Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Gemini Division
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7/11/08 - Brent Friedman of Electric Farm Entertainment said recently that Electric Farm's new online series Gemini Division is set "two minutes in the future" in a world where biotechnology is starting to get out of control. Starring Rosario Dawson, Gemini Division consists of 50 three- to four-minute episodes that will begin streaming on NBC.com and SCIFI.COM in August. Dawson plays New York vice cop Anna Diaz, who witnesses the brutal murder of her fiance, Nick (Justin Hartley), only to discover he wasn't a human being at all but an artificial life form called a "simulant." She soon crosses paths with the title Gemini Division, a secret government organization tracking a group of simulants who have gone rogue and are hiding among the human population. Friedman explained that the simulants were the product of a lengthy research program that was eventually appropriated by the military. The military then made other modifications to turn them into artificial soldiers. They became "a stopgap to get them out of the Iraq crisis," Friedman said. "But one platoon of them went AWOL. They spread out all over the planet, and, unbeknownst to the general public, who has no idea that this experiment ever took place, they have assimilated with us and are in the process of staging a large terror plot. Or so we're led to believe." One of the military modifications was a device called an experience core, installed in the simulants' brains, which records everything the simulant experiences. The idea was to download periodically all of the data to get a "complete, full, three-dimensional composite of Iraq," Friedman. But now that the simulants have gone rogue, the Gemini Division wants very badly to recover their cores intact in order to learn what they've been up to. Gemini Division is set to begin its online run daily beginning Aug. 18.
05/09/08 - NBC Universal has signed a deal with Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky's Electric Farm Entertainment for the rights to their upcoming Internet SF series Gemini Division, starring Rosario Dawson. Sony Pictures TV International has come aboard to co-produce and distribute the series internationally on mobile, broadband and traditional TV. Under the deal with NBC Universal Digital Studio, the 50 three-minute episodes of Gemini will run on various company Web sites, including NBC.com. Gemini, eyed for a late-summer launch, stars Dawson as a New York cop who uncovers a global conspiracy involving the creation of simulated life forms that have assimilated into an unsuspecting population.
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