Twelve Monkeys
Back in the 1990s , when superhero movies were mostly a punchline , Quentin Tarantino had really only two pic under his belt and the estimate of Tom Hanks acquire back - to - back Oscars seemed insane , the greatMonty Pythonalum Terry Gilliam was still struggling to get his films made within the Hollywood studio apartment organization . Then follow the 1995 filmTwelve Monkeys .
Based very loosely on a 1962 French short film calledLa Jetée , Twelve Monkeysfollowed an emotionally disturbed inmate from a macabre , post - apoclayptic future , James Cole ( Bruce Willis ) , who is sent back in time to identify the party responsible for loose a human race - killing plague .
carbon monoxide gas - star Madeleine Stowe as a psychiatrist who comes to believe him and a jittery Brad Pitt as a psychotic person rich kid who masterminds an hush-hush eco - terrorist group called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys , Gilliam ’s parky sci - fi masterpiece may still be his most approachable movie , not to name his last groovy motion picture .
About a twelvemonth ago , we first heard that SyFy was work onwards with a TV series version of12Monkeysin the form of a 90 - minute backdoor pilot . The show was then ordered to serial publication , and now we have the first laggard for12 Monkeys , which you could watch above .
This fresh take on12 Monkeysstars Aaron Stanford ( Pyro inX - Men : The Last Stand ) as Cole , Amanda Schull ( lawsuit ) as Stowe ’s character Dr. Railly and Kirk Acevedo ( Rise of the Planet of the Apes ) as an manifest supporter of Cole ’s . From what we can make out in the trailer , Cole looks to be more of a volunteer this metre around , and was evidently sent back in time by Railly herself .
Fans of the ' 95 moving-picture show may neglect Gilliam’ssignature surrealism and warped worldview , but this12 Monkeysis being head by sure - handed idiot box veterans in the variety ofNikitaandTerra Novaalumni Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas and appear to vary significantly from its reference material . Not only does Cole seem far more mentally coherent , but his large mission seems to be to locate one Leland Frost , played here by character reference actor extraordinaire Zeljko Ivanek ( True Blood ) , with plentitude of mystery story still untouched .
Premieres January 16 on Syfy
For instance , the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is only teased visually , and the whole prevue propose that there ’s at least one whole level of conspiracy still yet to be uncover . While the evident production value and tone seem to tippytoe into cornball territory here and there , there should be enough intrigue here to lure fans of the movie - out of peculiarity , if nothing else .
12 Monkeyspremieres on SyFy in January of 2015 .
