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[Galactus]

Source: Variety October 5, 2007


Fox has picked up "Fringe," a spooky series from the minds of J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, reports Variety.

The network has made a series commitment to the Warner Bros.-Bad Robot production, which will start off with a two-hour pilot budgeted at more than $10 million. Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci (who are working on Paramount's new Star Trek movie) wrote the project and will executive produce along with Bryan Burk ("Lost"). A search has begun for a pilot director as well as a series showrunner.

"Fringe" mixes elements of "The X-Files" and Paddy Chayefsky's Altered States with what Abrams calls "a slight 'Twilight Zone' vibe." It will focus on brilliant but possibly crazy research scientist Walter Bishop, his estranged son and a female FBI agent who brings them together.

Episodes will explore self-contained mysteries of the paranormal, as well as the relationships between the three leads.

"So much of the story is relatable people in extraordinary situations," Abrams said. "The show is definitely a nod to 'Altered States' and 'Scanners' and that whole Michael Crichton/Robin Cook world of medicine and science."

There'll also be an overriding mythology that will come into play from time to time, as well as a healthy dose of humor.

"It does the stuff my favorite TV shows and movies do, which is to combine genres that shouldn't fit together," Abrams said. "It's definitely meant to scare the hell out of you, but it's also meant to make you laugh... It pushes all the buttons of things we loved from our childhood."

Driving the show will be the Walter Bishop character, a larger-than-life figure who bears some resemblance to the titular character in Fox's "House." In the pilot, he's in a mental hospital.

"Imagine that your father is Frankenstein mixed with Albert Einstein," Orci said. "He's someone who has the mental ability to solve so many problems but is so different that communicating with them is almost impossible."

 

[GhostPoet]

I thought all the pieces of the weapon existed on both Earths in the same places. And Altlivia was transmitting the locations of the parts they found on this Earth to Walternate for them to find on their world. And then it became a race to be the first to build it.

You are correct, Sir, Walternate only had some of the pieces, but the others were still lost. On our side, those pieces were located, allowing Walternate to know where the missing pieces would be located in his own universe.

 

[BlackLantern]

is this an alternate thread?

 

[wiegeabo]

This is the thread from the alternate universe.

 

[BlackLantern]

dammit....I don't wanna be encased in Amber

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, but on the bright side, we get to see Tom Cruise on the TV and drive double decker cars.

 

[BlackLantern]

I don't want a double decker car.....

 

[Sawyer]

You will drive one and you will like it!

 

[wiegeabo]

I refuse to read Red Lantern/Red Arrow

 

[Sawyer]

Hey hey hey!!! We get a Superman vs. Batman movie and you people are complaining? Pffft... best universe ever.

 

[BlackLantern]

yea...starring Sylvester Stallone as Batman and Ricky Gervais as Superman

you watch that ****, you watch it and cry

 

[Sawyer]

Such lies, BL.

 

[wiegeabo]

Hey hey hey!!! We get a Superman vs. Batman movie and you people are complaining? Pffft... best universe ever.

But Back to the Future starred Eric Stoltz.

 

[BlackLantern]

Such lies, BL.

it's the truth and you KNOW it

 

[wiegeabo]

Wow, there's a lot of things to get used to in this new universe of ours. Just check out the US map!

- Texas is divided into two states, North Texas and South Texas.
- North Dakota and South Dakota are combined into one state, Dakota.
- Oklahoma and Kansas are combined into one state, Midland.
- North and South Carolina are combined into one state, Carolina.
- Washington is known as Southern British Columbia.
- Michigan is smaller, missing it's northern portion, the Upper Peninsula.
- Virginia and West Virginia are not states. They are combined into a district, the District of Virginia.
- Louisiana is a territory and not a state. It is known as Louisiana Territory.
- The State of Nevada does not exist. Independent Nevada replaces it.
- The tiny District of Columbia is not represented on the large, generic map.

And it looks like that great quake hit, half of California is gone.

 

[BlackLantern]

or got ambered

 

[Sawyer]

North Texas is nice, but South Texas is an utter ****hole.

 

[imdaly]

Wow, there's a lot of things to get used to in this new universe of ours. Just check out the US map!

And it looks like that great quake hit, half of California is gone.

Nah. It's not gone. That half is just so overrun with Mexicans we gave it back to Mexico.

 

[wiegeabo]

Nah. It's not gone. That half is just so overrun with Mexicans we gave it back to Mexico.

Ah, so the Republicans are in office.

Good news.

CW changed their schedule today, and Supernatural won't be returning tomorrow after all. That's two straight weeks with no real competition.

 

[Sawyer]

Yeah, good news. The CW is ****ing ******ed.

 

[Paradox1]

Subscribe

 

[Asgard]

This episode was awesome. I like how just having contact with the death machine turns Peter into a killer.

More references to the First People.

The only questions I have are why did MD decide to build the machine in the first place and why Peter used some sort of code to decide which shapeshifters to kill.

 

[Morg]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/29/fringe-week-2/


ratings were good

 

[Paradox1]

I thought it was a goos episode and Peter is really changing