You wouldn’t think there would be anything left to make a sequel from after the events of Roland Emmerich’s DisasterPalooza “2012”, especially considering the fact that Emmerich has made no secret about the fact that he makes disaster movies because he hates sequels.

Entertainment Weekly has learned that Emmerich and executive producer Mark Gordon (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice) are developing a television drama titled 2013, which would be about what happens after the disaster of “2012”. Gordon has already entered talks with ABC to develop the series. The show will focus on the aftermath of the cataclysmic events of the film.

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Emmerich says

It’s something like Lost, which has a totally different feel to it. It’s more than a little bit like District 9. These ships show up in Africa and [in] Cape Town there are survivors, and they are not happy people. Because they were left behind. And how do you start a new society? It has no visual effects, it’s all about characters. What will the future bring? Hope for us?

Emmerich said;

“it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it.”

Gordon says;

“I think people would be interested in this topic on a weekly basis,” Gordon said, “There’s hope for the world despite the magnitude of the 2012 disaster as seen in the film. After the movie, there are some people who survive and the question is how will these survivors build a new world and what will it look like. That might make an interesting TV series.

At the end of the film, there is a band of survivors on giant rescue boats. The series follows those boats to Africa, where they land and find survivors of the massive tidal wave that struck the coninent, and they’re none too happy about having been left behind.

Added Emmerich,

“The movie talks about the varied reactions people have in the face of disaster and who should survive and how we carry on and what parts of our culture do we save. The TV show could carry on all that.”