Slingers "...your new favourite TV show"
This post title is a quote from well respected, award winning creator of graphic novels Warren Ellis 'Slingers' exists currently as a Sizzler, a show reel if you like to wet the appetites of the industry, but wowsers! All involved have been bowled over with the response since it's release on Vimeo this week, where views hit over 20,000 in hours!
Tis a lovely thing indeed. Growed up British Sci-Fi set in 2263 A.D mixed with a large slice of 'Hustle'. Personally cannot wait for a feature length pilot in 2010 Further details after the video...
SLINGERS from Mike Sizemore on Vimeo.
From Sleepydog:
"Slingers is anything but just another science fiction show. Think the action of Bullitt, the sophistication of Ocean's 11 and the humour of M*A*S*H all wrapped in a futuristic package and you have an idea of the potential of Slingers.
Slingers is set in the year 2263 A.D., following mankind's first interplanetary war. Humanity is now clustered into a finite, but still vast section of the universe known as Enclosed Space. Humanity won the war with an aggressive alien enemy, but at a cost. The way back to Earth is now cut off by an impassable barrier - a side effect of the blast that finally pushed the enemy back.
The show takes its name from a group of people thrown together on board an experimental spacecraft that is capable of Slinging itself to any point in space. In theory it's the only craft capable of getting home. In reality the crew are using it to carry out a series of high tech heists and get even with those who are now exploiting their positions in the post war hierarchy.
Dominic 'DM' Monroe, a special ops war veteran becomes the de facto leader of this small team of thieves who rail against the decision by military command to just 'stay where they are and make the best of it'. They're determined to get home and if that means breaking a few rules and picking up a lot of enemies along the way then so be it.
Slingers is not your traditional science fiction show. It uses the trappings of the genre as background, but at its heart it has more in common with classic heist movies and the style of Sinatra's Rat Pack. Exciting, visually stunning, and in turn both funny and poignant, the show is quite different from anything that has come before. It already has an overall arc planned that would see it well into three seasons, allowing the characters to become as well developed and loved as those in Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Alias."
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