Roland Emmerich is bring his end of the world disasters from the movie theater to the living room.
Variety reports that ABC has given the green light to a pilot directed by Emmerich.
Written with Harald Kloser, who collaborated with Emmerich on the stalled Singularity movie, the show is set in New York City, the story is set against the backdrop of the presidential race of 2012, when a young astrophysics student learns his destiny lies not in science but somewhere between heaven and hell.
If the series gets an order it could air as early as this fall.
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