Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor developing sci-fi miniseries

Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor developing sci-fi miniseries
September 29, 2010
heraldsun.com.au

NINE Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor is developing a science-fiction miniseries based on his album Year Zero.

The Year Zero miniseries will be produced by Lawrence Bender, producer of several Quentin Tarantino films, and Kelly Brown, executive producer of the TV series Roswell, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Daniel Knauf, writer of the HBO series Carnivale, is writing the script.

"It's exciting. I probably shouldn't say too much about it except that I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing," Reznor said. "I've learned that [television development] moves at a glacial pace."

Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero, released in 2007, is a sci-fi concept album set in a dystopian 2022. Reznor said on the Nine Inch Nails website that the story deals with "erosion of freedoms" and "the way that we [the United States] treat the rest of the world and our own citizens."

The album was promoted with a viral campaign that included messages hidden on the prints of tour T-shirts, a network of websites relating to the Year Zero story, and USB drives containing songs and hidden messages left in public bathrooms around the world