Hollywoodreporter.com is reporting that Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment, will be making a two-hour movie for Sci Fi. “Unfinished Business” will be a crime drama “about an ex-cop who starts seeing flashes of memories from the recently deceased.”
If successful, the movie could serve as a backdoor pilot for a series, similar to the Battlestar Galactica mini-series a few years ago. Sci Fi has a couple other projects taking this approach – “The Phantom” and “Riverworld.”
“Unfinished Business” will also be Sci Fi’s first crime procedural since “The Dresden Files,” a show I wish had been around longer. If we’re lucky, this will be a solid reunion of the science-fiction and procedural genres.
Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com