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These days , theatre director David Cronenberg does Oscar - style transportation like A History of Violence , but back in the 1980s he made splattery body horror cheesefests . Scanners is one of the best of the band , give us a spooky , memorably gross , look at the lifespan of outcast telepaths who were the victims of government experiment . Also , there were a lot of exploding heads . Now , Weinstein Co. ’s Dimension Films is producing a TV series base on Cronenberg ’s weird flick .
According to Deadline Hollywood :
The original plan was to climb a theatrical remake , with David Goyer tap to write two draught , and Rene Malo , Clark Peterson and Pierre David signed as producer . But with the recent resurgence of genre TV drama like AMC ’s monster hit The Walking Dead , Dimension bulge also considering a small - filmdom adaptation . According to insider , it was Dimension principal Bob Weinstein and Aja who conceived of the plan to transmute the Scanners property into a TV show .
Another one of Cronenberg ’s films , The Dead Zone , was a successful telecasting serial in the early 2000s .
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