O’Bannon Develops Blur

Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)

We reported on the possibility of this new project almost a year ago on one of our Slice of SciFi shows. SCI FI Wire offers up a followup to that story.

Veteran writer-producer Rockne S. O’Bannon has teamed with producer Warren Littlefield and reality wizards Magical Elves for “Blur,” a fantasy drama project set up at ABC and Touchstone TV.

Blur is set behind the scenes of a company that specializes in creating elaborate fantasies for its clients. It is inspired by the real-life company Vascorp, whose executives are expected to receive executive-consultant credits on the show.

Another O’Bannon project for the Showtime Cable Network is Prince, ” which has been described as the “anti-Lassie,” about a family with a brilliant but evil dog. In addition to picking up the O’Bannon spec, Showtime has ordered a second script of the project, which O’Bannon is writing and executive-producing.

O’Bannon wrote the 1988 feature Alien Nation, which spawned a slew of TV movies and a TV series. He also created SCI FI’s Farscape, and lest we forget, the TV series seaQuest.