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The Purge franchise will become a TV series according to
writer/director James DeMonaco. According to him, “They came to me about a TV
show; my idea is that you do six or seven storylines. And I would kind of
intercut them, use flashbacks. The idea of why I like the idea of a maybe 10
hour TV thing on this, the one thing you really can’t do on the films is, just
because of mere real estate and time, is you can’t get into the nuance and
complexity that would drive someone to commit a terrible act on this night. What
might be interesting in a TV show is with a flashback narrative, if you start on
Purge Night, but you go back to show how people have gotten to where they are.
Where you see a couple that’s gone haywire on this night, but let’s show
everything that’s led up to this moment of a husband trying to kill a wife – the
cheating, or the accusations of cheating, or money problems. It will be
interesting to show those arcs, those dramatic and complex arcs that get people
to where they pick up a gun or a knife and kill someone else. I think there’s
something cool that we can do with the real estate of TV – 10 hours,
potentially.” That will not be happening anytime soon, however, since Platinum
Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form want to keep the films going even
though the story seemed to have been over after the third film. If there is a
fourth film DeMonaco says he isn’t interested in coming back. |
