Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Blank Slate
6/23/08 - TNT has commissioned Dean Devlin to produce Blank Slate, an 80-minute original SF crime thriller that Devlin will edit into 20 short episodes for prime-time play in September 2008. Lisa Brenner will star as an amnesiac who becomes part of an experimental FBI program dedicated to solving murders by implanting memories of the recently deceased into the living. Eric Stoltz and Clancy Brown also star. TNT will schedule Blank Slate starting on two consecutive Tuesdays and Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 8. TNT will also promote the show's availability on TNT.tv, where the microseries will become a series of webisodes.
05/19/08 - Eric Stoltz will team with Dean Devlin for the SF TV movie Blank Slate, directed by John Harrison, which will serve as a backdoor pilot; the movie centers on an amnesiac death row inmate, played by Lisa Brenner, who is recruited as part of an experimental unit of the FBI and implanted with the final memories of murder victims.
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