It’s like Smallville, only gorier. Re-Animator TV pilot in production.
Nov 16th, 2008 by Bryan White
Sometimes I bring you news that I so badly wish weren’t true (and this still might not be), but rest assured, there isn’t a chance in hell that this show would ever be picked up. Not even by Sci-Fi. Bloody Disgusting reports that Transition Entertainment is shooting a pilot for a show with the hefty and tentative title of Herbert West: Re-Animator The Series which portrays Jeffrey Combs’ iconic role as the titular Herbert West as “a teenage Dr. Frankenstein for the new millenium”. Their words, not mine. The pilot script is being written by Meredith Red and William Butler, the latter of whom is credited with the Return of the Living Dead 4 & 5 and the Gingerdead Man, so you know it will be good.
Even though Bloody Disgusting is an otherwise reputable outfit for news, they’re not above being duped and this bit of news comes from an unnamed reader who may or may not have some kind of history as a trusted source with them. Until I see an official press release, I’m calling bullshit because I can’t conceive a show like this without the Yuzna/Gordon touch and plotting late adolescence romance amidst morbid humor, the walking dead and dismemberment just doesn’t seem to be the kind of mix to make a TV show out of.
And what network would air this?
Let’s hope NO network airs this horrible attempt at fanfic. Ugh.
Speaking as somebody whose favorite film of all-time is RE-ANIMATOR this news makes me die inside a little. I’m in the same “what network in its right mind” would pick this up department but just as recently as a season ago CBS had a zombie-centric serial drama in the works so you just never know.