The Huffington Post has posted a new interview with producer Roland Emmerich where he talks a bit more about the prospect of a TV spin-off for 2012.

Here are some relevant highlights:

Q: Well, speaking of sequels, the word is that you’re interested in making a TV show called 2013.

RE: Well, that’s different because that’s something like Lost, which has a totally different feel to it. It’s more a little bit of District 9. These ships show up in Africa, there are some survivors and they’re not happy people because they were left behind. Now how do you start off a new society? That has nearly no visual effects. It’s all about characters and what will the future bring, hold for us.

Q: 2013 is going to happen pretty soon after this movie comes out. Do you have any actors or places in mind?

RE: No. We just made a deal with ABC, and we’re very happy about that. I’m already discussing with the people who write it, and tried to help them with what this could be.

The original idea is from Harald, me and Mark Worden [this is actually a typo- he means "Mark Gordon"]. Mark is big on TV. Harald and I had an idea that everyone should do a TV show, because there were a lot of things that we couldn’t incorporate into 2012 and it was so interesting.

What happens after all of this? We couldn’t be riding the script. We had to end it at one point. We left at where they just discovered Africa is still existing and has risen a couple thousand feet, but that’s it. And we ended on a really, really small note about a little girl who overcame her fear in a way. It’s a very small way, which is very important and ends in something very personal.

I think a sequel is silly. There are certain sequels that work for me. But to make a sequel for a disaster movie, the people would expect a certain kind of visual effects. But [for 2012] there would actually be only what’s happening between people, and that you can do a TV show week after week.

You can read the full article here.

Considering the ending of the movie [spoiler warning], would 2013 really be an appropriate title? Of course, Day One is already taken…

Producer Roland Emmerich said a bit more about the proposed 2012 sequel television series with MTV News.

Here’s a video clip:

I may be in the minority here, but I enjoyed 2012 and would be very curious to see what happens next with a new civilization.

In other news, the FX cable channel has bought the rights to air the movie 2012 in 2012. Some media outlets have erroneously said FX has picked up the series, though that doesn’t appear to be the case – at least not yet.

The movie 2012 doesn’t come out until November 13, but that hasn’t stopped one of the movie’s producers from speaking to Entertainment Weekly about a possible television spin-off.

Titled 2013, such a television series would explore what happens after the end of the world. Possible spoilers below from the EW article…

“The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster,” Emmerich told EW while walking the red carpet for the 2012 premiere Tuesday. “It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (2012 writer/producer) Harald Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

Such a big series comes on the heels of the recent huge successful launch of V. ABC’s other genre series, Flashforward, has also done fairly well although it has fallen a little bit in ratings in recent weeks.

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