IN DEVELOPMENT: "The Purge"

[Zorkel567]

Dude, it’s so weird you bring that up. Yes! Not an anthology… I guess kind of an anthology — more of an interwoven anthology. They came to me about a TV show, my idea is that you do six or seven storylines. And I would kind of intercut them, use flashbacks.

The idea of why I like the idea of a maybe 10 hour TV thing on this, the one thing you really can’t do on the films is, just because of mere real estate and time, is you can’t get into the nuance and complexity that would drive someone to commit a terrible act on this night. Whether it’s revenge or out of passion, but what might be interesting in a TV show is with a flashback narrative, if you start on Purge Night but you go back to show how people have gotten to where they are. Where you see a couple that’s gone haywire on this night, but let’s show everything that’s led up to this moment of a husband trying to kill a wife — the cheating or the accusations of cheating or money problems. It will be interesting to show those arcs, those dramatic and complex arcs that get people to where they pick up a gun or a knife and kill someone else. I think there’s something cool that we can do with the real estate of TV — 10 hours, potentially.

They’re far ahead on the TV front… pretty far ahead. Not to get into the nuance of how it all goes down, we’re talking about deals right now, money is being spoken about. Things like that. So I think it’s being taken very seriously from the higher-ups who obviously dictate everything.

-James DeMonaco

Purge TV Series in the Works

[Naiera]

I'd tune in.

[Hubunkey]

A Purge series that shows the other crimes besides murder would be nice

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by Hubunkey

A Purge series that shows the other crimes besides murder would be nice

that's why I didn't watch the other Purge movies, I kept thinking "all these people would rather kill everybody instead of looting stores or robbing banks?" lol

[Naiera]

Banks and such are obviously locked down tightly so they'd be impossible to rob. Stores would have armed guards with more firepower than you.

The Purge is intended for people to kill. To get THE RAGE out of their* blood once a year. Officially, at least. Unofficially, it's meant for poor and homeless people to be killed in droves, so they don't drag down the country. You'd know this if you'd watched the movies.


*Trump voters