Revolution Details Emerge as NBC Orders JJ Abrams-Eric Kripke Pilot

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 at 1:45pm
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<i>Revolution</i> Details Emerge as NBC Orders JJ Abrams-Eric Kripke Pilot  

Last September, word got out that J.J. Abrams (Alcatraz, Star Trek) and Eric Kripke (Supernatural) teamed up to work on a pilot for NBC called Revolution. The only thing we knew about the concept was that it would be an “epic adventure thriller.”

Thanks to Variety, we know a little bit more about the project’s high concept now that the network has greenlit the pilot: “Revolution follows a group of characters struggling to survive and reunite with loved ones in a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist.”

Kripke wrote the pilot and is also acting as an executive producer along with Abrams and Bryan Burk (Alcatraz, Fringe).

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  • Carparts

    A world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist?

    Put holograms on their chests and you’ve got Visionaries.

  • Skapunkboi19

    I don’t know how a show with this kind of concept would work since a lack of chemical and potential energy means no one would be able to move, a lack of electrical energy means they wouldn’t be able to think(or live for that matter) no light means they couldn’t see, no sound means they couldn’t hear, and oh all matter would collapse into sub-atomic particles.

  • Wyatt Samuel K

    Hey, you leave your logic at the door mister! ;)

  • sandwich eater

    How can all forms of energy cease to exist?  That would make the universe a giant empty void since e=mc^2.  Actually, I take that back the universe wouldn’t be giant because dark energy is what drives the expansion of the universe.  Also everything would be at a temperature of 0K.  I don’t see how any humans could have an adventure when the temperature is absolute zero and there is no matter in the universe.

    Maybe they meant our technology stopped working.  But even then things like fire and the digestion of food involve energy.  I just couldn’t watch a show written by someone so incompetent as to describe the plot this way.

  • JAV

    So we would tune in to this show and watch a black screen?
    No light energy means no color, so Black, right?
    No sound energy means no sound, so Mute, right?

    JJ Abrams is a TV God! He managed to create a show that looks like our TV when it is switched off. And we will tune in to stair at a blank screen for an hour each week.

    I”m in.

  • Skapunkboi19

    I can’t wait for the Abrams loyalists to start their justifying of how this show is genius and that everyone should be watching it and then complaining on the internet that no one does. 

  • Orphan

    Face it, even if Abrams came up with a premise that did work having it on NBC means it is already still born.NBC can’t  keep sci-fi/fantasy concepts afloat they never could. 

 

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