Ridley Scott adapting "Hot Zone" bestseller into Ebola TV seriesOctober 18, 2014 - 13:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - As the Ebola virus outbreak causes global health scare, a TV series about the deadly pathogen is in the works. Lynda Obst and Ridley Scott have been quietly developing a limited series for Fox TV Studios based on Richard Preston's 1994 nonfiction best-seller "The Hot Zone", AceShowbiz said. The duo obtained the rights to the book over two decades ago and originally planned to adapt it into a movie, with Robert Redford and Jodie Foster set to star and Scott as director. The big-screen project, however, never came to fruition. Jim Hart, who wrote the feature screenplay, will serve as an executive producer for the TV adaptation alongside Scott, Obst and David Zucker. "A limited series is a great way to do this because you don't have to limit it to a three-act structure like you do with a film," Obst says of the project. The book covers the Ebola crisis of the 1970s and 1990s, but the series will also highlight the most recent outbreak that started months ago in West Africa and has killed more than 4,500 people, including one in the United States. "I think it's the speed with which it kills that makes the disease so frightening," Obst tells The Hollywood Reporter of the disease. "People hoped it would stay in some remote part of the world. But that's a fantasy in the modern world. The modern world makes us one big connected family." Photo: Collider Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |