Zoo Anticipation: Dread Thread

[Meredith Quill]

Anticipate Here!

[shapeshifter]

According to http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/27/zoo-taps-geoff-stults-multi-episode-arc, George Stultz

will play Agent Ben Shafer, a rogue FBI agent who is investigating the wave of bizarre animal attacks, but whose methods and motivation complicate things greatly for our heroes.

I hope he gets to add a little light-heartedness to it, because if there's zero humor, I'm out.

[shapeshifter]

Yesterday (March 18, 2015) in Variety, an article titled "‘Zoo’ on CBS Hopes to Make the Fans ‘Fear Their Schnauzers’" stated:

“We really want the whole world to fear their schnauzers,” executive producer Scott Rosenberg said of the adaptation of James Patterson’s novel about what happens when animals turn the tables on the humans who have hunted, trapped and terrorized them for centuries.

So either CBS is providing that vision, or the article title is an example of miss-attribution and/or publication editors screwing with article titles.

Regardless, I don't have a schnauzer, but if that's what it's like, I'm not watching.

OTOH, if it winds up being as silly as Sharknado, I'll watch for the hilarity.

But looking at the preview from this Hollywood Reporter article that mentions that the executive producer is Fringe's Jeff Pinker, makes me think I'll be tuning out pretty quickly.

On the third hand, this article quotes the source book author (James Patterson) as claiming

"the audience will find out that in a strange way, the animals are the heroes,"

which would be kind of cool even if it was pretty horrific with no intentional or accidental comic relief.

All the previews show blackness from the lion's pupil flowing into the iris, which should effectively blind the animals and make them pretty harmless. So maybe it will just be Sharknado stupid.

Wouldn't they premier it in the fall if they thought it was really well done?

Edited May 19, 2015 by shapeshifter

[hardy har]

Not gonna lie, I saw an ad for this show and thought it was a joke. Color me surprised to learn that it's real and there are people in it who are pretty awesome. I just . . . don't see how this could work unless it's campy fun, but the ads certainly seemed to be very serious. I'll probably check it out out of sheer curiosity, but my hopes are far from high. It doesn't help that it immediately made me think of the notoriously awful "monkey in the basketball" SVU episode either, but still.

[peacheslatour]

If it's about a war between humans and animals and we have to see people killing these beautiful animals....well then just a big old NOPE.

[Hanahope]

It sounds a bit like the M. Night Shamamylan (whatever) movie where trees and plans attacked humans.

 

So really, a lion wouldn't attack a human before whatever caused this "change?"

[Petunia13]

If it's about a war between humans and animals and we have to see people killing these beautiful animals....well then just a big old NOPE.

Yea count me out. Also there's enough people out the fetishize and enjoy harming animals (from abuse, to dog fighting, to big game hunting, o torture porn) thy really shouldn't put something out there to entice those creeps.

[portfino]

The whole ad campaign looks like one of those early 90s miniseries that used to run every sweeps based on a beach novel.

[BusyOctober]

Looks like CBS is trying to earn some of the Sharknado cash with the "fear the anilmals" hook

[KLovestoShop]

From the previews I've read, they're going to depart quite a bit from the book, so I'm not going to be interested in this show if that's the case.  Loved the book, despite having to suspend belief.  But, if it's anything like they've done to bastardize  Under The Dome, I'm definitely not going to watch.  Under The Dome was never meant to be a three or four or five season show, and they've totally ruined the book.  That kind of thing really pisses me off.  The powers that be have a hit show, and then they ruin it by extending that show beyond what it should be.  According to CBS, they are not going to follow the book and its resolution of the problem one iota.  That sucks.  

[Actionmage]

But...James Wolk !  ::continues to splash I the beach entry end of the pool :: 

 

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3436678656/nm2312345?ref_=nmmd_md_pv

[Neurochick]

So if the animals want to rise up and take over, which animals would be the leaders?  And what about the cockroaches?  Maybe that would be a better movie, "Attack of the Killer Cockroaches."

[DeLurker]

That's for winter sweeps.

But I'll give this a try because James Wolk surprised me by being delightfully funny in The Crazy Ones.