Fans will be divided.
If there’s one thing that horror fans know, it’s that evil never dies and that a sequel is always inevitable.
Much like Saw, Insidious and Paranormal Activity, the Purge films have proven themselves to be incredibly popular with audiences as the lifetime grosses of the films – according to Box-Office Mojo – are as following, The Purge ($64,473,115), The Purge: Anarchy ($71,962,800), The Purge: Election Year ($79,213,375).
See, it pays to give people one night of the year where they can literally beat the living shit out of each other.
With a fourth film on its way and a new TV show being developed, the Purge franchise is showing no signs of slowing down in its thirst for blood and politically-charged vigilantly violence.
Jason Blum, who produced the movies through his Blumhouse banner, has given a relatively small but significant update regarding the TV adaptation.
He said that the show “will reveal to the fans what happens the other 364 days of the year and how that law affects people.”
Essentially, this will focus on all the other, non-Purge days of the year.
Blum added that the show is being made simultaneously with the fourth film in the series, something that “as far as we know, we don’t think [has] ever been done before.”
The TV show is expected to be a 10-hour anthology in its first season, which is being developed for USA and Syfy.
We’re also promised that the “New Founding Fathers,” who govern the United States with an authoritarian fist, will be more central to the plot as the true purpose of the Purge becomes more apparent.
Mmm, a Purge TV show without the actual purge. You’ll have to wait until 2018 to see what it’s like.
