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by Jason Barr Posted:March 8th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
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At this point, news of J.J. Abrams having a television series greenlit is similar to news about rain being wet. Nevertheless, we’re obliged to let our readers know that Fox has ordered 12 episodes of Abrams’ latest creepy island series, Alcatraz. News of the episode order comes courtesy of Dan Wright at Metro Van Films who also confirmed the show’s upcoming Vancouver shoot, tweeting:
JJ Abrams’ “Alcatraz” greenlit for 12 episodes. Filming in Vancouver next month. #yvrshoots
For those unfamiliar with the series, Alcatraz stars Sarah Jones, Sam Neill, Jorge Garcia, Jason Butler Harner, and Jonny Coyne Head, and follows FBI agents and a female police officer as they track down a group of missing prisoners who disappeared thirty years prior. The pilot script was penned by Elizabeth Sarnoff who also serves as showrunner on the series while sharing executive producing credit with Abrams.
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Now I’m ticked I can’t afford Comic Con this year. I might have had the chance to meet Sam Neill!
I live in Vancouver so i’m happy that they are filming here… BUT… you would think a show called Alcatraz would be filmed in… oh i dunno… San Francisco!?
it’ll be like “The Room” where they occasionally show a bunch of crappy second unit shots of the golden gate bridge
CGI, baby. Lots of crappy CGI and green screen…
This story is obviously not true. And considering the source collider should be ashamed. Clearly they need eyeballs printing a story based off some random dudes twitter feed. If it was true don’t you think deadline or some reputable sight wouldve picked up the story. Now, that’s not say it wont happen eventually. But not yet for sure.
The First On-set video here:
http://www.youtube.com/THEROCKALCATRAZ