‘Upgrade’ Producer Dishes On the TV Sequel That Almost Was

Leigh Whannell’s Sci-Fi Movie Fans upgrade You might remember that there was a time when it seemed that a sequel would be made. It was announced, then reworked into a TV series, and then… nothing, no glimpse until last year when Whannell said the film would be ready once it was made. What’s the deal there?

Well, according to the film’s creator Tim Walsh, who was chosen to write and show the series, the show faced several hurdles before being canned. As he recently told BloodyDisgusting, he and Whannell sold the project to Peacock in 2019. It was a “turbulent time” in the world then, as he started his writer’s room “on the day” when the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

there was another obstacle upgrade The show’s story: It follows four recent criminals who have been implanted with a STEM chip in the hopes of reforming them, as A Clockwork Orange. Walsh believes it would have been risky to air it at a time when shows about police and criminals were “not popular”, possibly a reference to the protests against police brutality in recent years and discussion of television’s role in sanitizing them. But the biggest killer for the project was being above his pay grade – as he explains, the writers were ready and the script was ready when a higher up was fired. Then his final replacement “came in, thought they knew everything, and left the project.”

This is where Walsh’s involvement with the show ended, and he candidly stated that it “still hurts” that it did not get made, although he is sure that efforts were made to revive it without him. Despite how bad things got, he still wants to team up with Whannell again, so maybe someday he’ll get a chance at a revival upgrade To project or superimpose its elements onto something else.

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