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David's original idea 'Telepathy 2000'

posted 16 years ago by wallacesawyer
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A very early treatment from 1976, entitled "Telepathy 2000" takes place in the future, begins with the protagonist (who is named Harley Quinn) telepathically raping a woman in a subway, and was set as a spy movie. In this version, a company called Cytodyne Amalgamate was breeding evil Scanners to take over the world and the U.S. Government was employing good Scanners to stop them.

Now why didn't Gronenberg make this into a sequel or something? This would've been cool to see.

I'm not opposed to it being a SCANNERS reboot.

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[–] wallacesawyer 15 years ago

bump

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[–] TheEnigmaticRonin 15 years ago

Because Cronenberg is against the idea of sequels

" Look, there's two women fuc*ing a polar bear!" - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas 1998

[–] wallacesawyer 15 years ago

We all know his decision won't stop a remake/reboot anyway.

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[–] collectivevoid 11 years ago

begins with the protagonist (who is named Harley Quinn)

Heh