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SyFy have announced they’ve commissioned a pilot episode for a potential SF TV series based on Terry Gilliam’s time-twisting 1995 Brad Pitt-starring movie 12 Monkeys. At the same time, The X-Files creator Chris Carter is eyeing a return to SF TV with The After for the online service Amazon Studios.

The SyFy 12 Monkeys pilot will feature a time traveller from a post-apocalyptic future who arrives in the present day on a mission to find and destroy the source of a deadly plague that will eventually wipe out the human race.

Production on 12 Monkeys begins in November, with a pilot script written by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, whose credits include the TV shows Terra Nova and Nikita.

The After will be Chris Carter’s first TV pilot in over a decade. Carter has written and will direct the pilot episode for this thriller series set at the moment of the apocalypse. The show will be produced in association with Georgeville TV and joins several other Amazon Studio projects.