Syfy has ordered a full 13-episode season of 12 Monkeys, a new television series about a time traveler from a post-apocalyptic future, returning in hopes of stopping the disease that will eventually end most of humanity. The series is meant to act as a reinvention of the classic Terry Gilliam film from 1995 by the same title.
A trailer for the series has finally made its way to the internet.
http://youtu.be/sPNHIz1-8aM
Given how good the film is, expectations for this new project are definitely set high. This trailer doesn’t necessarily make the series look bad, but I can’t say that it looks like an improvement upon the source material either. I guess we’ll just have to wait until we see a few full episodes before truly judging it.
12 Monkeys stars Aaron Stanford (Nikita), Amanda Schull (Pretty Little Liars), Noah Bean (Nikita), and Kirk Acevedo (Law & Order: SVU) and premieres on Syfy in January 2015.