very cool idea .
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