With each film in the series making more money than the last, The Purge now seems to be making the move to TV.
Speaking to CinemaBlend, series writer-director James DeMonaco revealed that talks for a "an interwoven anthology" show were at an advanced stage:
"They came to me about a TV show," he explained. "My idea is that you do six or seven storylines. And I would kind of intercut them, use flashbacks."
The Purge series centres on a near-future USA that suspends all laws and emergency services for a 12-hour period once a year.
The main thinking behind the show seems to be based in being able to expand not the history of Purge Night itself, but what would drive someone to take part in the lawless carnage:
"Why I like the idea of a maybe 10 hour TV thing on this," explains DeMonaco, "the one thing you really can't do on the films is, just because of mere real estate and time, is you can't get into the nuance and complexity that would drive someone to commit a terrible act on this night."
"It will be interesting to show those arcs, those dramatic and complex arcs that get people to where they pick up a gun or a knife and kill someone else. I think there's something cool that we can do with the real estate of TV -- 10 hours, potentially."
It's not clear which networks or services have expressed an interest in the series, but DeMonaco told CinemaBlend that it would be more cable-oriented, and is "being taken very seriously from the higher-ups who obviously dictate everything."
We awarded the latest Purge film, Election Year, a 7.5, saying it "not only gives us the best story, set of characters and performances to date, but does a great job expanding on its point of view."
Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and his dad actually started the whole Purge thing. He loves a bit of it. Follow him on Twitter.
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