Scanners

On the data. Five films, and the first one is the only one anyone made on purpose. Cronenberg wrote and directed the 1981 film and was involved in none of the sequels. He has said he had no interest in them and would not have profited from characters he created. He still holds enough say that a 2007 remake at Dimension, with Darren Lynn Bousman directing and David Goyer writing, died without his approval. Of the four sequels, one is real. Scanners II gives its lead the original film's two leads for parents. Scanners III shares a director, a writer and one bit part actor with the second film and nothing else. Scanner Cop starts again in America with a new lead, and Scanners: The Showdown is its direct sequel. That last title is the single most common mistake in lists of this series. Scanners: The Showdown and Scanner Cop II are the same 1995 film under two names. If a list shows six Scanners films, that is why. The third film is dated 1991 in some places and 1992 in others. No Scanners television series has ever been made. There have been three attempts: Dimension in 2011, Media Res and Bron in 2017, and HBO in September 2022 with Cronenberg attached as a producer. None has produced an episode and the HBO project has gone quiet.

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