Premières: January 16, Syfy Terry Gilliam's superlative 1995 dystopian sci-fi thriller film had a pretty definitive ending. The movie was loosely based off of experimental French film La Jetée and saw Bruce Willis as a time traveller sent back from a ruined future to the present day, where he was tasked with discovering the origin of a mysterious plague. Except he gets planted in a mental institution because, well, he keeps claiming he's a time traveller. 12 Monkeys is one of those brilliantly constructed twisty-turny thrillers which all comes together with its ending. Without spoiling anything, it's very much not an ending that's open to interpretation. There wasn't going to be any sequels. And yet Syfy have figured out a way of bringing the story back in an ongoing TV series set to debut this year with a somewhat tweaked premise. Aaron Stanford stars as the time traveller sent back and eventually institutionalised, but the story's going to be stretched out a fair bit. And this time he's teamed not with Brad Pitt's bonkers animal rights activist, but brilliant virologist Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull) and a math genius with mental issues, Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire).
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