New series Minority Report: first trailer and featurette
Probably no one saw this future for Minority Report in 2002: the successful science fiction thriller continues as a series. A first trailer and a behind-the-scenes video make you want more.
Minority Report: Two new trailers for the SciFi show
The film Minority Report drew a dystopian future with the PreCrime system, in which three children with clairvoyant abilities predict crimes and thus prevent them. Even 15 years after the release of the film, this scenario with all its critical facets is still being discussed - especially when it comes to real alternatives such as data retention and digital forensics.
With such a long-running topic, it is surprising that it took so long to continue Minority Report. A first trailer finally shows what the successor series will look like, introduces the characters and the basic ideas of the futuristic cop show and above all draws chic pictures of the world. Fox also provides a background video in which actors and producers provide a little additional information.
Stark Sands and Lara Vega as Buddy Cops in Minority Report
The series takes place in 2065, ten years after the film. The PreCrime project has since been discontinued and the three clairvoyants, the Precogs, have been released into a more or less normal life. Dashiell (played by Stark Sands) is one of the three and is still plagued by his suspicions, but fails to try to help the victims in his visions. The PreCrime system only worked because the three seers created a usable picture together, he alone has only fragments and cannot do anything with them. That also seems to be a central theme of the series: His equally clairvoyant twin brother Arthur seems to be untraceable.
As part of the trailer, Dash meets Lara Vega (Megan Good), a commissioner who sees working with Dash as an opportunity to effectively prevent crime and save lives. The clever cop can do more with Dash's information and plunge into action-packed criminal hunts with him. In addition, it will probably also be about the history of the Precogs and, of course, about the future of humanity in general and police work in particular.
Minority Report: TV budget for Spielberg vision
Minority Report will be the first implementation of a Spielberg film as a TV show. Of course that means a different budget, but what can be seen in the trailer so far promises to be a thematically exciting as well as visually appealing program. The team dynamics are already emerging and promise humor, drama and potential for conflict - and of course a lot of police action.
How well all of this actually works and whether Fox is once again pulling the plug early will be shown in autumn 2015 when the minority report celebrates its TV premiere.