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A Purge TV Series is Happening (Cinemablend)


Straight from creator/director James DeMonaco's mouth:

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/1561449/a-purge-tv-series-is-happening-get-the-details

I guess kind of an anthology -- more of an interwoven anthology. They came to me about a TV show, my idea is that you do six or seven storylines. And I would kind of intercut them, use flashbacks.

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The idea of why I like the idea of a maybe 10 hour TV thing on this, the one thing you really can't do on the films is, just because of mere real estate and time, is you can't get into the nuance and complexity that would drive someone to commit a terrible act on this night. Whether it's revenge or out of passion, but what might be interesting in a TV show is with a flashback narrative, if you start on Purge Night but you go back to show how people have gotten to where they are. Where you see a couple that's gone haywire on this night, but let's show everything that's led up to this moment of a husband trying to kill a wife -- the cheating or the accusations of cheating or money problems. It will be interesting to show those arcs, those dramatic and complex arcs that get people to where they pick up a gun or a knife and kill someone else. I think there's something cool that we can do with the real estate of TV -- 10 hours, potentially.


Sounds freaking cool. I always felt that the whole universe of The Purge would definitely be well-suited to long-form TV exploration, and it looks like this is actually going to happen (and with the creator's full involvement, to boot).

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I'm really excited for it. I think it could be good. I hope they keep doing movies too.

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Not a bad idea actually, the Purge universe is a treasure trove of stories each unique. And very good idea involving the creators to make a good form of TV.

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After the Purge (2016)

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The BOSS of this place
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We need more Purge.

OHHH GOOOD FOR YOU!!

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This would be awesome.

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