Syfy Orders Bryan Singer Pilot Script Creature At Bay
The show would tell the story of a coastal town after a monster attack.
Syfy Channel has put another pilot project into development, this one with X-Men director and House producer Bryan Singer and his Bad Hat Harry Prods.
Creature At Bay is set “in the wake of the U.S. military taking down a giant, rampant creature — a modern-day ‘Kaiju’ monster — just off the Northern California coast,” according to the press release. “A middle-management Undersecretary from the California Emergency Management Agency is charged with leading the clean-up efforts as the small town becomes the focus of the entire world.”
It’s an unusual premise, though one that will have to prove that a show about the aftermath of a monster attack can be as interesting TV viewing as the attack itself. NBC’s monster-themed Surface (2005-2006) certainly managed to stay interesting.
The cable channel has ordered a 90-minute pilot script, which will be written by John Cabrera.
This addition brings Syfy up to 12 new scripted series at various stages of development. That list also includes 12 Monkeys, Clandestine, Dominion, High Moon, Infinity, No Place, Orion, Proof, Shelter, Silver Shields, and Sojourn. (The network’s last couple of pilot efforts, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome and Rewind, did not go to series.) Not all of these will even get pilots filmed, let alone make it to air.
One or more of these may be lucky enough to join Helix, from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), the contagion drama that begins in 2014.
(Via Deadline)
