News is coming in from the Comic Con 2010 Falling Skies Panel.
TNT gives sneak of Spielberg’s ‘Falling Skies’
by James Hibberd
TNT's mysterious alien invasion drama produced by Steven Spielberg became a lot less mysterious by the end of its Comic-Con panel.
"Falling Skies" looks pretty ... familiar. Earth is attacked by bad guys from outer space, 80% of the population is destroyed, a ragtag group of survivors fight back.
One storytelling item: We won't see the invasion itself (TNT has money ... but not that much money), but instead the story will begin in the aftermath. The show uses kids' drawings to depict what happened which, as low-cost solutions to showing the end of the world go, is a pretty neat one.
TNT promised "Skies" will be the "Television Event of 2011," so it's setting the bar pretty high.
"These become the architects of the next Constitution," said star Noah Wylie, bearded. "If we had something hit the reset button what are the aspects we'd want to retain from the life before?"
As for what the aliens want, exec prod Mark Verheiden said, "We know what they want, and we're not going to tell you."
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Comic-Con: 'The Cape,' 'Teen Wolf,' 'Falling Skies' and the great unknown
by Alan Sepinwall.
"Falling Skies": This is probably the highest-profile of the three, in that it's produced by Steven Spielberg ("BSG" vet Mark Verheiden is the active showrunner), stars Noah Wyle and Moon Bloodgood, is about the aftermath of an alien invasion of Earth and will no doubt get a huge promotional push from TNT when it launches next June.
It also got the most enthusiastic response of the three - still modest compared to "Walking Dead" (or even "Hawaii Five-0"), but clearly positive. It helped that we only got a sizzle reel, which means they could cut together the best footage from the pilot (including several glimpses of celebrity boot camp maestro and sometime-actor Dale Dye) without having to pause for exposition or characterization.
The series picks up six months after aliens have taken over Earth for reasons unknown. Wyle plays a suddenly-widowed Boston University history professor who finds himself leading a resistance cell (and frequently talking about the American Revolution), while Bloodgood is a pediatrician who lost her husband and daughter in the invasion.
Verheiden liked the idea of picking up well after the invasion itself (which is the period most of these stories take place in), because, "Our people are trying to catch up as much as the audience will be."
There were a few good laugh lines from the panel - Bloodgood at one point said, "I've always thought of myself as a masculine person," and, when asked whom she would most want on her side against an alien invasion, suggested, "Samuel L. Jackson" - and Verheiden and Wyle sounded smart in discussing ways in which the show will be different from the dozens of similar movies and TV shows, and the crowd (a packed room after the sparseness of "Teen Wolf") seemed pleased at the conclusion.
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