Telemystery: SyFy Orders Pilot for Adaptation of 12 Monkeys

SyFy has ordered a series pilot for an adaptation of the 1995 time travel thriller 12 Monkeys.

In the original film, Bruce Willis stars as a convicted criminal living in a post-apocalyptic future in which most of the Earth's surface is contaminated by a virus that was believed to have been released in 1996. He agrees to travel back in time to discover the source of the virus, an organization he later identifies as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, led by a animal rights activist named Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt).

Filming of a screenplay by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett (Terra Nova; Nikita) is expected to begin in November.