NBC is entering the world of cryogenics with its latest development project. Find out more:
The network has bought a script fromexecutive producer David Slack about an enigmatic billionaire and a group of people who have had their bodies frozen. The billionaire gathers more than 250 such people, who have attempted to cheat death by undergoing the freezing process in hopes that a future medical breakthrough will someday allow them to be brought back to life.
As these people from different moments in time wake up, however, they come to realize you can't cheat death without paying a price. Slack is writing the Sony Pictures TV effort and will executive produce with Josh Berman, Chris King and director Phillip Noyce (
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