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'2012' television series in the works: PHOTO

UPI - 5th Nov 2009

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Roland Emmerich: NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- German-born director Roland Emmerich says a U.S. television series is being planned to follow up his new global disaster flick "2012." Co-starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Oliver Platt, the science-fiction movie was penned by Emmerich and Harald Kloser. The pair produced the film with Mark Gordon and Larry Franco. "(The idea for a series) was just born out of, in a way, like Harald and I and Mark Gordon, who is big in TV, saying, 'Wouldn't it be an incredible TV...

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