Lionsgate Opens The Panopticon

A new sci-fi thriller planned

Lionsgate Opens The Panopticon

by James White |
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Lionsgate was clearly happy with the job done by Peter Cornwell, the man chosen to direct The Haunting In Connecticut, as the studio still wants to be in business with him. He'll follow up the horror with a sci-fi thriller, The Panopticon.

Written as a spec script by The **Uninivted'**s Craig Rosenberg, it focuses on a salesman who receives a pre-recorded message from himself. It doesn't remind him to buy eggs and cheese, though - it warns him of the end of the world and how he must prevent it.

Despite the name (which, in its original form, means a prison setup where all the inmates can be observed without their knowledge) there's no indication as to whether the script ever goes to a prison or any other structure with that sort of design*, but we'll find out…

*We're pretty sure it's not set in one of the central chambers of belonging to Dr Who's Time Lords, though. We'll get our anorak.

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