
I’ll never forget seeing the movie as a teenager – my friends and I snuck into the R-rated showing. We were a bunch of sci-fi loving rebels, and the film completely floored us. I even remember trying to hide my tears during Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” which felt surprisingly sad after what we’d just watched. So, when I heard 12 Monkeys was becoming a show on SyFy, I was skeptical. It felt wrong to try and remake such a great film. But it was the early 2010s and TV was changing, so I gave the first four episodes, co-created by Terry Matalas & Travis Fickett, a try. By the end of the first episode, “Atari,” I was completely drawn in. And by the end of the second season, the show had become my second favorite thing called 12 Monkeys.