'Minority Report' News, Update: Series Writer Max Borenstein Talks On the Rules of The Show's Precognition
"Minority Report," like most of the TV series that are being adapted from their big screen counterparts, faces the challenge of having to tread lightly on the premise that their respective movie titles had already set. For the upcoming Fox series, the issue of precognition will be the same but with some twist.
Citing the report from Screen Rant, it is said that the show, which takes place exactly 10 years after the disbandment of the Precrime division at the end of the 2002 Tom Cruise-led film, will seek to provide the answer as to how Dash (Stark Sands) will be able to help Lara Vega (Meagan Good) in preventing crimes without the collective efforts of the precogs.
Dash is one of the three precogs consisting of his twin brother Arthur (Nick Zano) and a fellow psychic named Agatha.
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SR said that to answer this issue, viewers might see one or two actors from the movie appearing into the show.
As for how Dash will be able to impart his Precrime abilities to the authorities, series writer Max Borenstein revealed to SlashFilm (via SR) that "every situation is going to be different, depending on the level of premeditation."
"Like in the film, you either get more time to deal with it or less. Depending on the amount that you've intervened in the course of events directly that leads to it, you may have less time to see that future because something you did is what's causing it," he told /Film (via SR).
Borenstein added the rule that the show's precogs won't be able to see their own futures because "at every moment" they meditate on what's to come, they are "interacting with that future."
There are things however, the scribe added, from the movie that they won't want to overlap in the small screen program.
"All that backstory, we don't want it to overwhelm our series off the bat," Borenstein said, referring to the events that the precogs had went through in the film.
"Minority Report" premieres this Monday, September 21 at 9/8c on Fox.
