TV show ?? I can't see how it would work after this sequel ..
Spoilers for anyone who has NOT seen Holocene :
[spoiler]The director/producer asking for funding is a noble enough gesture but at the end of the film he announces he'd like to turn the concept into a TV show.
If that's the case, I think he's hurt his chances by allowing the sequel to take the turn that it did.
With John finally ageing and the slowing down of his healing processes, they've built a time limit into it, haven't they ?
I know they had to acknowledge the ten years of the actor himself ageing, but he didn't look that different. He never had a beard in the original so to show it being salt and pepper would be perfectly natural for a man in his late 40s/early 50s anyway.
I would imagine the show to be something along the lines of The Incredible Hulk with John Newman staying a while in each place (one every series ?) before moving on to pastures new ..
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Having said all that, if the show's as poor as the sequel it'll never get off the ground anyway.
The story itself was fine, but the lurch from scene to scene, the no-back-story characters and some of the acting was below par, especially compared to the original.
Incidentally, I always thought the original would make a superb stage play.
I don't know if it's ever been adapted, but given how few people seem to know about it I would imagine it would do well in a word-of-mouth kind of way ..