Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec To Produce
CW Adaptation Of UK Show ‘Tomorrow People’
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday
November 13, 2012 @ 9:30am PST
The
co-creators/ executive producers of the CW‘s two top-rated series, Arrow and
The Vampire Diaries, have teamed for a new project at the network — a series
adaptation of the cult British 1970s sci-fi series The Tomorrow People. Arrow‘s
Greg Berlanti and The Vampire Diaries‘ Julie Plec will executive produce the
project, written by Phil Klemmer (Chuck). In the vein of X-Men and Heroes,
Tomorrow People is the story of several young people from around the world who
represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers,
including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other
telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.
Created by Roger Price, The Tomorrow People, ITV’s answer to
BBC’s Dr. Who, ran on the commercial broadcaster for eight seasons from
1973-1979. It developed a strong cult following and was a favorite of Berlanti
and Plec, who are good friends from college. They had been chasing the rights
to Tomorrow People for more than a decade, finally tracking them down to
FremantleMedia, which rarely licenses its formats to other studios. But, given
the level of auspices and Berlanti and Plec’s passion for the project, the
company made an exception and will co-produce the adaptation with Warner Bros
TV and studio-based Berlanti Prods. Berlanti, Plec, Klemmer and Berlanti Prods’
Melissa Berman executive produce, with SVP Scripted Programming Tony Optican
overseeing for Fremantle. This is not the first attempt to reboot The Tomorrow
People. ITV tried it in the early 1990s, with the new series running for three
seasons.
Berlanti has credited Plec with convincing him to go back to
writing when he had given up on his Hollywood dreams after a year of odd jobs
and a string of rejections by agents and studios. Years later, the two briefly
worked together on Dawson’s Creek and sold a feature, Her Leading Man, to
Universal, with Dawson’s Creek creator and The Vampire Diaries‘ co-creator/exec
producer Kevin Williamson attached to direct. Klemmer recently worked with
Berlanti Prods on Berlanti’s USA drama Political Animals as well as the
company’s midseason CBS series Golden Boy. Berlanti and Plec are with WME.
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