Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Subterranean (aka Pod)

2/3/09 – SCI FI Wire reported that director Marcus Nispel offered details about his proposed underground sci-fi/horror movie, variously called Subterranean and Pod.  "It goes to a long fascination of mine," Nispel said. "I'm a big New York fan, and New York ... goes deeper than it goes high. They have seven, eight sublevels, and as they drill under the bedrock of Manhattan, they find something they never should have come across. It's a Pandora's box, and it's an urban archaeologist that ... knows essentially how to deal with it by knowing the different levels and by playing them."  Nispel says he got the idea when he was still attached to 1999's End of Days. "It was actually on End of Days that I found this location," he said. "We literally would look for forgotten subway stations, and you could only get there with maintenance trains, because so many tunnels would be paralyzed if they would build new buildings. There are levels of the subway grid that are completely insulated or isolated. We went into one, and when I walked in there, we turned the corner, and we had our flashlights there. There ... was a baby grand and a chandelier. ... They had them everywhere. It was classier times."

AlienAlmanac.com 2009