EXCLUSIVE: ‘Parallels’ Might Still Go to Series

As a reviewer, I am unsure how I feel about tagging the artists involved in a linked tweet. In theory I want them to know their work is recognized, whether I liked it or not. In practice I feel like an eager kid in high school gym class jumping up and down to get picked, and they roll their eyes as they “Fine, you.”

Today, tagging tweets paid off. When I tweeted my review of the new film Parallels — where I lamented the pilot-turned-movie should have stayed as a TV series — director Christopher Leone reached out to me with an “exclusive.”

@EricTheDragon @geekscapedotnet Plans for a series are still VERY MUCH in the works.

— Christopher Leone (@ChristophrLeone) March 3, 2015

Can’t really say it’s an “exclusive” since it’s a public tweet, BUT it was to me so suck it, this is an exclusive.

Beyond this tweet from the director himself, there are no other details I am aware of. I do not know what Fox executives thought of the movie, nor do I know if Parallels performed well enough on Netflix to get buzz. It still has various VOD platforms to hit way later this month. Furthermore, Constance Wu’s Polly was a crucial character, but if Parallels gets picked up what does it mean for the critically-acclaimed Fresh Off the Boat? Too many questions with barely enough information to make educated guesses.

Still, this is pretty exciting. As I stated in my review, Parallels‘s premise lends itself to a continuing series that has the potential to be a successor to Sliders. It’s just too big to stay as one movie, and I hope it gets the chance to grow.

Stay tuned with Geekscape as we learn more. You can read my review of the movie here.