Monsters, the first film from the director of Rogue One, is going to become a series

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Well before finding to the commands of a spin-off of Star Wars, Gareth Edwards was already shown in the science fiction, noteworthy fashion, with the film alien Monsters, now adapted for Channel 4.

Far from the paradise beach controlled by the Empire, revealed at the end of Rogue One : A Star Wars Story, Gareth Edwards began his career as a director of science fiction in a setting of South America devastated. Monsters, his first film, designed in Great Britain and released in 2010, is a production, post-apocalyptic with a side of horror, over which one can follow two characters lost in a Mexico depopulated, full of space creatures voracious. Two heroes who are trying to get out of the quarantine zone and reach the u.s. border.

This production of science fiction a very small budget, praised for the originality of his monsters sprawling, for his artistic direction and for its atmosphere, described by some as poetic (read our review here), is now the subject of an adaptation in the series, with a planned release on the british channel Channel 4.

The heroes of Monsters (Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able), only in full Mexico devastated

The showrunner dispatched for this program is Ronan Bennett, the creator of the series Top Boy, and Gunpowder (which plunges Kit Harington in the London of the Seventeenth century, threatened by a large attack). The writers selected are Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith, writers of the Run, original series Hulu. We know already that Channel 4 would like to achieve, for this new creation, a partnership with a major u.s. broadcaster. Their series of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams has been acquired by Amazon, and successfully launched in the United States.

Remains to be seen what will be the involvement of Gareth Edwards in the ranks of this new project, and who will succeed within the casting, the actors of the original film, Scoot McNairy (Godless, Aftermath, Non-Stop and soon the 3rd season of True Detective) and Whitney Able (Godless, Walk between the graves). The series Monsters will be shooting to start in 2018 and we must say that it was a little rushed, already because Monsters is an excellent movie that would lend itself to the exercise of the expanded universe, and secondly, because Channel 4 is a channel that did not have cold eyes, and which often offers interesting content. One owes him in particular the Black Mirror, and more recently the excellent (and very appreciated) The End Of The Fucking World. Needless to say, that we are going to follow this closely, so…

Image extracted from Monsters, science-fiction film poetic and pure