via press release:
SYFY GREENLIGHTS 'THREE INCHES' PILOT FROM FOX TELEVISION STUDIOS
Bob Cooper and Landscape Entertainment to Produce Script from Harley Peyton
New York, NY - March 16, 2010 - Syfy has ordered the 90-minute pilot Three Inches from writer Harley Peyton (Twin Peaks) it was announced today by Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Development for Syfy. The action-adventure/fantasy will be produced by Fox Television Studios and Executive Producer Bob Cooper, whose Landscape Entertainment is producing. J.J. Jamieson heads up television for Landscape Entertainment. Peyton also serves as executive producer.
In Three Inches, professional daydreamer and underachiever, Walter, is struck by lightning, and develops a unique "super" power -- the ability to move any object using just his mind... but only a distance of three inches. He's soon recruited by a covert team of superheroes each gifted with their own extraordinarily ordinary abilities. Together, the unlikely band of heroes proves that "super" is simply a state of mind.
"'Three Inches' is a fun, smart, off-beat spin on the superhero genre. It introduces a new group of crime fighters who possess some imaginative - if not all that super - powers," said Stern. "We look forward to working with Harley, Bob, and Fox Television Studios on this project."
David Madden, executive vice president, Fox Television Studios, said, "We felt there was something special and particularly twisted about this script, both in tone and in its sense of imagination. We could not be more thrilled to be working on it with Syfy."
Harley Peyton was producer and/or writer of more than 20 episodes of David Lynch's groundbreaking television hit Twin Peaks, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for Drama Series (1990). He also wrote the screenplay for Less Than Zero based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. He is currently working on a follow up to the feature film The Thomas Crown Affair.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in 95 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
Hmmm, I wonder if this will be a little like Mystery Men?
If it was any good Fox or FX would have taken it first. It must be really cheap to produce of the Syfy suits would have not been interested. I really doubt any scifi elements will be part of this but maybe the super abilities will make it off beat enought to be fun to watch. I will schedule the Pilot when it is available and give it a chance. I just have lost any Faith in SYFY to have any good shows anymore, but I will be fair to them and try an episode anyway.
Keep in mind that USA's Burn Notice is produced by a Fox studio entity, so we shouldn't assume that because it was sold to syfy and not one of Fox's outlets that it's undeserving, or will be on the cheap. In fact, not being owned by a Universal subsidiary, could be a plus.
Good point, well I was going to give it a try even if I have become unhappy with the Syfy suits. Of course Comcast may bea course changer for the network or might already be?
Sounds like it would make a good comedy.
It could be fun in a Bruce Campbell kind of way if they do it right. I'll watch an episode or two because not much sci-fi makes it on TV.
Hmmm, I wonder if this will be a little like Mystery Men?
If it was any good Fox or FX would have taken it first. It must be really cheap to produce of the Syfy suits would have not been interested. I really doubt any scifi elements will be part of this but maybe the super abilities will make it off beat enought to be fun to watch. I will schedule the Pilot when it is available and give it a chance. I just have lost any Faith in SYFY to have any good shows anymore, but I will be fair to them and try an episode anyway.
Keep in mind that USA's Burn Notice is produced by a Fox studio entity, so we shouldn't assume that because it was sold to syfy and not one of Fox's outlets that it's undeserving, or will be on the cheap. In fact, not being owned by a Universal subsidiary, could be a plus.
Good point, well I was going to give it a try even if I have become unhappy with the Syfy suits. Of course Comcast may bea course changer for the network or might already be?
Sounds like it would make a good comedy.
It could be fun in a Bruce Campbell kind of way if they do it right. I'll watch an episode or two because not much sci-fi makes it on TV.