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http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/rel...ey-cooper-for-series-based-on-film-limitless/

Relativity Television has partnered with Georgeville Television and actor/producer Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) for Limitless, a scripted TV series based on Relativity’s hit 2011 movie starring and executive produced by Cooper. He will executive produce the drama, with the film’s producers Leslie Dixon and Scott Kroopf serving as co-executive producers. The announcement will be made at the upcoming MIPCOM market in Cannes, where Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh will give a keynote speech Tuesday. “Limitless is the perfect example of Relativity’s multiplatform approach to creating quality content,” he said. Added Georgeville TV CEO Marc Rosen, “The film has an organic natural extension into a compelling and sophisticated one-hour drama that is both a thrill-ride and a social commentary.”

The Limitless feature, which starred Cooper, Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish, is a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life. (Watch the trailer after the jump.) The film opened at No. 1 at the domestic box office on its way to grossing more than $160 million worldwide and subsequently sold 2 million-plus home video units.

The Limitless series is part of Relativity’s expansion into scripted television. It joins the green light at National Geographic Channel the company just received for its first scripted series, drama Act of Valor, also based on a Relativity feature. The scripted series complement Relativity’s expansive unscripted portfolio, which Includes 17 series currently on air including MTV hit Catfish, an offshoot from the Relativity documentary feature.
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Edited for incorrect info cause I can't read today

I wonder who will pick it up? And why they didn't just outright do a sequel?

Also, they made a sequel series to Act of Valor too? Is this the route they're gonna take now?
 
BronsonLee said:
Well, this will end well. There's no way Cooper's in i-

Oh he IS?

Hmmm...Last time I remember him doing TV was Touching Evil, though I'm sure he's done other things. That's awesome though. I wonder who will pick it up? And why they didn't just outright do a sequel?

Also, they made a sequel series to Act of Valor too? Is this the route they're gonna take now?
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He is not staring in it, he is the executive producer. And that Act Of Valor series hasn´t been filmed yet.
 
If they have many short stories of people around the world, sure.

edit: imagine something like "the dutch soccer player episode", "the japanese classical musician episode", "the mexican painter episode".
 
I haven't seen the movie but I'm all for it if this puts more money in Coopers pocket so he can make a (good) Hyperion Cantos movie or tv show...
 
Nice. Enjoyed the movie.

It'd be cool if Cooper would guest star as his character from the movie from time to time - while focusing on a young guy that's found the drug and his coming to grasp and manipulating and eventual rise. And battling it out with another nemesis that has also taken the drug.

I mean, the premise of Suits is kinda like this - young genius kid with amazing photographic memory making himself super lawyer, mentored by another super lawyer, but with achilles heel that could destroy him and everyone around him.
 
Mindwipe said:
I loved that film. But I don't see how you get a series out of it.
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It could easily be a Breaking Bad variant. Guy wants to make money sell the drugs. Criminals descend on him, trying to take over his business. Guy takes the drug, becomes smart, uses his brainpower to overcome the criminals.
 
Zaptruder said:
It'd be cool if Cooper would guest star as his character from the movie from time to time - while focusing on a young guy that's found the drug and his coming to grasp and manipulating and eventual rise. And battling it out with another nemesis that has also taken the drug.
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I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING. It is kind of freaky when somebody posts something you were going to post close to word-for-word.
 
Vulcano's assistant said:
If they have many short stories of people around the world, sure.

edit: imagine something like "the dutch soccer player episode", "the japanese classical musician episode", "the mexican painter episode".
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Something like the Twilight Zone but with each story being connected somehow?
 
Is there any news about the TV channel this will air on?

Also I'm kinda astonished that Bradley Cooper would do a TV series while he is still hot. That man could do a lot of movies and cash in. Props to him.

EDIT: Sorry, just read that he will be Executive Producer.
 
Vulcano's assistant said:
If they have many short stories of people around the world, sure.

edit: imagine something like "the dutch soccer player episode", "the japanese classical musician episode", "the mexican painter episode".
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That's exactly what I was thinking.

If it's basically a retelling of the movie focused on one similar character, forget it.
 
i dont really feel like there is much to explore in this universe.


what's going to happen? some dude takes a pill, gets high, then pontificates for 30 hours about numbers and accounting, gets rich and then does it over and over again each episode?
 
This is one of my favorite movies of recent years, so I am very cautiously optimistic about this series.

It can either be very great, or they can go the Hollywood way, and try to squeeze the essence , crating stories that don't connect to each other.

One of the best things about the movie was the interplay between cooper and the Russian character after he got the drug. When 2 people are using 100% of the brain, what is the X factor that makes one more successful than the other?
 
So are they gonna address that one plothole in the film

The one where we're not sure whether or not the main character killed someone while high
 
Limitless is one of my favorite movies. Such an awesome movie.


Don't know if it will click as a TV series though. Hope that Cooper is still the lead or at least still in it.
 
NotMyRealName said:
So are they gonna address that one plothole in the film

The one where we're not sure whether or not the main character killed someone while high
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He didn't. The actual hole would be why the person who actually killed her... killed her at all, and not him. There's never a reason given.

Good movie, dodgy science aside. I'd prefer if the TV show was something entirely different but following the same concept.
 
24FrameDaVinci said:
Is this that movie where the people become limitless?
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Yes.

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davepoobond said:
i dont really feel like there is much to explore in this universe.


what's going to happen? some dude takes a pill, gets high, then pontificates for 30 hours about numbers and accounting, gets rich and then does it over and over again each episode?
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I totally disagree. There are lots of interesting things that could be done with this!

Not everyone will react the same way to the drug. Some might crave power, but others might use it to help others. With more than one person taking the drug, it becomes almost a superhero series. Good against evil, conflicting desires, subterfuge, running out versus overdosing, different situations, different locales. you can play with the on/off nature of the drug almost infinitely.

As an example: three people team up, and are forced to deal with a villain who has recently gotten access to the drug. They only have enough of a supply to have one of them 'on' at a time, and all three have different skillsets and personalities. Maybe one's a computer guy, one's a people skills type, and one's a combat guy. How do they combine their skills and limited amounts of the drug to overcome this bad guy?

What if one person's betraying another? What if previously unknown side effects begin to occur due to long term use of the drug? What if an insane person takes it? what if a child does? What if a pregnant woman takes it, what does that do to the child? What about technologies that might get created by these geniuses, and how can those be used to tell stories? What about social commentary stories, where people from different walks of life take it and what their reactions are? Can this highlight people's similarities or highlight their differences?

there could even be stories of a team of people who do not use the drug trying to overcome someone who is using it. Throw other drugs in the mix, a counter-drug, a version that works better but destroys your brain super fast, whatever.
 
grumble said:
I totally disagree. There are lots of interesting things that could be done with this!

Not everyone will react the same way to the drug. Some might crave power, but others might use it to help others. With more than one person taking the drug, it becomes almost a superhero series. Good against evil, conflicting desires, subterfuge, running out versus overdosing, different situations, different locales. you can play with the on/off nature of the drug almost infinitely.
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Indeed.
 
Mindwipe said:
I loved that film. But I don't see how you get a series out of it.
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The story actually lends itself quite nicely to TV. A guy with genius level capabilities but is dependent on a drug to achieve it.

grumble said:
I totally disagree. There are lots of interesting things that could be done with this!

Not everyone will react the same way to the drug. Some might crave power, but others might use it to help others. With more than one person taking the drug, it becomes almost a superhero series. Good against evil, conflicting desires, subterfuge, running out versus overdosing, different situations, different locales. you can play with the on/off nature of the drug almost infinitely.

As an example: three people team up, and are forced to deal with a villain who has recently gotten access to the drug. They only have enough of a supply to have one of them 'on' at a time, and all three have different skillsets and personalities. Maybe one's a computer guy, one's a people skills type, and one's a combat guy. How do they combine their skills and limited amounts of the drug to overcome this bad guy?

What if one person's betraying another? What if previously unknown side effects begin to occur due to long term use of the drug? What if an insane person takes it? what if a child does? What if a pregnant woman takes it, what does that do to the child? What about technologies that might get created by these geniuses, and how can those be used to tell stories? What about social commentary stories, where people from different walks of life take it and what their reactions are? Can this highlight people's similarities or highlight their differences?

there could even be stories of a team of people who do not use the drug trying to overcome someone who is using it. Throw other drugs in the mix, a counter-drug, a version that works better but destroys your brain super fast, whatever.
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Another thing to add to the list of things they can explore is who manufactured the drug in the first place and why they decided to sell it on the black market instead of keeping it for themselves.
 
The movie had a great idea, but at times a rather stupid execution of it. Very interested to see how the series turns out - could be great.
 
I wonder if the show is gonna answer a pretty big question that the movie just dropped.

Did the presidential hopeful really get away clean with murder in cold blood?
 
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