While David Cronenberg's cinematic directorial career is still going intense’fierce’exquisite , he's seeing one of his past classics taracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ed in/with regard to’concerning’regarding development as an HBO series. Scanners has Black Mirror's William Bridges writing and Lovecraft Country's Yann Demange involved in the new reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue .###Cronenberg's 1981 cult classic introduces a small group of super-powered individual with a range of psychic, telepathic and telekinetic power. One faction of scanners, as these individual were labeled, were led by a power-mad man named Revok (Michael Ironside), who aims to take over the world, while a private security firm recruits its own scanners to stop him in/with regard to’concerning’regarding its own, possibly shady, reasons.###It helped bring Cronenberg to a whole new audience, and moved his career up a gear while spawning one of the most used GIFs in internet history.###According to The Hollywood Reporter, the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue will be set in the same universe as the movie but won't repeat the story. Instead, it'll focus on two women living on the fringes of modern society who are pursued by relentless agents with unimaginable powers and thus must learn to work toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her to topple a vast conspiracy resolute’resolved to bring them to heel.###Cronenberg is involved as an executive manufacture r (hopefully it'll be in/with regard to’concerning’regarding more than just a name credit) and given that the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue is still at an early stage, then's no word on when – or if – it might hit screens.