Earlier today, MTV reaffirmed its greenlight of Al Gough and Miles Millar’s adaptation of Terry Brooks’ Shannara novels. Now the “Smallville” creators have another TV series in the works on another network.
AMC has picked up Millar and Gough’s “Badlands” with a six episode straight-to-series order. This is only the third time that AMC has bypassed the pilot stage and gone straight-to-series. “The Walking Dead” and “Better Call Saul” were the two previous occasions.
“Badlands” is a martial arts drama that is loosely based on the iconic Chinese story, Journey To The West. The “Badlands” TV series will focus on a young boy and a great warrior as they look for enlightenment while undertaking a dangerous journey. Daniel Wu (Tai Chi Zero) and Stephen Fung will executive produce “Badlands” alongside Michael Shamberg (Contagion), Stacy Sher, Millar and Gough.
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In a statement, AMC’s Executive Vice President, Joel Stillerman said “We are incredibly excited to help Al and Miles, as well as Stacey and Michael from Double Feature to bring Badlands to life. This creative team has so much expertise in bringing a fresh take to classic genres from their film and television experience, and their take on martial arts will be no exception. Along with a beautiful story, they’ve also assembled the A-Team of martial arts fight choreography in Daniel Wu and Stephen Fung.”
“Badlands” is expected to premiere on AMC in late 2015 or in early 2016.
