Sci-Fi Bulletin: Exploring the Universes of SF, Fantasy, Horror and Spy-fi!

After achieving an international hit with The Walking Dead, AMC are looking for a new genre series, and have purchased Thunderstruck, a new hour-long UFO drama from The Exorcism of Emily Rose‘s Paul Boardman and Scott Derrickson and Battlestar Galactica‘s David Eick.

According to the report at Deadline, the new series is about “powerful and enigmatic entities that begin appearing all over  the world.After one shows up in the town of Great Falls, Montana, the local citizens must grapple with the dramatic effects and growing mystery of repeated visitations.” Derrickson will direct the pilot episode.

Eick is already working on the new TV version of the Hulk with Guillermo del Toro, and the series Inhuman at HBO.