Watch the skies because something new is about to land: Ahead of
Debris premiere next month, SYFY WIRE is exclusively debuting the key art to the upcoming UFO mystery series arriving on NBC.
The show hails from Joel Howard J.H. Wyman, showrunner and executive producer of J.J. Abrams
Fringeand creator of
Almost Human. Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele co-star as Bryan Beneventi and Finola Jones, two international agents from different backgrounds who are tasked with tracking down the strange wreckage of an alien craft that starts messing with the very laws of our reality.
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Credit: NBC
As it happens,
Fringe was also shot in Vancouver. But Wyman told reporters that while there are certainly odd phenomenon and science-related anomalies connecting both shows,
Debris has a very different thematic exploration.
“For me, this is a new concept in things I’m trying to say,” Wyman explained. “This is a very different concept. It’s dealing with what I am going through now because there is always my DNA in the show. And I love my fans from
Fringe so there is something in this for them, but it’s also its own thing.”
Asked about why he’s come back to broadcast TV with the series, when many creatives head to streaming or cable to tell their sci-fi centric stories, Wyman said it was important to keep these kinds of stories on regular television too. He noted that NBC was immediately encouraging and felt, as he does, that sci-fi is really mainstream now.
David Giler, a veteran Hollywood producer known for his involvement with the long-running
Alien franchise at 20th Century Fox, has passed away at the age of 77. According to a spokesman for his production company, Brandywine Productions, the writer-producer died at his home in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday, Dec. 19 after a battle with cancer.
Along with Walter Hill and Gordon Carroll, Giler co-founded Brandywine in the early 1960s. The company has been involved with every single
Alien project to date, including the 1979 original directed by Ridley Scott, all the way up to Scott s
Alien: Covenant in 2017. Giler and Hill also did an uncredited rewrite on Dan O Bannon s screenplay for the first movie (added to the National Film Registry in 2002) and received story credit on 1986 s