According to Deadline, Michael Ellenberg’s Media Res and Bron Studios have come out successful in a bidding war for the TV rights to David Cronenberg’s classic sci-fi horror Scanners, and are currently developing a small screen adaptation of the movie.
Released in 1981, Scanners revolves around a group of people with telekinetic powers called “scanners”, who are hunted down by ConSec, an organisation who wants to use them for their own nefarious purposes.
The site reports that Ellenberg and Bron plan on attaching a high-end filmmaker and showrunner before taking the package out to premium services.
The rights to Scanners were held by The Weinstein Company’s Dimension Films for many years, during which time there were unsuccessful attempts to develop both a movie reboot and a TV series.
