“Event Horizon” and “Resident Evil” director Paul W.S. Anderson is reportedly set to direct the pilot and executive produce a TV series reboot of Guillermo del Toro’s first U.S. feature – the 1997 giant cockroach tale “Mimic”.
The original film, an adaptation of Donald A. Wollheim’s short story of the same name, is set three years after an entomologist (Mira Sorvino) successfully introduces genetically altered cockroaches known as the ‘Judas Breed’ into the population under Manhattan to wipe out the others which are carrying a plague that has been killing the city’s children.
Life has returned to normal, though soon she discovers not only have the Judas survived, they’ve evolved over tens of thousands of generations within only three years, turning into six-foot tall creatures who have developed the ability to mimic their human prey and have established a large colony under the city. Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham and Josh Brolin also starred.
Miramax TV is developing the property with Jim Danger Gray (“Hannibal,” “Orange is the New Black”) set to write and serve as showrunner.
Source: Deadline
