HBO to Air Series Created by Trent Reznor?

So sayeth the rumors, or at least that a meeting to pitch HBO a series based on Reznor's Year Zero alternate-reality game went quite well.

Can Trent Reznor’s TV Show Save HBO?

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Maybe! According to an interview in the L.A. Times, Vulture buddy (and Nine Inch Nails front man) Trent Reznor recently took a meeting with HBO to pitch them a TV show based on the alternate-reality game he created for his 2007 album Year Zero. "It went great," says Trent, who isn't typically known for irrational optimism. "Will it happen? I don't know. It was fun sitting and telling [the HBO] guys and watching them shake their head and having writers on board and producers that are into it."

Zero was a concept record about a dystopian future in which George W. Bush declares himself dictator for life, drugs the American water supply, and wages war on subversives (industrial musicians are too subversives!). Its accompanying viral-marketing campaign was spooky, complex, and reasonably well thought out (read more here), though who knows if it can actually sustain its own TV show. Quentin Tarantino partner Lawrence Bender is producing, so maybe this thing really does have some potential. Here's hoping HBO passes so AMC can pick it up and turn it into the next Greatest Show of All Time.

Trent Reznor's 'Year Zero' may be an HBO series [LAT via /Film]

Here's a video from the album, just for fun.

Survivalism

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