AMC Opens Writers Rooms For ‘Seconds’ Reimagining With Female Lead, ‘The Devil In Silver’ Horror Anthology

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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has identified its next two strong series contenders. The company is opening writers’ rooms for Seconds, a radical reimagining of the cult classic with a female lead at its center, and psychological horror story The Devil In Silver, envisioned as the first installment in a potential anthology franchise.The projects both hail from creative auspices behind cult AMC drama Halt and Catch Fire and are part of AMC Networks’ focus on producing premium content targeting adults for AMC+, some of it with a genre bent, which is the case with the two new horror-themed prospects.

They are being developed under AMC Networks’ established “scripts-to-series” model, which involves opening writers’ rooms to develop prospective shows, including generating multiple scripts, for straight-to-series consideration.

The two projects, for which AMC commissioned writers rooms last year, Invitation to a Bonfire and Demascus, both went to series.Seconds, based on the novel by David Ely, is from creator, executive producer and showrunner Mark Lafferty, who was writer/supervising producer on Halt and Catch Fire, and executive producers Mark Johnson, through his Gran Via banner, and Melissa Bernstein — both of whom also exec produced Halt and Catch Fire — as well as Peter Douglas.In Seconds, when Claire Munro’s world is suddenly turned upside down, she’s given a chance to start life over with a clean slate.

But can she really leave everything behind, or will she find herself diving back into the mysteries of her past?The 1966 film adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Rock Hudson, is part of Library of Congress’ National Film Registry selection.