{"id":184571,"date":"2020-05-28T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=184571"},"modified":"2020-05-31T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T17:16:11","slug":"leigh-whannell-and-tim-walshs-upgrade-television-series-in-development-from-blumhouse-television-and-ucp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2020\/05\/28\/leigh-whannell-and-tim-walshs-upgrade-television-series-in-development-from-blumhouse-television-and-ucp\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Whannell and Tim Walsh&#8217;s Upgrade Television Series in Development from Blumhouse Television and UCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_184572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184572\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2020\/05\/28\/leigh-whannell-and-tim-walshs-upgrade-television-series-in-development-from-blumhouse-television-and-ucp\/leigh-whannell\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-184572\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leigh-Whannell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leigh-Whannell.png 604w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Leigh-Whannell-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-184572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leigh Whannell, the co-creater-writer-director-executive producer of Blumhouse Television and UCP&#8217;s upcoming sci-fi-thriller television series, &#8216;Upgrade.&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2020\/05\/29\/the-undead-battle-in-new-blumhouse-horror-television-series-betaal-on-netflix\/\">Blumhouse Television<\/a> and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are adapting writer-director Leigh Whannell&#8217;s 2018 sci-fi-thriller film, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2018\/05\/30\/interview-leigh-whannell-logan-marshall-green-upgrade-exclusive\/\">Upgrade<\/a>,&#8217; into a television series. The filmmaker is set to return to the franchise to helm the upcoming show.<\/p>\n<p>The drama television series will be set a few years after the events of the movie. The show broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host. The story will be set in world in which the government repurposes STEM to help curb criminal activity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2020\/02\/28\/interview-leigh-whannell-talks-the-invisible-man-exclusive\/\">Whannell<\/a> co-created the &#8216;Upgrade&#8217; television series, and will also serve as an executive producer, with showrunner Tim Walsh (&#8216;Treadstone,&#8217; &#8216;Chicago P.D.,&#8217; &#8216;Shooter&#8217;). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/06\/03\/interview-jason-blum-talks-insidious-chapter-3-exclusive\/\">Jason Blum<\/a>, who previously collaborated with Whannell on the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/06\/05\/interview-leigh-whannell-talks-insidious-chapter-3-exclusive\/\">Insidious<\/a>&#8216; film series, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones from Automatik will also serve as executive producers. Krystal Ziv Houghton and James Roland, who ran the second season of &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2018\/07\/03\/the-first-purge-movie-review-2\/\">The Purge<\/a>&#8216; show, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/blumhouse-tv-and-nbc-news-studio-to-co-produce-scripted-limited-series-on-datelines-the-thing-about-pam\/\">Blumhouse Television<\/a> and UCP previously co-produced together for the USA Network, have joined Whannell and Walsh in &#8216;Upgrade&#8217;s writer&#8217;s room.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2018\/03\/29\/sxsw-2018-interview-ick-offerman-bretty-haley-hearts-beat-loud-exclusive\/\">SXSW<\/a> Audience Award-winning film starred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2019\/11\/02\/interview-logan-marshall-green-adopt-a-highway-exclusive\/\">Logan Marshall-Green<\/a>, Betty Gabriel and Harrison Gilbertson. After his wife was killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Marshall-Green) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure in the form of a computer chip implant called STEM. The implant provides its host with heightened physical abilities, which will allow Grey to exact revenge on those who are responsible for his wife&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blumhouse Television and UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, are adapting writer-director Leigh Whannell&#8217;s 2018 sci-fi-thriller film, &#8216;Upgrade,&#8217; into a television series. The filmmaker is set to return to the franchise to helm the upcoming show. The drama television series will be set a few years after the events of the movie. 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