Gamer and Crank Boys to do Zeroes for NBC

It’s a show about crisis situations, with each episode taking place at the end of the crisis and bypassing all that dull build-up stuff that usually accompanies said crisis situations on TV shows. You know, lots of talking, lots of button pushing, and lots of gradual panicking? When all that’s out of the way, in will drop the Zeroes, described as a team of “absolutely ruthless” guys who will deal with the situation at hand with good old fashion brute force. That’s the idea behind “Zeroes”, which “Crank” and “Gamer” writers/directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor are developing for NBC.

Says Taylor:

“We want to drop right into it and sustain the absolute most berserk state of crisis, when all of the options have been exhausted. We want to take that last 60 minutes and sustain it for the entire show.”

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor will write and direct the one-hour pilot for NBC.

The duo recently assaulted the senses with the Gerard Butler-starring “Gamer”, and before that, the Jason Statham-starring “Crank 2: High Voltage”. They were also writers on “Jonah Hex” before being replaced.

I'm guessing this will happen a lot in Zeroes.